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AFGHANISTAN
Turkish engineer, Afghan soldier killed
KANDAHAR -- Suspected Taliban gunmen killed a Turkish engineer and an Afghan soldier yesterday after stopping their car along a main road linking the capital with the turbulent south, a local army commander and Turkish officials said.
Another Turkish engineer and the car's driver were abducted. The attack occurred in the early afternoon along the Kabul-Kandahar highway in the district of Shahjoy, in Zabul province.
Turkish and Indian engineers involved in a project to repave the Kabul-Kandahar highway have been abducted several times in the past.
LIBERIA
U.S. seeks freeze of Taylor's assets
NEW YORK -- Washington yesterday accused exiled Liberian President Charles Taylor of continuing to undermine West African peace and stability from his new home in Nigeria and asked the United Nations to freeze his assets.
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