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2008
In Afghanistan 2 NATO soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed when an explosion hit them during a patrol in eastern Ghazni province. In eastern Kunar province a rocket hit a schoolyard in Asmor district, killing one student and wounding four others. The victims were between eight and 14 years old.
2008
Georgia held parliamentary elections.
2008
India and Pakistan signed a pact in Islamabad granting consular access to prisoners in each other's jails but reported no significant progress in negotiations on the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.
2008
In Indonesia thousands of students took to the streets across the country to protest the government's plan to raise fuel prices.
2008
At least 11 people were killed when gunfire broke out after a roadside bombing in a Shiite militia stronghold in eastern Baghdad near Sadr City, scene of a major military clampdown. The shooting occurred in the Obeidi neighborhood after three roadside bombs targeted joint US-Iraqi troops. An Iraqi television cameraman, Wissam Ali Auda, of Afaq TV, was killed in the fighting. A second journalist was killed north of Baghdad. The bullet-riddled body of Hashim al-Hussein (35), a correspondent for the Sharq newspaper kidnapped a day earlier, was found dumped near the city of Baqouba. A US helicopter strike north of Baghdad killed 8 civilians, including several children. The US military said the assault targeted al-Qaida fighters but acknowledged that children died.
2008
Brian Keenan (66), a commanding figure during the Irish Republican Army's long march from war to peace, died of cancer.
2008
Israel and Syria said they were holding indirect peace talks through Turkish mediators on a dispute that centers on the Golan Heights.
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