Last king of Afghanistan dies at 92
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Afghanistan's former King Mohammad Zahir Shah, whose 40-year reign coincided with one of the most peaceful periods in the country's history, died on Monday aged 92.
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The president of the United Arab Emirates, who helped forge a federation from seven Persian Gulf states and ruled it since its creation, has died, Abu Dhabi TV said.
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SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan  - Afghanistan's Taliban movement has freed four local health ministry officials in exchange for the remains of its slain commander, Mullah Dadullah, a purported Taliban spokesman said on Thursday. Western and Afghan forces killed Dadullah in a clash last month, dealing a heavy blow to the Islamist insurgents, and his body was buried in an undisclosed location in southern Kandahar province, scene of some of the heaviest fighting this year.
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The Afghan government on Saturday announced the removal of the powerful governor of Herat, in western Afghanistan, one of the country&#39;s longest standing warlords.
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A doctor helping organise Afghan elections died on Monday along with four other civilians when an explosion tore through their vehicle, police said.
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A British soldier has died in Helmand province of Afghanistan, says the Ministry of Defence.
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Two people were reported killed in a protest over Afghan President Karzai&#39;s decision to replace a powerful provincial governor.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai dodged death three weeks ago when Taliban fighters fired a rocket at him in Gardez. Yesterday, his running mate in Saturday&#39;s national election, Ahmad Zia Masood, barely survived a Taliban bomb in Faizabad.
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The last king of Afghanistan, Mohammad Zahir Shah, was buried on Tuesday at a state funeral where thousands bid farewell to the monarch remembered for his peaceful reign who became known as the "father of the nation".
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Africa's longest serving ruler, President Gnassingbe Eyadema of Togo, died on Saturday at the age of 69, after ruling his small West African country for 38 years, the government said in a statement.
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LONDON - Princess Alice, aunt of the Queen and the oldest member of the Royal Family, has died, Buckingham Palace said Saturday. The palace said the princess died peacefully in her sleep Friday with her family around her.
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One of the Taleban fighters who masterminded the kidnapping of 23 South Koreans in July has been killed, Afghan officials say.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Afghan security forces killed a senior Taliban commander and two of his comrades in a raid in southern Afghanistan, an official said Sunday.    Maulvi Abdul Ghaffar, reportedly a former inmate at the U.S...
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KABUL : Afghanistan&#39;s presidential vote count neared its end with Hamid Karzai edging closer to victory, but a weekend suicide blast in Kabul offered a deadly reminder of the dangers facing the war-weary nation.
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Mohammad Zahir Shah, the last king of Afghanistan who returned from three decades of exile to bless his war-battered country's fragile course toward democracy, died Monday, President Hamid Karzai said. He was 92.
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WANA, Pakistan  - Masked gunmen killed an ethnic  Pashtun politician known as a close friend of Afghan President  Hamid Karzai in a Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan  border on Wednesday, officials said.
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A UK soldier dies in an attack in Afghanistan, as  the 14 servicemen killed in an air crash are mourned.