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"All efforts of the Afghan government to avoid civilian casualties have not yielded any positive results and our innocent countrymen are still killed in anti-terrorism operations."
Afghan President Hamid Karzai
Karzai was condemning the killing of 76 civilians, mostly children, by a US airstrike in western Afghanistan.

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Seniors
  • Michael Phelps to host SNL
  • Mental skills decline years before death, even in absence of dementia
  • Not Just an Old Person
  • Hospitals and care homes ignoring older people
  • More Seniors in Motion ; Communitys Expansion Puts Focus on Exercise

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  • Seagate to Participate in Upcoming Investor Conference
  • FTC denied hearing in Rambus fight
  • HP Canada and Lester B. Pearson School Board to Offer New Mobile Technology to Kindergarten Classes for four-year-olds
  • Unisys back in the competition for TSA contract

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    Ex-South Philadelphia High teacher gets 10 to 20 years for sex with student, 14
    A 30-year-old former South Philadelphia High School teacher was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in state prison yesterday for having sex earlier this year with a 14-year-old girl. Joshua Uhrich was a...

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    A surging number of Philadelphia schools have been labeled "persistently dangerous" - so unsafe that parents have a right to send their children elsewhere. The new list, released yesterday...

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    No charges for Obama assassination plotters
    Three white supremacists with a sniper rifle and high on drugs who were arrested near the Democratic convention in Denver will not face charges even though officials believe that they wanted to assassinate Barack Obama....

    Two teenage boys hanged in Iran
    Iran has executed two youths who were convicted of murder when they were fifteen years of...

    Obama speech expected to focus on economics
    Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has insisted that he does not want to dazzle a TV audience estimated to be in the tens of millions with "a bunch of a high-flying rhetoric", but instead, intends to focus on the kitchen-table economic issues facing American...

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