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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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  • Australian court upholds sex slave convictions
  • Researchers develop toy-tool to distract infant burn victims from pain
  • Australian youths like to blog rather than vote
  • PML-Q sees possibility of understanding with PML-N
  • India, ASEAN conclude negotiation on Free Trade Agreement

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  • Air Canada to provide in-flight internet service
  • Major Travel Agents turn their Back on Ryanair Following a Screenscraping crackdown
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  • Budget airline Zoom grounds flights, blaming fuel price rises

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