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...Perhaps it should. While the death toll was low compared with other recent attacks, the bomber - Shamsullah Rehman, according to the Taliban spokesman who took credit for the blast - was able to penetrate the very center of Kabul. He detonated his Toyota Corolla in front of the German embassy and across the street from a U.S. military base on one of the most well-guarded roads in the capital. The attack took place less than two months after a similar bombing in front of the U.S. embassy that killed four, and just over a year after an audacious commando-style...
...than he devoted to the story of the father of a Marine killed in Iraq. He could hardly be accused of making a big deal about nonwar matters when he summed up the current crisis in a single sentence: "These are very tough times for hardworking families, but the toll would be far worse if we had not acted...
...Airline disasters may grab the front-page headlines, but in Asia, ferry accidents are more common - and deadlier. Last year, nearly 1,500 people perished in nine major ferry accidents in the region. The death toll for airline crashes in Asia was 93 in four incidents. Last year's biggest ferry disaster occurred on June 21 in the Philippines, when the MV Princess of the Stars foundered and capsized, taking almost 800 lives. More people died in that accident than in the largest air-travel disaster in history - the 1977 runway collision between two 747s in Tenerife, Spain, which killed...
...what he called the "unbearable" conflict in Gaza. Diplomatic niceties were not much in evidence, however. The shelling puts a further strain on already tense relations between the U.N. and Israel. Relief officials of the world body in Gaza have strongly criticized the Israeli action for its humanitarian toll, and Israelis are generally suspicious of an organization they accuse of long-standing bias toward the Palestinians...
...Palestinians say more than a dozen civilians died in the fighting on Thursday, pushing the death toll to over 1,060. Witnesses described thousands of families carrying babies and pushing their elderly in wheelchairs to flee Israeli tanks. Civilians in the densely packed slice of land carpeted with teeming slums are finding themselves with no safe places of refuge as the Israelis tighten their grip. TIME correspondent Azmy Keshawi recounted the scene in his neighborhood: "We knew that an Israeli sniper was on top of the next-door apartment building. As one of our neighbors tried to leave the building...