Last king of Afghanistan dies, aged 92
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Former Afghan King Mohammad Zahir Shah, whose 40-year reign coincided with one of the most peaceful periods in the country's recent history, died on Monday, aged 92.
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Princess Alice, the Royal aunt who lived through the abdication crisis, two world wars and the turn of the millennium has died at the age of 102, the oldest member of the British royal family in history.
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Senior figure and leader of Taliban in Helmand province dies of injuries in south-west Pakistan
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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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A senior al-Qaeda leader in Afghanistan, Abu Laith al-Libi, has been killed, senior Western officials say.
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A suicide bomber killed the governor of Afghanistan's southeastern Paktia province today, the Interior Ministry said. The attack follows a dramatic rise in Taliban-led violence in Afghanistan.
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United Arab Emirates President and ruler of Abu Dhabi Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nayhan died Tuesday, official television reports. He was 86.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- In a further assault on the embattled Afghan government, a suicide bomber killed six people yesterday at the funeral of a provincial governor who was assassinated by the Taliban. Four senior Cabinet ministers escaped injury.
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A Taliban leader has been killed in Afghanistan, the country's government said today, as the deaths of a British soldier and a civilian translator were confirmed after an explosion in the country's south.
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The reign of one of Afghanistan&#39;s most powerful and most colourful warlords appeared to have ended in chaos yesterday after a mob of his supporters clashed with American troops and set
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Princess Galyani Vadhana, the elder sister of Thailand's much-loved monarch, dies of cancer at the age of 84.
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The main rival of President Hamid Karzai has conceded defeat in Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election with less than six per cent of the vote left to be counted.
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Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al-Nahyan, the Ruler of Abu Dhabi who died on Tuesday aged 86, was President of the United Arab Emirates and a moderate but visionary leader of his desert people.
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A British soldier was killed in Afghanistan on Monday, the Ministry of Defence said.
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A soldier has been killed in Helmand province, Afghanistan, says the Ministry of Defence.
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SALAR HILL, Afghanistan  - The burial place of  Afghanistan's greatest resistance hero is a desolate, windswept  hill deep in the Panjsher Valley.
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US President George W. Bush mourned Afghanistan&#39;s last king Mohammed Zahir Shah, who died Monday aged 92, as a &quot;monumental figure&quot; in his country&#39;s history.