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A suicide attack targeting a NATO-Afghan border police compound in eastern Afghanistan killed two foreign soldiers and wounded several others, the military alliance said Wednesday.

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File-sharing sanctions ‘unfair’ (BBC News)

Illegal file-sharers should be fined, rather than have their internet connection cut off, says the boss of BT.

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In the next stage in the Afghanistan war, coalition forces are expected to build up gradually on the outskirts of the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, perhaps for months. That strategy departs from the one executed in the Marjah offensive, in which troops entered quickly.

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Afghanistan war: Fight for Kandahar won’t be like fight for Marjah (The Christian Science Monitor)

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The operation that American and coalition forces are planning for Kandahar in southern Afghanistan won’t look like D-Day, the top commander there said Tuesday.

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The defense secretary aimed to show progress in the expanded war against insurgents in south Afghanistan. Now Zad was the scene of first significant military push following President Obama’s announcement in early December that he would add 30,000 troops atop 17,000 reinforcements he had already sent into the flagging war.

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Gates Tours ‘Reborn’ Town In Southern Afghanistan (NPR)

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A homicide attack Tuesday on NATO forces in eastern Afghanistan killed two international service members, the military alliance said.

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Bomb Attack Kills 2 NATO Troops in Afghanistan (Fox News)

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to head to Afghanistan on Wednesday, his first trip to Tehran’s eastern neighbor since the re-election last August of his counterpart Hamid Karzai.

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Iranian President Ahmadinejad to Visit Afghanistan (Fox News)

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If you read this site, you probably know about legal onlinemusic services like Spotify, Pandora or Last.fm or Napster… but a stunning percentage of people don’t. They believe that the only way to get music online is illegally: the only source they know of for downloadable music is Bittorrent. Their ignorance of the legal online

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Survey: 40% of music lovers don’t know about legal online music (Geek.com)

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Two NATO soldiers were killed Tuesday when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a military base in Afghanistan, the alliance and local government sources said.

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Two NATO soldiers killed in eastern Afghanistan (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

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A suicide attack Tuesday on NATO forces in eastern Afghanistan killed two international service members, the military alliance said.

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Suicide attack kills 2 NATO troops in Afghanistan (AP via Yahoo! News)

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