National & World News Archive August 2006
Flemish School Bans French
Loud Sigh of Relief As Scream is Recovered
$5bn for Piece of Low-rent Manhattan
Fugitive Sect Leader's Reign of Fear Ended By Traffic Violation
Fewer Tramps, More Plumbers: St Petersburg Goes European
£17m of Taxpayers' Money for Eu Interpreters Not Needed
Disgraced Juppé to Return to Politics
Fugitive Mormon Leader's Reign of Fear Ended By Traffic Violation
A Pleasant Meal, and Then the Horror
Crash Pilot 'confused By Lights'
Welcome to Your New Holiday Home. Please Beware of the Danger of Bombs
49 Killed After Jet Took Off From Wrong Runway
US Housing Slump Fuels Crash Fears
Transatlantic Flight Diverted in Security Alert
EU to Commit Biggest Force in Its History to Keep the Peace
Kidnapped at 10 and Held for Eight Years. The Girl in the Cellar
Fox News Hostage Video Released
11,000 People Flee Homes As Hot Toxic Mud Engulfs Villages and Farmland
Moscow Blast 'targeted Asian Market Traders'
US Marine Corps Calls Up Reserves As Army Feels the Pressure of Fighting on Two Fronts
No Word on Fox News Kidnap
Seven Dead in Moscow Market Blast
Nine Killed in Moscow Market Blasts
Invasion of High-fliers Ends Bowery's Low Life
US Troops Accused of Haditha Cover-up
Ahmadinejad Roadshow Seduces an Adoring Public
US Airport Passengers Evacuated in Alert
Wife Appeals for Release of Gaza Journalists
AOL to Dig Up Spammer's Garden in Search of Gold
Three Men in a Boat: Nine Months Living on Raw Fish and the Occasional Seagull
Cost of Water Shortage: Civil Unrest, Mass Migration and Economic Collapse
Jet Diverted With Fighter Escort After Passenger Panic Attack
Fox News Journalists Kidnapped in Gaza
Thousands Trapped By Tokyo Power Cut
Analysts Fear Truce Will Be Trapped in Catch 22
Game Over for Toy Guns in the Old West
Oil Refinery Gives Greenhouses a Boost With Co2 Pipeline
Further Restrictions May Follow Five Years of Tough Measures
Pessimism on Deal Amid Clashes at Un
Women Repeat Anti-apartheid March
How the Other Half Party
Deploying to the South
Reuters Purges Photo Database
Nepal Peace Talks Close to Collapse, Rebel Chief Warns
Democrats Rarely Find Their Views Echoed By the Party
Young Girl Dies After Fall From Nine-storey Human Tower
Briton Rides Across Oz Into Record Books
Bridging the Gap
Moscow Goes Under the Hammer
The Fisherman, the Marlin, and a Narrow Escape
Haditha Report 'will Back Up Us Execution Allegations'
Fears Grow As Tyre Runs Short of Food, Fuel - and Hope
Stolen Munch Paintings Recovered
Sanctions Nearer As Iran Enriches New Uranium
California Agrees Greenhouse Gas Cap
'Security of the Civilised World Depends on Victory in Iraq'
Merkel Ousts Rice As Forbes' Top Woman
California Breaks Ranks to Limit Greenhouse Gases
Spain Tries to Block Senegal Migration Route
Sudan Rejects Un Peacekeeping Plan
Lebanon Asks for $500m to Help Build Homes and Clear Bombs
Israeli Military Court Sends Captured Hamas Leaders for Trial
Court Backs Right to Wear Anti-bush Shirt
Ambitious, Eccentric - Polish Twins Prescribe a Dose of Harsh Reality
Bush Demands Action As Iran Snubs Un
Sri Lankan Troops Accused of Aid Worker Executions
Iran 'united' in Face of Nuclear Deadline
Cluster Bombing of Lebanon 'immoral' Un Official Tells Israel
Petty Criminal Leaves Sarkozy Red-faced
Annan Calls for End to Lebanon Blockade
Growing Fears Over North Korea Nuclear Test
The Us View of Iraq: We Can Pull Out in a Year
Reports of Leader's China Visit Fuel Nuclear Fears
