Last king of Afghanistan dies at 92
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Mohammad Zahir Shah, the last king of Afghanistan who returned from three decades of exile to bless his war-battered country's fragile course toward democracy, died Monday, President Hamid Karzai said. He was 92.
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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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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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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- There&#39;s been a death of a leader in the Arab world. State-run media say the president of the United Arab Emirates has died.
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Officials in Afghanistan say security forces have killed a senior Taliban commander in southern Afghanistan. Government officials say Maulvi Abdul Ghaffar and two followers died in a gunbattle late Saturday in a village in the central province of Uruzgan.
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WANA, Pakistan  - Masked gunmen killed an ethnic  Pashtun politician known as a close friend of Afghan President  Hamid Karzai in a Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan  border on Wednesday, officials said.
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Two British soldiers who died fighting the Taleban in southern Afghanistan are named.
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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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Prince Bernhard, one of the most charismatic members of the Dutch royal family, dies at the age of 93.
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A senior Al-Qaeda leader in  Afghanistan, described by Western authorities as one of Osama  bin Laden's top six lieutenants, has been killed, U.S.  officials and an al-Qaeda-linked Web site said on Thursday.
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The former dictator, who died Sunday, ruled with a strong hand for 32 years.
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A Turkish engineer taken hostage in Afghanistan was killed by kidnappers after a police rescue operation ended in tragedy, interior ministry spokesman Lutfullah Mashal told AFP.
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Former King Mohammad Zahir Shah, whose 40-year reign until his exile in 1973 coincided with one of the most peaceful periods in Afghanistan's recent history, died on Monday, aged 92.
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OTTAWA/KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - Afghan President   Hamid Karzai urged Canada to stay the course in his war-torn   country, where 19 people were killed on Friday by Taliban   forces who have also targeted foreign peacekeepers.
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A Royal Marine killed in a gun battle with Taleban forces in Afghanistan was aged 23 and from Surrey.
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Afghanistan's presidential vote count neared its end with Hamid Karzai edging closer to victory, but a weekend suicide blast in Kabul offered a deadly reminder of the dangers facing the war-weary nation.
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The king is dead; long live the king. That monarchist continuum has found an echo in contemporary China. In a process of seamless succession, Hu Jin Tao, till now the head of state of China and secretary-general