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Bomb blast kills 20 Afghan civilians in southeast 

Reuters
By Jonathon Burch
19/01/2011

Twenty Afghan civilians, including 13 children, were killed by a roadside bomb in southeastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, a senior official said, in the country’s deadliest insurgent attack in nearly six months. (more…)

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Since January 2010, at least 964 civilians have been killed and 2,717 wounded in armed conflicts or in random shootings in residential neighborhoods, as reported by the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP). “While the atrocious attack by Islamic rebels in which members of the Somali parliament were killed kindles outrage around world, the daily suffering of the civilian population in Somalia attracts hardly any attention,” notes Ulrich Delius, head of the Africa section at the STP on Tuesday in Göttingen. “The level of indifference displayed by the international community in the face of systematic violations of international humanitarian law in Somalia is shocking.” (more…)

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Source: AFP
August 10, 2010

The number of civilian casualties in the Afghan war rose by a third in the first six months of 2010, with insurgents killing seven times more civilians than NATO-led troops, a UN report says. (more…)

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By Reuters

May 3 (Reuters) – Following are security developments in Iraq at 1210 GMT on Monday.

SHIRQAT – A parked car bomb killed three people and wounded two in the town of Shirqat, 300 km (190 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. (more…)

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By BBC News

At least one person has been killed in a suicide bomb attack outside a Nato base in Khost province in south-eastern Afghanistan, police say. (more…)

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