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Published 06/25/2009 by AFP via Yahoo!

Soldiers, two dozen militants killed in Afghanistan

KABUL (AFP) Troops killed at least two dozen militants in the run up to August elections in Afghanistan as separate insurgent bomb attacks killed an Afghan and a NATO soldier, authorities said Thursday.

The deaths come with violence at a peak since the Taliban regime was ousted...

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