Bomb Attacks Shake Afghanistan / US Helicopter Crashes in Iraq / Another Bird Flu Death
More than 20 people are reported to have been killed in two bombings in Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar. In one incident on Monday 20 were reported killed and another 20 injured in a blast in the town of Spin Boldak, close to the border with Pakistan.Full Story
US helicopter crashes in Iraq
A US helicopter has crashed north of Baghdad, with witnesses saying a rocket hit it. One witness said US troops surrounded the crash site and that smoke was rising from the area on Monday near the small town of Mishahda.
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Rice defends US raid in Pakistan
Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, has defended tough US tactics to root out Al-Qaeda fighters on Pakistan's border after a deadly air strike on a village sparked a wave of angry street protests. Rice would not comment on the reported deaths of 18 villagers in a raid said to target Osama bin Laden's deputy. She merely said: "We'll continue to work with the Pakistanis and we'll try to address their concerns."
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Indonesian girl dies of bird flu
A 13-year-old Indonesian girl died of bird flu at the weekend while two of her siblings have tested positive for the H5N1 virus, a health ministry official said, citing the results of local tests. "We found three positive bird flu cases in one family coming from Indramayu, West Java," said Hariadi Wibisono, the ministry's director of control of animal-borne diseases.
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