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car, blew up at the gate, said Hazrat Hussain Mashreqiwal, a spokesman for the provincial police chief. Guards started shooting at the second vehicle before it too exploded, he added. It was unclear if the explosives were detonated by the attackers themselves or by shooting from the guards.
• Two Afghan university students caught up in the attack and three other Afghan civilians working at the base were killed, Mashreqiwal said. He did not know if the three were private guards, members of the security forces or civilian employees.
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• ROME (AP) -- Italians are choosing a center-left candidate for premier for elections early next year, an important primary runoff given the main party is ahead in the polls against a center-right camp in utter chaos over whether Silvio Berlusconi will run again.
• Sunday's runoff pits a veteran center-left leader, Pier Luigi Bersani, 61, against the 37-year-old mayor of Florence, Matteo Renzi, who has campaigned on an Obama-style "Let's change Italy now" mantra.
• Nearly all polls show Bersani winning the primary, after he won the first round of balloting Nov. 25 with 44.9 percent of the vote. Since he didn't get an absolute majority, he was forced into a runoff with Renzi, who garnered 35.5 percent.
• After battling all week to get more voters to the polling stations for round two, Renzi seemed almost resigned to a Bersani win by Sunday, saying he hoped that by Monday "we can all work together."
• Bersani, a former transport and industry minister, seemed confident of victory as well, joking about Berlusconi's flip-flopping political ambitions by asking "What time did he say it?" when told that the media mogul had purportedly decided against running.
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• TOKYO (AP) -- At least seven people were feared missing Sunday after about 150 concrete panels fell from the roof of a tunnel on the main highway linking Tokyo with central Japan.
• Efforts to rescue any survivors trapped inside the tunnel were hindered by heavy

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