Afghan governor survives bomb attack
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The governor of an important and volatile southern province in Afghanistan escaped an apparent assassination attempt Monday after a bomb exploded by his vehicle convoy, officials said.
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TIKRIT, Iraq  - The governor of Iraq's Salahuddin province escaped an assassination attempt on Monday that, if successful, would have made him the third regional governor to be killed this month, police said.
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A suicide bomb kills An Afghan provincial governor, the highest-ranking official to die in the insurgency.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum escaped unhurt yesterday from a suicide bomb attack that injured more than 20 people gathered for prayers in his northern hometown of Sheberghan.
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A suicide bomber has blown himself up at a governor's house in southern Afghanistan, killing eight people, in the latest bloodshed linked to a spiralling Taliban insurgency.
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Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf escaped unhurt from a mortar attack on his official residence in the capital on Saturday, hours after returning to Mogadishu from an overseas trip, one of his aides said.
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Iraqi environment minister Mishkat Moumin said she survived a suicide car bomb attack in Baghdad on Tuesday that killed four of her bodyguards.
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An Afghan vice president survived an  assassination attempt Monday when a remotely controlled device  was detonated near his convoy, while two soldiers from the  U.S.-led coalition were killed in a separate gunbattle.
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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, Sept. 26 -- A Taliban suicide bomber killed 18 people outside a provincial governor's compound Tuesday, including several Muslim pilgrims set to travel to Mecca. It was the latest in a series of attacks directed at senior figures in President Hamid Karzai's U.S.-backed...
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Somalian Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi survived a suicide vehicle bomb blast that heavily damaged his home Sunday, his spokesman said.
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A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded mosque in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province on Thursday, killing its deputy governor and five other people, officials said.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai escapes unhurt after the Taleban fire rockets at a meeting he was addressing.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai&#39;s running mate for a historic presidential election narrowly escaped a bomb set off by Taliban guerrillas as the campaign closed on Wednesday.
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An Afghan vice president on Monday escaped a bomb attack, which slightly injured his driver, while travelling in north-east Afghanistan.
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Iraqi environment minister Mishkat  Moumin said she survived a suicide car bomb attack in Baghdad  on Tuesday that killed four of her bodyguards.
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An Afghan vice president survived an assassination attempt Monday when a remotely controlled device was detonated near his convoy, while two soldiers from the US-led coalition were killed in a separate gunbattle.
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TANI, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber struck Monday at a funeral for a provincial governor assassinated by the Taliban a day earlier, and four senior members of the government at the service escaped unhurt, officials and witnesses said. Five people were killed and at least 30 wounded.