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VIDEO: Iran call for Hajj investigation September 26, 2015
Iranian President Hassan Rouhan calls for an investigation into the stampede at the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca.
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VIDEO: Cold weather hits migrants on the move September 26, 2015
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VIDEO: Pope stops car to bless disabled child September 26, 2015
Pope Francis stops his car as it leaves Philadelphia airport to bless a child in a wheelchair.
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VIDEO: Bangkok bomb suspect re-enacts attack September 26, 2015
Two suspects in the bombing of the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Thailand are forced to re-enact their alleged role in the attack.
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VIDEO: Migrants continue to enter Hungary September 26, 2015
More than 8,000 migrants and refugees entered Hungary from Croatia on Friday, according to police figures.
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VIDEO: War crimes trial for mausoleum suspect September 26, 2015
A suspected Islamist militant accused of destroying historic monuments in the city of Timbuktu in Mali is to face charges of war crimes.
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VIDEO: Switzerland halts diesel VW sales September 26, 2015
Switzerland temporarily bans the sale of some Volkswagen diesel-engine models in the wake of the emissions-rigging scandal in the US.
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VIDEO: Greek coastguard: Migrant boats 'unsafe' September 26, 2015
Greek coastguard on Lesbos, Antonios Sofiadelis, explains why so many migrants are dying on a short crossing that should be simple and safe.
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VIDEO: Birth simulator helps Zambia midwives September 26, 2015
Nomsa Maseko reports from Zambia, where it is hoped a birth simulator being used to train midwives will translate into lives saved in childbirth.
2 MORE U.S SOLDIERS SHOT BY AFGAN COLLEAGUE
A rogue Afghan border policeman has shot dead, on Monday 04/04/2011, two U.S soldiers from NATO-ISAF in northern Faryab province. In the last incident of its kind, one of many, a rogue Afghan soldier has killed a German soldier with NATO-ISAF force in the province of Baghlan, on Friday 02/18/2011 (see – Baghlan 02.18.11).
Abdul Sattar Bariz, the deputy governor of the province, said the victims were American soldiers, killed at a checkpoint by a member of the Afghan Border Police. “He killed the two trainers while they were teaching them, in Faryab city,” Bariz told the Reuters news agency by telephone.NATO-ISAF said it was investigating the deaths.
“According to initial reporting, an individual in an Afghan Border Police uniform fired on the ISAF members inside a compound. The individual who fired the shots fled the scene,” an ISAF statement said.
On a number of previous occasions, members or purported members of the Afghan security forces have killed their foreign counterparts.
There are nearly 140,000 international troops, mostly NATO forces deployed under USA command, in Afghanistan, tasked to defeat a Taliban-led insurgency.
Meanwhile, two suicide bombers were killed as they were planning to attack a court building in Lashkar Gah city, the capital of Helmand, on Monday. One of the suicide bombers was shot dead by the police while the other blew himself up.
And earlier on Monday, protesters scuffled with police, as more than 1,000 Afghans protested for a fourth day to denounce the burning of a Quran by by Florida pastor Terry Jones, witnesses said. The violence has killed at least 22, including seven foreign UN staff (see – Mazar 04.01.11), and wounded nearly 140 other people.
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01/2011-NATO SOLDIER KILLED BY AFGHAN COLLEAGUE
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10/2010 -TALIBAN INFILTARTED THE AFGHAN ARMY
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08/2010 -AN AFGHAN RECRUIT KILLED 2 SPANIARDS
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