Peril British Troops Face in Afghanistan 'was Underplayed'
Polish Pm Softens Rightwing Stance After Eu Protests
Caracas Golf Clubs in a Hole As City Bids to Build Homes on Greens
Backlash Over Italian Surnames
War Prompts Lebanese Brain Drain
Annan Visits Un Peacekeepers in Lebanon
UK Readers Blocked From Ny Times Terror Article
Bush Takes 'full Responsibility' for Katrina Response
War Stalls Beirut's Rebirth As Young Seek Better Life Elsewhere
Webhunt for 'british Bounder'
Ahmadinejad Condemns Un and Challenges Bush to Debate
Six Killed in Protests Over Uk Mining Firm in Bangladesh
Italian Women's Claim to Name
Brussels Warns Carmakers: Meet Targets to Slash Co2 Emissions or Face Tougher Laws
JonBenet Murder Case Prosecutor Says She Should Be 'held Accountable' for Decision to Make Arrest
Kidnap Woman Stakes Claim to Captor's House
Bush Admits New Orleans Failures
US Accused of Bid to Oust Chávez With Secret Funds
Fifth Blast Hits Turkey
25 Iraqi Soldiers Killed Amid Nationwide Violence
Annan: Lebanon Ceasefire at Critical Stage
Karr Not Charged With Jonbenet Murder
UK Seeks Briton's Extradition From Pakistan
Pro-Russian Forces Accused of Seizing Chechen Rebel's Widow
17 Die in Suicide Bombing at Afghan Market
Baluchis Vow to Avenge Killing of Tribal Leader
Florida Braces for Hurricane As Storm Claims Life in Haiti
Californians to Defy Us Hemp Ban on 'environment Friendly' Cash Crop
Merkel Backs More Christian Eu Constitution
Austrian Kidnap Teenager 'mourns' for Her Captor
France Faces Claims Over Nazi Deportation
DNA Rules Out Man Who Said He Killed Jonbenet
Tourists Warned to Stay Away As Bomb Attacks Rock Turkey
Afghan Market Blast Kills 17
10 Britons Injured in Turkish Bomb Attacks
Italy Delivers on Aim to Be Go-between
Apartheid-era Minister in Act of Contrition
Powell's Deputy 'leaked Name of Cia Agent'
Iran Fires Missile From Submarine
Freed Fox Pair Tell of Kidnap Torment Before Forced Conversion to Islam
Hizbullah Leader: We Regret the Two Kidnappings That Led to War With Israel
Torture Fear for Blogger
Outbreak of Killer Virus 'ignored'
Concrete Paves Peasants' Long Road From Poverty
Taliban Assassins Target the Clerics Faithful to Kabul
Mexican Castaways Return to Their Villages Amid Joy - and Suspicion
Majority of Israelis 'want Olmert to Go'
Pressure on Olmert As Poll Shows Israelis Want Him to Quit Over Lebanon 'failure'
US Investigates Whether Israel Violated Deal on Cluster Bombs
Mexicans Doubt Fishermen's Tale
Chavez Says China Deal 'great Wall' Against Us
Saviour of Iraq's Antiquities Flees to Syria
Chinese Court Jails New York Times Researcher
Lebanon Rejects Syria's Un Warning
Kidnapped Girl 'found Alive After Eight Years'
China Opens Internet Addicts' Shelter
Wife of Kidnapped Fox Journalist Appeals for Release
Rainbow Warrior Blocked By French Fishermen
One in Six Irish Drivers Has Not Passed Test
New York Times Hires Man With Nose for a Story
Kremlin Party Sets Up Its Stall
Iran Nuclear Response Leak Reveals Demands
China Jails Human Rights Campaigner
Chirac Offer of 2,000 Troops Breaks Impasse on Lebanon Peacekeepers
US Stands Firm Over Fox Journalists
Amnesty Report Accuses Israel of War Crimes
Kidnapped Journalists Appear on Al-jazeera
12 Arrested in Flight Alert
Syria Warns on Peacekeepers
12 Arrested After Plane Diverted in Security Alert
'Significant Gaps' in American Intelligence on Iran
China Finds Japanese Writers Guilty of Nanjing Slur
Snakes in a Cinema Rattle Moviegoers in Arizona
Mantegna Row May Ruin Artist's Celebrations
