Blasts kills top Afghan official
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The deputy governor of Afghanistan's Helmand province is killed in a bomb attack on a mosque.
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MIRANSHAH, Pakistan  - At least seven people, including three policemen, were killed in two separate blasts in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, one of them a suicide bomb attack on a senior government official.
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At least 15 people have been killed in  explosions in an upscale district of the Afghan capital Kabul  and at a school in a southeastern province where nine children  died, officials said Sunday.
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A top Somali military official is killed by a landmine placed under his chair by an Islamist group.
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A bomb planted on a car carrying an Interior Ministry official exploded Sunday, killing the official and wounding two police officers who were accompanying him, a ministry official said.
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A suicide bomber killed a provincial governor along with his bodyguard and his nephew Sunday in eastern Afghanistan, and the U.S. military warned that a suicide bombing cell is targeting foreign troops in Kabul.
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A bomb targeting a provincial police chief's vehicle in western Afghanistan killed two people and wounded 33 Thursday while authorities found the bullet-riddled body of a kidnapped doctor.
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A suicide bomber in police uniform killed a top police official in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Thursday as he toured the site of a blast a day earlier that killed 36 people and wounded scores, police said.
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An explosion outside a US-based security firm that has been providing security for President Hamid Karzai tore through the building in downtown Kabul, killing at least seven people, the president&#39;s office said.
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An official at Iraq&#39;s Science and Technology Ministry along with a female civil servant were shot dead in Baghdad, where two car bombs also exploded as insurgents stepped up attacks on Iraqis working with US forces, officials said.
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KABUL : Two people were killed in a bomb blast at a rally for Afghan President Hamid Karzai&#39;s running mate, the final day of campaigning for landmark elections.
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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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Somali gunmen shot dead a senior  government official in a troubled Mogadishu district and a  teenager died when munitions left behind by African Union  peacekeepers exploded, officials said on Tuesday.
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A respected provincial governor in eastern Afghanistan was killed along with his nephew and chief bodyguard when a suicide attacker blew himself up as the men left the governor's office.
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A blast inside an Iraqi ministry during a ceremony attended by Vice President Adel Abdul-Mahdi killed six people on Monday but the Shi'ite vice president and other senior officials were unhurt, witnesses and police said.
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Seven people, including two US citizens, were killed when a truck bomb exploded in downtown Kabul just weeks ahead of Afghanistan's landmark presidential elections, the government said.
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A powerful bomb killed a senior Lebanese intelligence official and at least four other people in an eastern suburb of Beirut on Friday, security officials said.