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Afghan and NATO officials say a suicide bombing in eastern Afghanistan killed at least one Afghan and wounded several others. Officials say a car exploded near an American military base in Khost City near the border with Pakistan. The attack follows two suicide bombings Saturday that killed six people. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the first attack which took place in Kabul near an American military base and the German embassy. Four ugg boots Afghan civilians and one American soldier were killed. The second explosion on Saturday near a group of NATO military vehicles in eastern Nangarhar province killed one Afghan. African leaders have begun new power-sharing talks with Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and ugg boots cheap opposition parties in Harare, the capital city of Zimbabwe. South African President Kgalema Motlanthe and Armando Guebuza President of Mozambique are organizing the discussions along with Thabo Mbeki, South Africa's former president. Mr. Mugabe is meeting with opposition leaders to try to finalize a new power-sharing agreement. On Sunday, the nike sb brazil government's Sunday Mail newspaper reported that Mr. Mugabe is threatening to end the talks unless the opposition agrees to his demands on Monday. Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai says all of his party's disagreements with President Mugabe must be resolved before it joins a unity government.
 

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A ceasefire in the Gaza Strip appears to be working, ending a three-week offensive by Israel against Hamas fighters. Israel is slowly withdrawing from Palestinian territory. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says Israel's offensive in Gaza has achieved its goals. He said he wants Israeli troops to leave Gaza as soon as possible. Hamas uggs nederland leaders say Israeli forces must leave in one week. Hamas says it lost 48 fighters and killed at least 80 Israeli soldiers during the fighting. The numbers differ from those provided by both Israeli and Palestinian ugg boots türkiye health officials in Gaza. Israel says it killed more than 500 Hamas members and lost ten Israeli soldiers. Palestinian officials say at least 1, 200 Palestinians died, about half were civilians. On the day before he is sworn in as the first African-American president of the United States, Barack Obama will honor ugg france the late Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King. Monday is a holiday celebrating Dr. King's birthday. Local leaders around the United States have been organizing events to serve their communities, including cleaning public areas and making gifts for American troops. Mr. Obama will announce a new Internet website called usaservice. org where people can find ways to help their communities.



Russian news reports say Prime Minister Vladimir Putin held new talks with the European Union on Monday. He wanted to remove any problems that could delay a deal to begin sending Russian natural gas to Europe again. The reports say Mr. Putin spoke by telephone with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso to talk about legal details. Russia stopped to shipping gas through Ukraine to Western Europe almost ugg boots two weeks ago after a price dispute with Ukraine. Mr. Putin called Mr. Barroso while Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko flew to Russia to sign the agreement. Officials from both countries say gas will flow as soon as the agreement is signed. Turkey is threatening to reconsider its support for a pipeline that would send gas ugg boots cheap supplies through Turkey to Europe without going through Russia. Turkey says it will make the move if talks about joining the European Union are blocked. The proposed Nabucco pipeline is important to Europe because it would reduce European dependence on Russian gas. The threat comes after a gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine cut fuel supplies to much of Europe. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said urkey will reconsider the gas agreement if nike sb brazil energy issues are not discussed as part of the EU admission talks. EU member Cyprus objected to including energy issues in talks about Turkey's admission to the EU.

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