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Insurgents assaulted Kandahar Air Base, the main military base in southern Afghanistan, on Saturday night, military officials said, in the second attack on a major base in a week.

Lindsey Vonn of the United States claimed her third straight overall World Cup title when she won Friday's super-G race. Vonn was the last racer to go down the Kandahar hill and could have chosen not to race since she knew by then she had the title.

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told troops in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday they would soon be part of a "decisive phase" in the war -- an operation to impose control over the Taliban heartland of Kandahar province.