Rifts Over Hizbullah Form Lebanon's New Green Line
Israeli President Questioned Over Sex Claims
US Interventions Have Boosted Iran, Says Report
Bolivia Appeals for New Breed of Diplomats As Pony-tailed Journalist Goes to Us
Germany Threatens Enlargement Timetable
Lebanon Facing 'security Vacuum'
Iran Tries to Split Un As It Rejects Nuclear Demands
170 Die As Russian Plane is Struck By Lightning
Fruit of the Boom Threatens to Push China's Economy Out of Control
Iran Gives Response to Nuclear Proposals
Iran Refuses Access to Nuclear Site
Germany May Block New Eu Members
Russian Jet Crashes With 170 on Board
UK Troop Levels in Iraq Could Halve By Next Summer
Saddam Co-defendants Deny Anfal Genocide
Twelve Charged With Trying to Buy Weapons for Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka After Fbi Sting
Thousands of Tourists Evacuated As Forest Fires Ravage Resorts
Sarkozy Woos French Voters With Flip-flops and Signed Condoms
Oil Slick Has Sunk to Seabed, Says Greenpeace
Russian Spurns Most Coveted Maths Award
Iran Expected to Reject Nuclear Deal
Italy Offers to Lead Un Force in Lebanon
British Tourists Flee Greek Forest Fires
Saddam Refuses to Plead in Kurd Genocide Trial
Israeli Troops Shoot Two Hizbullah Fighters
Reservists Attack Israeli War Tactics
25% of Palestinian Mps Detained By Israel
Mladic Shadow Hangs Over Srebrenica Trial
Saddam Refuses to Enter Plea in Genocide Trial
Egyptian Train Crash Kills 51
International Rider Killed in Fall at Horse Trials
UN Force Must Be Deployed Immediately, Says Bush
At Least 58 Killed After Trains Collide in Egypt
Hong Kong Politician Attacked
Two Arrested As Moscow Market Explosions Are Blamed on Feud
Separated and Abandoned in China, Twin Girls Find Each Other in America
Israeli Reserve Soldiers Accuse Government of 'cold Feet' Over Conflict
Hong Kong Politician Attacked After March
Egyptian Train Crash Kills 36
88 Migrants Feared Dead After Sinkings Off Italian Island
British Soldier Killed and Three Wounded in Clash With Taliban
Israel Asks Italy to Lead Un Peacekeeping Force and Defies Raid Criticism
More Raids Threatened Until Un Peacekeepers Take Control
Iran Rules Out Halt to Enrichment
Hillary's Star is Finally Rising, Says Time Poll
More Americans Swap Beach for the Office
50 Migrants Missing After Boat Collides With Italian Frigate
Kurds Await Justice As Saddam Trial Begins
Unexploded Cluster Bombs Prompt Fear and Fury in Returning Refugees
Israel To Analyze Possible Talks With Syria
Kashmir and its impact on India and Pakistan
'Miracle' Creek Draws Thousands
Doubts Cast Over Confession to Jonbenet Killing
Pakistan Blames West for Terrorism
Iran Cartoon Show Mocks Holocaust
Army Raid in Bekaa 'breaks' Ceasefire
Parents Vent Fury at Early Release of Daughter's Killers
Fears Over Drug-resistant Tb in Aids Patients
Taxman Demands Share of Oscars Goodie Bag
JonBenet Murder Suspect Dna Tested
Lebanon Facing Humanitarian Crisis
The Battle in the Books
Chinese Police Detain Lawyers of Rights Activist
Aids Campaigner Calls on World Leaders to Speak Out Against Mbeki
Lebanon Aid Appeals: Where You Can Donate
Italy to Send 3,000 Troops to Lebanon
Criticism Forces Olmert to Shelve Border Plan
Blair Doing Lasting Damage to Uk, Says Iranian Leader
Mystery Over Break-in at Presidential Hopeful's Flat
Rights Activist's Lawyers Detained As Trial Opens
'Terrible Silence' Over Mbeki's Record on Aids
Balance of Power Ebbs Away From the Us
25 Die in Baghdad Blasts
Hariri's Son Condemns Israel and Syria
