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Pakistan PM to take on foreign, defence portfolios himself-sources
ReutersBy Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD, May 28 (Reuters) - Pakistan Prime Minister-elect Nawaz Sharif will oversee the sensitive foreign and defence portfolios as he seeks to forge a working partnership with the all-powerful military in the early days of his...Tags: European Union, Afghanistan, National Government, Government, India
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Afghan police defectors return to fold, kill seven colleagues
ReutersKANDAHAR, Afghanistan, May 28 (Reuters) - Two Afghan police officers who had recently rejoined the force after defecting to the Taliban, shot dead seven of their sleeping colleagues on Tuesday, a police chief said. The killings came during a particularly...Tags: Afghanistan, Armed Conflicts, Politics, National Government, Government
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Choosing sides in Afghanistan
Hamid Karzai has been president of Afghanistan for a long time — since the end of 2001, when he was installed by a U.S.-led alliance. At the time, he seemed a charming, English-speaking leader with a colorful wardrobe who could craft a democratic,...
Tags: Afghanistan, Elections, Central Intelligence Agency, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Qayum Karzai
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Reuters World News Highlights at 1020 GMT, May 29
ReutersTOP STORIES ----------- PARIS - The recession-hit euro zone will fall further behind a generally improving United States and a rebounding Japan this year, the OECD said on Wednesday, cutting its global growth forecasts. - - - - MOSCOW - Disputes...Tags: European Union, Beijing (China), Afghanistan, China, Labor Legislation
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Reuters World News Highlights at 1300 GMT, May 29
ReutersMay 29 (Reuters) - TOP STORIES ----------- MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov denounced as "odious" a U.S.-backed draft resolution condemning the Syrian government before a debate at the U.N. Human Rights Council on Wednesday and said it...Tags: Afghanistan, China, National Government, Nigeria, Government
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World's wrecked cars reincarnated on Afghanistan's dusty streets
HERAT, Afghanistan - They sit in the sun harboring their lost histories, their forgotten dreams, their traces of funerals, graduations and stolen kisses. On dusty windshields, insurance stickers from Travelers and State Farm bear witness to wrecks in...
Tags: World Bank Group, Afghanistan, Kabul (Afghanistan), Vehicles, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
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The Vietnam syndrome
Thirty-eight years ago last week, I was among the last CIA officers to be choppered off the U.S. Embassy roof in Saigon as the North Vietnamese took the country. Just two years before that chaotic rush for the exits, the Nixon administration had withdrawn...
Tags: Afghanistan, Central Intelligence Agency, Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Embassy
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Taliban attack international aid group in Afghanistan capital
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban gunmen launched a coordinated attack on an international aid group’s guesthouse in an upscale Kabul neighborhood Friday, setting off a furious firefight that lasted several hours and renewing fears of the insurgents&...
Tags: Afghanistan, Kabul (Afghanistan), Armed Conflicts, Bombings, Rebellions
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Khaled Hosseini sets 'And the Mountains Echoed' against Afghan history
Although Khaled Hosseini has lived in the United States since he was 15, he remains engaged in the struggles of his native Afghanistan, which he has made palpable for Western readers in two bestselling novels, "The Kite Runner" and "A Thousand Splendid...Tags: Kabul (Afghanistan), Afghanistan, Nabi, Book, Health and Medical Professionals
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Julian Bond: Race relations progress still has long way to go
I have always suspected racists didn't like being called out for their racism. Now I have proof. When I told MSNBC's Thomas Roberts on May 14th that the tea party was "the Taliban wing of American politics", a firestorm erupted. Arguing the IRS was...Tags: Culture, Justice and Rights, Sociology, Tea Party Movement, NAACP
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