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Afghans say they foiled
al-Qaida bomber

Afghan security forces thwarted a suicide bomb attack on a provincial governor on Monday and arrested a suspected al-Qaida member from Mali, the governor said.

• U.S. soldier killed in Afghan attack

• Mine kills 6 Afghan police

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• NBC: Egyptian outrage over disaster

• Afghans: Al-Qaida bomber foiled

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Slide shows: tsunami | MORE

AFP - Getty Images

• Before and after
Flip between images of destruction immediately after the Dec. 26, 2004 tsunami and one year later to see how the impacted nations have recovered and survived.

• Tsunami survivors rebuild, remember

• Six months later

• Three months later

• Tsunami strikes Indian Ocean region

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An earthquake survivor walks through snow in the devastated village of Pieer Chanasi

• Winter in Pakistan
Earthquake survivors fight for their lives once more as winter snow covers the ground.

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A Kashmiri quake survivor sits in a hospital ward in Karnah

• Shaken lives
A magnitude 7.6 earthquake rocks three countries in South and Central Asia. Thousands are dead in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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• Al-Qaida's leader
Background to the man behind the deadliest terrorist organization in the world

Video: Pakistan earthquake

Nightly News

• Pakistan’s ‘lost generation’
Oct. 20: NBC's Ned Colt reports on the earthquake in South Asia, where the death toll nears 80,000 and more than half of the dead may be children.

• For quake survivors, a dire situation

• Quake continues to kill

• Weather hampers quake relief

• Situation may worsen in quake zone

• Quake wipes out Pakistan city

• Pakistan's lost generation

• Quake relief slow to remote villages

• Quake's forgotten villages

• Earthquake relief

• Hope dwindles for quake survivors

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