Chirac to Send 200 Extra Troops to Lebanon
Teacher Fled Us After Child Porn Charges
G8 Accused of Failing Africa Over Aids Funds
Rights Groups Warn of Danger of Unexploded Cluster Bombs
Peacekeeper Deployment in the Balance
Study Likens Veterans of Vietnam to Those in Iraq
Anti-terror Wiretaps Ruled Illegal
K19's Former Cook Saves the Sub From Scrap
Police Evict Africans in Raid on France's Biggest Squat
Pakistan Links Al-qaida's Number Two to Plot
Kurds Flee Homes As Iran Shells Iraq's Northern Frontier
Hizbullah Fighters Go to Ground As Lebanese Army Rolls Into the South
I Loved Jonbenet, Says Man Arrested Over Child Beauty Queen's Murder
Philippines Appeals for Help With Oil Spill
Thai Police Hold Man for Jonbenet Murder
Israel to Scrutinise Military Conduct
Israeli Troops 'could Be in Southern Lebanon for Months'
United Nations Emergency Meeting to Decide on Force
Man Questioned Over Jonbenet Murder
Where a Basketful of Groceries Costs a Bucketful of Cash
Russian Coastguards Kill Japanese Fisherman in Disputed Waters
HIV Treatment on Rise But Still Falls Short
Kremlin Sees Need for Opposition Party - So It Plans to Create One
Bloomberg Takes on World in Tobacco Fight
Spike Lee Turns Cameras on New Orleans
After 34 Days of War, Hizbullah Turns Its Attention to Rebuilding Southern Lebanon
Pakistan Says Al-qaida Link to Plot Found
Japanese Fisherman Killed in Kuril Dispute
NZ Ambassador Arrives in Gaza
Anger in China As Typhoon Death Toll Rises
Global Donors to Tackle Lebanon Reconstruction
Fragile Truce Holds As Israelis Withdraw
Meet the Cleverest Man in the World (who's Going to Say No to a $1m Prize)
Unlikely Exodus: the Jews Leaving Britain to Start a New Life in Israel
Pubs, Privet and Parody As China Builds Little Britain By the Yangtse
Lebanese Refugees Flood Back Despite Israeli Warnings
West Bank Pullout May Be Next Casualty
Israel's Bill Put at $1.6bn, But Growth Barely Affected
Reconstruction Alone Estimated at $7bn in Lebanon
Koizumi Ignores Protests in Final Shrine Visit
Typhoon Survivors Claim Officials Understated Toll
Aids Orphans More Likely to Contract Hiv, Says Un Report
Duke of Devonshire in Dispute Over River Rights
Sri Lankan Government Clashes With Tamil Rebels
New Castro Video Broadcast
Thanks to Katrina Evacuees, Houston’s Homicide Rate Increases
Hizbullah Leader Claims Victory
European Economy on the Rise
Returning to Their Devastated Homes, the People of Lebanon Claim Victory
Uneasy Truce Raises Yet More Questions
Gates Breaks Ranks With Attack on Us Aids Policy
Peacekeeping Troops Could Take Months to Assemble
Nasrallah Taunts Israel and Claims Victory
British Oil Workers Kidnapped From Nigerian Bar
Ceasefire Holds As Olmert Admits Tactical Deficiencies
Malaysian Parents Targeted to Curb Crime
Gates Criticises Hiv Abstinence Policies
Ceasefire Brings Uneasy Lull to Lebanon
Cautious Hope As Ceasefire Begins
Scholars Preach Peace As Madrasas Feel the Heat From Police
Beirut Bombarded Hours Before Start of Ceasefire
Olmert Ready to Defend Conduct of War in Face of Attacks From All Sides
Bush 'helped Israeli Attack on Lebanon'
Terrorism Not on the Syllabus Here, Insists Madrasa in Lahore
Base to Be Handed to Iraqi Force
Life Amid the Blood and Bombs As Besieged Hospital Battles on
Fragile Ceasefire in Danger Amid Ferocious Fighting
Time Has Come for New Phase in Fight Against Aids, Conference Told
Pakistan Says 'ringleader' Admits Link With Al-qaida
Resistance Agrees Truce, Can It Now Resist a Fight?
