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A US soldier came out of his base in southern Afghanistan today and started shooting Afghan civilians, the provincial governor said.

An outspoken female politicians was verbally and physically attacked by her colleagues after saying on the parliament floor that some of Afghanistan’s mujahedeen leaders were criminals who shouldn’t now be lawmakers, officials said today.