The provincial minister of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province came under attack Monday when assailants opened fire on his convoy, shattering his windshield, police said.
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The suicide bombing that killed 13 people in a NATO convoy on Saturday was the work of the Pakistan-based Haqqani network, an Afghan official said Monday.
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The world's population hits 7 billion this week, but Ziona, the patriarch of what may be the biggest family in the world, is not bothered.
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Worries about high tides overwhelming parts of Thailand in recent days have morphed into fears about water- and insect-borne diseases in the flood-ravaged country.
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Singapore has come to rely so much on its imported help it's struggling to balance the demands of its local population with criticism that it's doing too little to protect workers' rights.
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