On the Border, Israeli Tanks Struggle for Control
Iranian Leader Launches Blog Aimed at International Audience
Photographs Show Castro Alive, But He Warns of Long Recovery
UN Says 'peace Tomorrow' Despite Israeli Attack
Police Hunt 'two Dozen' Terror Cells in Britain
Israel Defies Un in Massive Assault on Lebanon
UN Votes for Peace Deal; Israeli Cabinet to Decide Tomorrow
Wobbling Olmert Dismays Politicians, Army and Public
Peace Deal at Un is Clouded By Israeli Ambiguity
UN Vote on Lebanon Resolution Expected
100 Killed As Typhoon Hits China
Intelligence Chiefs Looking at Transatlantic Phone Calls
14 Die As Bombardment Goes on Across Lebanon
Israeli Prime Minister Slips Out of Favour
Iran Likely to Defy Un on Nuclear Package
Terror Plot: Pakistan and Al-qaida Links Revealed
Text of Ceasefire Agreed As Israel Threatens Invasion
U.S. Embassy in India Warns Americans about Imminent Bombings
Russia Complicates Ceasefire Consensus
US Officials Suggest Al-qaida Link to 'aircraft Terror Plot'
Israel Warns of New Strikes on Beirut
Israel Struggles to Capture Strategic Hills
UK General Warns Over Afghanistan Fighting
Pakistan's Role in Uncovering Conspiracy
Officials See Plot As Worst Threat Since 9/11
Computerised Weaponry and High Morale
US and France Close to Ceasefire Agreement
US Police Chief Says Sorry After Officers Joked About Shot Woman
Web Firms' China Role Criticised
British Troops in Afghanistan 'in Most Intense Conflict in 50 Years'
China Hit By Strongest Typhoon for Half a Century
'A Plot to Commit Murder on an Unimaginable Scale'
Israel, Hizbullah a Disgrace, Says Un As Aid is Blocked
Pakistani-Born Pilot Sues JetBlue for Discrimination
Israel Delays Planned Invasion
Israel to Widen Ground Offensive
Demands for Recall of Parliament Growing
'We Thought Gaza Was Pretty Tough ...'
Rising Casualties and Criticism of the Army
Thames Water Deal in Jakarta to Be Investigated
Russian Gets 13-year Sentence for Passing Secrets to Mi6
New Bosnian War Footage Shows 'crimes' Against Serbs
Big Lunch, Then a Nap. The Sumo Fitness Regime Out on Dvd
Frenchmen Arrested for Bringing 'happy Crashing' to Spanish Roads
Baghdad Death Toll Increases to 60 a Day
Indian Floods Displace Hundreds of Thousands
General Sacked As Israel Plans Invasion
13 Dead in Strikes on Lebanese Town
US Defends Opium Policy Despite Afghanistan Violence
Iraqi Pm Attacks Heavyhanded Us Tactics
Colombo Car Bomb Kills Boy, Three
Taking the Battlefield to New York
Toddler and Bodyguard Killed in Car Bomb
Iraqi Pm Attacks Us Tactics in Baghdad
China Finally Admits to First Case of Bird Flu
Conjoined Twins Separated in 25-hour Operation
Angry Mps Demand Recall of Parliament
Protesters Board Another Us Plane at Prestwick
Israel Isolates Tyre With Threat to Bomb All Traffic
11 Egyptian Exchange Students Vanish After Arriving in the U.S.
First Bird Flu Death in 2003, Admits China
China Admits Bird Flu Death in 2003
Bush: 'violence Must Stop'
Israeli Strikes Kill 29 As Un Talks Continue
UN Deal May Come Too Late to End Fighting As Obstacles to Truce Continue to Mount
Bloody Night in Beirut As Israel Intensifies Aerial Bombardment
Hizbullah Rockets Bring Panic, Death and Destruction to the Arab Quarter
Thousands Evacuated As Mayon Volcano Erupts
Lieberman Defends Iraq War Support
Activists Held After Boarding Us Plane Searching for Weapons
Reuters Sacks Freelancer Over Doctored Photo
Castro Illness Creates Cuban Leadership Riddle
Lebanon Ready to Deploy Army in South
PA Brothers Killed in Separate Wrecks on Same Road, Same Night
Soldier Killed in Afghanistan is Named
15 Killed in New Israeli Attacks
Reuters Drops Photographer Over 'doctored' Image
Israel's Bloodiest Day Yet As Hizbullah Hits Troops and Haifa
Lebanon Rejects Un Truce Proposal Which It Claims Favours Israel
