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Saturday 4 September 2010
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Saturday 4 September 2010
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 | Petraeus: 'We are in this to win' in Afghanistan Gen. David Petraeus formally assumed command of the 130,000-strong international force in Afghanistan on Sunday, telling NATO and Afghan officials "we are in this to win" despite rising casualties and growing skepticism ... |
President Hamid Karzai has met General David Petraeus in the country's capital Kabul. Petraeus was recently appointed the United States' most senior field ... |  Biden's visit also came amid Iraq's ongoing political deadlock over forming the next government nearly four months after the country's parliamentary polls.... |
Afghan forces during an operation against Taliban militants in Wardak province eliminated 14 militants including their commander Mullah Tawab. | 
The 2008 European champions Spain edged Paraguay 1-0 here on Saturday night to set up a World Cup semifinal clash with European runners-up Germany, who ... |
The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in a press release on Saturday confirmed that troops during an operation killed two civilians ... |  The Netherlands eliminated 10-man Brazil 2-1 in a hot-tempered clash of titans to advance into the World Cup semifinals on Saturday. |
A roadside bomb struck a civilian vehicle in southern Zabul province on Saturday leaving two civilians dead and injuring four others, an official said.... | 
China and Pakistan kicked off a joint anti-terrorism drill in Qingtongxia in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region on Saturday. |
Taliban suicide attackers stormed a four-story house used by an American aid organization in north Afghanistan on Friday, killing four people before dying ... | 
NATO will adopt a document on a new strategic concept at the Lisbon summit in November, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Friday. |
Eight militants were killed in a gunbattle after a suicide car bombing Wednesday at the entrance to an airport outside the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad,... | 
In Cape Town, Spain pulled off a 1-0 win over Portugal spearheaded by Cristiano Ronaldo, the world's most expensive football player. |
Two bomb blasts in Afghanistan left three people including two civilians, dead and injured three others, said a statement issued by Interior Ministry ... | 
Turkey has closed its airspace to Israeli military aircraft, citing a raid on Gaza-bound aid ships last month by Israeli commandos which left eight Turks ... |
Unknown armed men attacked a United Nations vehicle in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Tuesday, a private television channel reported. | 
General Stanley McChrystal, who was fired last week as the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, plans to retire, an army spokesman said Monday. |
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