Dozens killed at Afghan wedding party

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• "A suicide bomber went inside the party where hundreds of people were sitting and blew himself up," a police official said of the blast at around 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday in Arghandab district, north of Kandahar, where foreign troops are focusing on a push in coming months to whittle out the Taliban. [..]

US Allies Pledge More Troops for Afghanistan

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• Twenty-five NATO countries and other contributors to the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan have pledged about 7,000 additional troops to supplement the new U.S. force commitment to Afghanistan. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton welcomed the new commitment to the Afghan conflict, which she termed a "critical test for NATO." [..]

No plan to send troops to Afghanistan: China

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• China is not planning on sending troops to Afghanistan to join the International Security Assistance Force there, state media said on Tuesday. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said last week in New York that it was possible China would send troops to Afghanistan. [..]