Turkish poll candidate shot dead
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An independent candidate is shot dead in Istanbul ahead of Sunday's election in Turkey.
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One of the candidates Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi was fielding in the Jan. 30 elections was killed in the southern city of Basra on Tuesday, officials in Baghdad and Basra said.
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Ukrainian Transport Minister Heorhiy Kirpa, a supporter of the trailing candidate in Sunday's presidential election, was found dead in his house from a gunshot wound Monday, a spokesman for the nation's railways said.
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The brother-in-law of the new chief judge in the genocide trial of Saddam Hussein  is shot dead, police say.
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Gunmen killed the deputy governor of Baghdad on his way to work on Monday, Iraqi officials said. Hatim Kamil was assassinated in a drive-by shooting this morning, said Baghdad Governor Ali al-Haidari.
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A Turkish engineer taken hostage in Afghanistan was killed by kidnappers after a police rescue operation ended in tragedy, interior ministry spokesman Lutfullah Mashal told AFP.
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The deputy governor of Baghdad has been assassinated in a drive-by shooting in a southern neighborhood. Unknown insurgents gunned down Hatem Kamel Abdul Fatah on Monday morning while
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Gunmen shot dead a Kenyan opposition politician at his home in the early hours of Tuesday, his Orange Democratic Movement and police said.
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A SENIOR cleric belonging to a Pakistani extremist party was killed today when a man shot him as he answered his door, police and party officials said.
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A senior cleric belonging to a Pakistani extremist party was shot dead when a man opened fire at him as he stood on his front doorstep, police and party officials said.
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KABUL: A Turkish engineer taken hostage in Afghanistan was killed by kidnappers when they were cornered by police mounting a rescue operation, a senior official said on Wednesday.
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Kurdish guerrillas ambushed a Turkish military convoy in southeastern Turkey on Wednesday evening, killing one soldier and injuring another three, military sources said.
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At least three people were shot dead and an unknown number wounded at an election campaign rally for former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif, police said.
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Gunfire erupted outside Congo's election commission headquarters Sunday, killing at least one person as President Joseph Kabila remained short of the majority of votes needed for an outright win in Congo's historic election.
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A suspected Tamil Tiger rebel shot dead a rival Tamil political activist in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo, police said.
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ANKARA, Dec 15  - The Turkish ambassador in Afghanistan has confirmed the death of a Turkish engineer kidnapped Tuesday in Afghanistan&#39;s eastern Kunar province, the Anatolia news agency reported Wednesday.
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A former leader who quietly pressed for Syria to quit Lebanon was killed Monday.