Afghans Lionize Masood on Anniversary of His Death
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More than 20,000 Afghans gathered in Kabul on Wednesday to remember Northern Alliance military commander Ahmad Shah Masood, slain by al Qaeda operatives two days before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
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As many as 30,000 Bangladeshis joined the funeral in the capital, Dhaka, of a leader of the opposition Awami League who died of injuries sustained in Saturday&#39;s grenade attack on a political rally, the British Broadcasting Corp.
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Thousands of Lebanese gathered Wednesday at the grave of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri to mark the second anniversary of his assassination as the government deployed hundreds of troops a day after bus bombings killed three people.
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TORONTO, Sept. 11 -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper sought to bolster flagging public support for the five-year-old war in Afghanistan, where 32 Canadian soldiers have been killed.
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About 30,000 Afghans rallied at what was  once a Taliban execution center in Kabul on Friday to press  President Hamid Karzai to approve a blanket amnesty for 25  years of war crimes.
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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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Police tightened security and searched cars entering Kabul on Friday as thousands of former mujahedeen gathered for a mass rally to support a proposed amnesty for Afghans suspected of war crimes during a quarter-century of fighting, officials said.
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Thousands rally in the Afghan capital Kabul to voice support for a controversial proposed war crimes amnesty.
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Thousands of U.S. troops in Afghanistan  may have failed to catch Osama bin Laden but they are credited  with encouraging millions of Afghans to register for the  country's historic election in October.
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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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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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Afghanistan&#39;s last king, Mohammed Zahir Shah, died in Kabul on Monday aged 92, mourned by the war-torn country where he spent his final years after returning from three decades of exile.
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SAKYAN, Afghanistan  - Afghan village elder Noor Mohammad stroked his white beard as he listened to a local government chief appeal for help to rebuild the economy of this snow-bound plateau shattered by war and the fight with the Taliban.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai campaigned on Tuesday for the first time since an assassination attempt last month, telling cheering supporters a historic vote
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Afghanistan's former king honored Thursday U.N. workers held hostage for nearly a month after helping run the country's first free elections, while the United Nations urged a full investigation of the kidnapping.
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takes an oath together with Vice President Ahmad Zia Masoud (L) and Vice President Abdul Karim Khalili during the inauguration in Kabul&#39;s Presidential Palace, Afghanistan, Dec. 7, 2004.
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Security has been boosted in the Afghan capital for commemorations of the fifth anniversary of the killing of anti-Taliban resistance hero Ahmed Shah Massoud, after a deadly suicide blast.