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"All efforts of the Afghan government to avoid civilian casualties have not yielded any positive results and our innocent countrymen are still killed in anti-terrorism operations."
Afghan President Hamid Karzai
Karzai was condemning the killing of 76 civilians, mostly children, by a US airstrike in western Afghanistan.

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National
  • Obama voted in by delegates
  • Obama makes history with Democratic nomination
  • 10 million take pain killers in US every week
  • US soldiers increasingly exposed to migraine
  • Obama - candidate of change offers continuity to India

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  • Biden takes vice presidential nod; Obama shows up on stage
  • McCain campaign mocks Obama
  • George Michael makes acting debut with self-portrayal in
  • Kurt Browning jumps into job as Walk of Fame host
  • Spamalot Will Welcome a New King in September
  • Mason Jennings On Mountain Stage

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    Putin says Bush orchestrated Georgia crisis
    Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused the United States of orchestrating the Georgian crisis to benefit one of the presidential candidates, a claim the White House calls 'patently...

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    Three white supremacists with a sniper rifle and high on drugs who were arrested near the Democratic convention in Denver will not face charges even though officials believe that they wanted to assassinate Barack Obama....

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    Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has insisted that he does not want to dazzle a TV audience estimated to be in the tens of millions with "a bunch of a high-flying rhetoric", but instead, intends to focus on the kitchen-table economic issues facing American...

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  • Air Canada to provide in-flight internet service
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    Space
  • Computer virus in space - NASA astronauts get hit
  • Minimum mass for galaxies discovered to be 10 million times the mass of the sun
  • Collision of galaxy clusters provides striking evidence for dark matter
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