CONGO: Election strife
KINSHASA (AP): President Joseph Kabila's bodyguards fought deadly gun battles with army troops loyal to his main campaign rival yesterday outside the offices where results from Congo's historic elections were to be announced.
AFGANISTAN: Taliban militants killed in gunfight
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP): Afghan and NATO forces battled Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan's volatile south with rockets, artillery and air strikes killing 71 militants yesterday in one of the country's bloodiest clashes in five years.
GERMANY: Train bomb plot fizzles - Police detain lebanese student
BERLIN (Reuters): German politicians warned at the weekend of a growing terrorism threat and called for new measures to counter it after authorities said a plot to blow up trains had failed only because the crude bombs did not go off.
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