US President Barack Obama on Tuesday said he would send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, as he vowed to "seize the initiative" to end an unpopular war and start a pullout in July 2011. His much-anticipated announcement at the US Military Academy at West Point, New York, marked his biggest test...
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After three months of intensive review of his Af-Pak policy, US President Barack Obama today announced to send an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan and begin withdrawal of troops in 18 months.
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Residents of Kabul on Wednesday gave mixed reactions to US President Barack Obama’s new strategy ordering an extra 30,000 troops into the country. Some said Afghanistan needed better governance, more jobs, better education, rather than troops. Others worried America would keep on pouring more an...
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The land is being eaten away on all sides — by rising sea levels but also because of dams on a river which have changed the flow of fresh water into the lagoon. Authorities have simply given up the fight to save the little that remains. Kopieu Gouganou, Committee for lagoon management sayi...
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A play where both the actors and their audience are patients is being organised at Cuba’s biggest psychiatric hospital… A crazy project for some, but it all makes perfect sense to director Serge Sandor. There are theatre scenes that are extraordinary in this play, scenes of comedy which are real...
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A few thousand people have refused to leave their homes but nature may well decide for them. In another decade, even these vestiges will have completed disappeared and the land they love so much will be swept away by the sea.
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The Afghan government on Wednesday welcomed US President Barack Obama’s new strategy ordering an extra 30,000 troops into the country in a bid to forge a quick end to the war against the Taliban. Kabul has long called for the deployment of more than the 112,000 NATO and US troops currently in Afg...
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"When I used this method, it was against the occupation. I did not use it against a compatriot," Zaidi complained. "I always knew the occupier and his lackeys would stop at nothing to get to me." Following the commotion, the news conference continued with Zaidi taking questions about his famous ...
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Stock markets in Dubai fell sharply on Monday and then ground to a halt amid a lack of buyers, still reeling from Dubai World’s shock proposal to suspend debt payments. The emirate's benchmark DFM Index shed 8.30 percent as leading securities, including construction and finance, plunged after tr...
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Newly elected Honduran president Porfirio Lobo is facing the challenge of convincing backers of ousted president Manuel Zelaya, and the world, that his election was legitimate. He called for dialogue with all political parties at a press conference.
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