Bush and Blair Complicit in War Crimes, Says Tehran
UN General Warns Against 'iraq Situation'
UN Truce Plan Under Threat As Conflict Spirals
There Are Burnt-out Tanks, But Few Israeli Troops
A Family Picnic and Then Back to the Front
15 Tsunami Aid Staff Executed in Sri Lanka
US Troops Attempt to Stem Baghdad's Sectarian Bloodshed
Iran Threatens to Use 'oil Weapon' in Nuclear Standoff
Day of Violence Threatens Un Truce Initiative
Gays Flee Iraq As Shia Death Squads Find a New Target
Bush Gives Ground As Un Pushes Israel Peace Deal
Suspects Arrested in Arizona Shootings
13 Killed in Mosul Street Fighting
Bridge Bombings Cut Lebanese Lifeline
Yanukovich Set to Become Ukrainian Pm
Militants Merge With Mainstream
As Castro Starts Recovery, Gambling Website Takes Thousands of Bets From Exiles on When He Will Die
Party's Over for Gibson, But the Outlook's Not So Dim
Oil Slick Threat to Wildlife of Mediterranean
Beleaguered Community Torn By a Distant War
Russia Reignites Feud With Japan By Investing £350m in Disputed Islands
Aid Lifeline Broken After Israelis Hit Highway
Blair Delays Holiday to Work on Un Peace Deal
Reported Shrine Visit Reopens Japanese War Wounds
Israel Bombs Lebanese Highway
Hizbullah and Israel Threaten to Escalate War
North Korea Flood Deaths 'in Thousands'
Israel Extends Lebanon Occupation Plan
Aid Groups Urge Blair to Back Ceasefire
Olmert Declares the Enemy Tamed But Rockets Keep Pounding Villages
Israeli Military Accused of Whitewash
Lebanon Counts Human Cost of 23 Days in Firing Line
Famine Fear As North Korea Plays Down Flood Crisis
Polish Leader Angers Eu With Call to Restore Death Penalty
Car Bomb Kills 21 in Afghanistan
Some Seethe, Others Are Sanguine
Blair Begins Fightback Against Backbench Critics
Apartheid Killer Finds Religion But Not Remorse
Top Us Generals and British Diplomat Warn Iraq Could Slide Into Civil War
Ford Recalls 1.2 Million Vehicles Due to Potential Engine Fires
Former Diplomats Turn on Blair Over Lebanon
President Installs Arch Foe As Ukrainian Pm
Blair Returns to Growing Backlash on Lebanon
Journalists Call for Inquiry Over Iraq Deaths
I Am Perfectly Well, Says Castro From His Hospital Bed
Sri Lanka 'could Agree Deal With Rebels'
Mexican Leftist Sets Up Protest Camp
Fidel Said to Be Recovering But Birthday Party Postponed
In a Miami Bunker, an Emergency Plan is Dusted Off
French Returns to Menu
Crisis Talks Fail to End Turmoil in Ukraine
Hizbullah Rockets Threaten West Bank As Israeli Troops Pour Into Lebanon
UN on Brink of Brokering Ceasefire Agreement
9/11 Tapes Expose Flaws in Military Chiefs' Testimony
Propaganda War Grips a Land Crippled By Shortages
Blair: You've Misunderstood Me Over the Middle East
Journalists Call for Inquiry Over Iraq 'assassinations'
UN Tells Blair to Take a Back Seat Over Lebanon
Olmert: Israel is Winning
Oil Slick Threatens Mediterranean Beaches
Iraq Shaken By Fresh Wave of Violence
Germany Backs Britain's Refusal to Call for Ceasefire
British Soldier Killed in Iraq
Illness Forces Castro to Bow Out. For How Long, No One Can Be Sure
Four British Soldiers Killed
Israel Steps Up Offensive
Ailing Castro Takes First Sick Leave
EU Rejects Ceasefire Call and Un Fails to Act As Disunity Prevails
No Turning Back in Pursuit of Hizbullah
Little Havana Celebrates and Watches for Washington's Cue
Four British Soldiers Killed on Black Day for Army
At Least 63 Dead in Iraq After Roadside Bombings and Suicide Attack
What Happens After Fidel Castro?
Maoist Guerrillas and Tribal Rebels Threaten India's Industrial Boom
Couple Held After Woman Dies During Illegal Liposuction
Battle for Waterway Threatens to Reignite Sri Lankan Civil War
Israel Ready for Massive Invasion
Three Uk Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan