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watch One-Minute World News Last Updated: Sunday, 23 July 2006,
12:37 GMT 13:37 UK Afghan violence 'leaves 22 dead' UK soldier
in Helmand province Six UK soldiers have been killed in recent
weeks At least 22 people are reported to have been killed in the
latest violence in Afghanistan - 19 of them Taleban fighters and
three policemen.  The Taleban were killed in fighting with UK
troops and Afghan police in the southern Helmand province, local
officials say.  The police were killed by suspected Taleban
fighters in Ghazni province.  On Saturday six civilians and two
Canadian soldiers were killed in a double suicide attack in
Kandahar.  Taleban positions  "Government and British forces
killed 19 Taleban and arrested 17 others, including two
Pakistanis, in the attacks" in Helmand, the province's deputy
governor, Amir Mohammad Akhundzada told the Reuters news agency.
Local people said civilians had also been killed.  The fighting
took place when the UK