Political volunteer killed in Washington
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A British volunteer for the potential presidential campaign of former Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner was killed in the city&#039;s Georgetown neighborhood by robbers who slashed his throat and tried to rape his female companion, police said.
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A bill that would have given District of Columbia residents their first-ever member of Congress died in the Senate on Tuesday, dashing hopes of finally gaining full voting rights after a 206-year wait.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A doctor helping organize Afghan elections died yesterday along with four other civilians when an explosion tore through their vehicle, police said. He was the first election worker to die in violence since the landmark vote.
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KABUL -- A doctor helping organize Afghan elections died yesterday along with four other civilians when an explosion tore through their vehicle, police said.
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Relatives of a policeman killed in an insurgent attack grieve during his funeral in Tikrit, Iraq, Tuesday Dec. 28, 2004. Twelve policemen died when gunmen attacked the station Tuesday.
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BEIRUT -- A Lebanese lawmaker who had long been critical of the Syrian regime was killed yesterday along with his son and eight people when a bomb exploded near a popular waterfront promenade in Beirut.
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THE AFTERNOON of Election Day in Washington, one of the Dutch journalists in town to cover the vote mentioned to me that there had been a spectacular killing in Amsterdam that morning
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HARARE -- Police killed a protester and arrested the leader of the main opposition party as they broke up a prayer meeting protesting government policies yesterday. Police spokesman Wayne Bvudzijena said one man was fatally shot when 200 opposition party members attacked about 20 policemen. Three policemen were hospitalized with injuries, Bvudzijena told state television. Police said they arrested Morgan ...
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An outspoken ethnic Tamil opposition MP was shot dead during a New Year service at a Hindu temple in the Sri Lankan capital Tuesday, the third assassination of a minority legislator in two years.
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Gunmen killed a U.S. government aid  agency official and his driver in Khartoum on Tuesday, U.S. and  Sudanese officials said.
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A US diplomat in Sudan is killed in a shooting incident in the capital, Khartoum, US officials say.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Gunmen on a motorbike yesterday killed an Afghan women's rights activist who ran an underground school for girls during the Taliban's rule -- the latest victim of increasingly brazen militants targeting government officials and schools.
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A US embassy official was wounded in a gun attack which killed an embassy driver in the Sudanese capital, the embassy said Tuesday.
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A Marine was killed today in Iraq, the U.S. military announced.
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A U.S. Marine was killed in action in Anbar province, west of the Iraqi capital, the military said Sunday.
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Three U.S. service members from the Washington region died in Iraq's volatile Anbar province this week, according to Defense Department statements and a news report today.
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Gunmen killed a representative of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most senior Shiite Muslim cleric, along with the aide's son and four bodyguards in a town south of Baghdad, an official in the cleric's office said Thursday.