Gunman kills Pakistani minister
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A Pakistani provincial government minister is shot dead as she prepares to address a political meeting.
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Gunmen fired at the house of a Hamas Cabinet minister, breaking windows, but causing no injuries, the politician said Saturday.
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A suspected Islamic militant has shot dead a female provincial minister known for promoting women's rights at a political meeting in central Pakistan.
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A Sri Lankan government minister died Tuesday after being wounded by a roadside bomb outside the capital
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Lebanon's Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel was assassinated near Beirut on Tuesday, security sources said.
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Pakistani police Wednesday shot dead a  suspected Islamic militant wanted in connection with the 2002  abduction and killing of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl, police  said.
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A suicide bomb kills An Afghan provincial governor, the highest-ranking official to die in the insurgency.
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Four people were shot dead at a campaign rally for former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday, police said, and Sharif's party blamed rival supporters of President Pervez Musharraf.
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Gunmen have killed a senior official in Iraq&#39;s communication ministry as he was driving to work in central Baghdad. Kassim Imhawi was hit by gunmen who pulled up beside him as he travelled into the city from a western suburb.
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Pakistan's security forces on Sunday  shot dead a militant said to have plotted an attempt to  assassinate President Pervez Musharraf and to have had a hand  in the killing of a U.S. journalist, the information minister  said.
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A suicide attacker detonated a bomb early Friday at a residential compound of Pakistan's former interior minister as he received visitors on an Islamic holiday, killing at least eight people and wounding dozens, police said.
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GAZA CITY -- Gunmen fired on the Palestinian foreign minister's convoy yesterday, and militants launched mortar shells at President Mahmoud Abbas's office in a daylong wave of factional violence that killed three people.
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A Sri Lankan government minister was killed in a powerful roadside bomb attack by suspected Tamil Tiger rebels, followed hours later by a powerful blast in the heart of the capital Colombo, police said.
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BAGHDAD A senior Oil Ministry official was killed Wednesday by gunmen on his way to work, the ministry&#39;s spokesman said. The official, Hussein Ali al-Fattal, director general of the ministry&#39;s oil byproducts
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Gunmen on Tuesday assassinated Lebanese Christian cabinet minister Pierre Gemayel, an outspoken critic of Syria, plunging Lebanon deeper into a crisis over ties with its dominant neighbor.
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Pakistani paramilitary forces killed one of the most wanted militants in the country Sunday, a government official said. Amjad Hussain Farooqi was killed in an early morning raid
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A senior official in Iraq's  Communications Ministry was shot dead as he was driving to work  in Baghdad on Thursday, a source at the ministry said.