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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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  • Mexico cracks down on corrupt police
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  • Smith making up ground in Tampa

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  • Malaysia blocks access to popular news website
  • Microsoft unveils Internet Explorer 8, its response to Firefox
  • Air Canada to provide in-flight internet service
  • The time for Internet TV may be round the corner finally
  • War between US State Dept, White House comes to the fore with Boucher
  • Judge lets privacy advocate keep Social Security numbers on Web site

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    13 dead, 6,000 displaced by hurricane in Hispaniola
    Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) Aug 28 (DPA) At least 13 people were killed and more than 6,000 displaced as Hurricane Gustav hit the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, authorities in Haiti and the Dominican Republic have...

    Gustav kills 22 in Caribbean
    Tropical Storm Gustav rumbled on Thursday toward Jamaica and Cuba and threatened to take hurricane force winds to Louisiana after leaving 22 people dead in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The...

    Killer Caribbean storm picks up strength again
    Tropical storm Gustav continued its destructive sweep across the Caribbean today, this time heading for Jamaica and the wealthy banking enclave of the Cayman Isles. Its maximum...

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    No charges for Obama assassination plotters
    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....

    Two teenage boys hanged in Iran
    Iran has executed two youths who were convicted of murder when they were fifteen years of...

    Obama speech expected to focus on economics
    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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    Wall Street notches up solid gains
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