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11/15/2007 (Paktia, Afghanistan) - A teacher, killed for teaching English, is among three people shot to death by the Taliban.

11/14/2007 (Nazran, Ingushetia) - A police officer is assassinated by Muslim separatists as he leaves his home.

11/14/2007 (Saidu Sharif, Pakistan) - Two civilians are among four killed when Islamic militants fire rockets into an airport.

11/14/2007 (Dushanbe, Tajikistan) - A street-sweeper is killed by a bomb planted outside a government building.

11/14/2007 (Hilla, Iraq) - Two people are killed by a Fedayeen suicide attack on a home.

11/14/2007 (Iskandariya, Iraq) - A suicide bomber kills two Iraqis at a tribal chiefs meeting.

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19-Year Old Saudi Rape Victim Ordered to Undergo 200 Lashes

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A 19-year-old female victim of gang rape who initially was ordered to undergo 90 lashes for "being in the car of an unrelated male at the time of the rape," has been sentenced to 200 lashes and six months in jail for telling her story to the news media.

The new verdict was handed down by Saudi Arabia's Higher Judicial Council following a retrial, the Arab News reported.

The court last year sentenced the six heavily-armed men who carried out the attack against the Shiite woman to between one and five years for committing the crime.

But the judges had decided to punish the woman further for "her attempt to aggravate and influence the judiciary through the media," a court source told the Arab News.

The new verdict issued on Wednesday also toughened the sentences against the six men to between two and nine years in prison.

Saudi Arabia enforces a strict Islamic doctrine that forbids unrelated men and women from associating with each other, bans women from driving and forces them to cover head-to-toe in public.

The case has angered members of Saudi Arabia's Shiite community. The convicted men are Sunni Muslims, the dominant community in the oil-rich Gulf state.

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Taliban Execute Teen for Teaching English in School

KABUL, Afghanistan — A teenage boy who was teaching English at a local school was dragged into the street and executed by Taliban militants, the provincial police chief reported.

The brutal killing sparked a clash that left two suspected Islamist fighters and two policemen dead, an official said.

"The boy, who was teaching English to other students after school hours, had been warned by the militants to stop teaching," provincial police chief Esmatuallh Alizai said.

Taliban militants have killed several teachers and students in the past for attending the government-run schools, which they regard as un-Islamic.

Officials on Friday said Afghan and foreign forces clashed with Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan, leaving 25 suspected insurgents and two policemen dead.

In southern Kandahar province, meanwhile, a roadside bomb hit a police patrol vehicle, killing four policemen, said Zhari district chief Niaz Mohammad Serhadi. Militants also opened fire on an SUV carrying two newlywed couples and their relatives, killing both couples and a child, said Kandahar provincial police chief Syed Agha Saqib. Another man and child were wounded.

In southwestern Nimroz province, a homicide bomber blew himself up next to a NATO convoy, but there were no casualties, said ISAF spokesman Maj. Charles Anthony.