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Afghan President Hamid Karzai heard a litany of complaints Sunday from residents of Marjah, the southern town that thousands of U.S., NATO and Afghan troops just seized from the Taliban.
Three more Afghan civilians have been killed in the assault on a southern Taliban stronghold, NATO forces said Tuesday, highlighting the toll on the population from an offensive aimed at making them safer.
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June Irene Grange Bratby Age 77, Greenfield, died Saturday, February 13, 2010, at home.
I have been a community pharmacist for over twenty years. I enjoy my profession and still derive great satisfaction from expanding my clinic knowledge.
Indonesians pray in a temple in Jakarta, Indonesia on the 2010 Chinese New Year’s Day.
Most Afghans now seem optimistic about the future of their country, according to a new poll.
BANGALORE: The High Court has decided to await the Supreme Court verdict for the hearing of a petition challenging the renovation work of the cave at Bababudanagiri in Chikmagalur.
Bertha Taber, 93, died Saturday, January 9, 2010, at Tobey Hospital in Wareham. She was the widow of the late Henry C. Govoni and the late George F. Taber.
A British bomb disposal expert killed on the deadliest day for Nato forces in more than two months is due to be named.
The top U.N. official in Afghanistan says he will step down early next year after a rocky two-year tenure marked by a fraud-marred national election and a deadly Taliban attack on U.N. employees.
Last week’s presidential debate was supposed to cover foreign policy issues, but the ongoing market meltdown was too big to ignore.
President Barack ObamaA said last night he is sending 30,000 more U.S. troops toA Afghanistan by next summer to speed the battle against theA Taliban and plans to start bringing some home in 18 months.
Battle-weary troops and their families braced for a wrenching round of new deployments to Afghanistan, but many said they support the surge announced Tuesday as long as it helps to end the 8-year-old conflict.
The United States has no long-term stake in Afghanistan and its primary aim is to defeat al Qa’eda there, the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton ,said on Sunday.
A Jordanian citizen died after being beaten by police, the second time this week, a police spokesman said Sunday, casting a rare spotlight on the nation’s U.S.-trained security forces, that may also have worked as proxy jailers for the CIA.
Oct. 6 1950 b/w file photo of 10 year old twins Brian Thomas Sullivan and Kevin James Sullivan from Islington, London, who carry their luggage to the boat train “Rangitoto” as they leave Liverpool Street station in London bound for Auckland, New Zealand.
Pakistani soldiers closed in on two major Taliban strongholds in South Waziristan on Saturday, officials said, as government jets pounded insurgent hide-outs and the prime minister said the country had no choice but to defeat the militants.
Authorities have arrested eight people, including one in Saudi Arabia, in connection with this week’s deadly attack on a guest house used by United Nations employees, the Afghan intelligence chief said Saturday.
A man is fighting for his life after being shot in the chest. The victim was gunned down just after 10pm on Friday night in Kirkby, Liverpool.
Captors of a 79-year old Irish missionary kidnapped in the southern Philippines have released a video in which the priest says his abductors are demanding $2 million to release him.
Moscow plans to buy a French amphibious assault ship, the first such purchase from a NATO country, as the Kremlin seeks to reaffirm Russia’s global reach, a Russian news agency reported Saturday.
Eight U.S. troops are killed in bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, the alliance said, in one of the deadliest weeks for U.S. troops ahead of a presidential run-off. Several troops were also wounded in “multiple complex attacks, just a day after 11 U.S. troops died in separate helicopter crashes.
President Barack Obama said an overhaul of the U.S. health care system is closer than ever, but he warned of tough battles ahead as major industries such as insurance companies fight hard to preserve their profits.
RCADIA, Fla. - President Barack Obama made a pitch for renewable energy Tuesday, announcing $3.4 billion in government support for 100 projects aimed at modernizing the nation’s power grid.
In a brazen attack on Iran’s military elite yesterday, a suicide bomber killed six Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commanders and at least 36 others at a gathering of tribal leaders in a southeastern province near the Pakistan border.
A swimming pool in a Warwickshire town is to close for two months for maintenance work.
Rio de Janeiro’s mayor says the city has a tough battle ahead combatting security problems before the 2016 Olympics .
An Afghan election worker unloads ballot boxes from a truck at the Independent Election Commission headquarters in Kabul on August 23, 2009.
President Barack Obama’s stimulus plan spared tens of thousands of teachers from losing their jobs, state officials said Monday amid a nationwide effort to calculate the effect of Washington’s $787 billion recovery package.
Protesters brought some different songs Monday to an elementary school where students sang in praise of President Barack Obama, bringing criticism from conservative commentators who said children were being indoctrinated.
President Barack Obama should learn from the experience of previous U.S. leaders when grappling with thorny nuclear issues ranging from the ambitions of Iran and North Korea to the threat of terrorism, experts told a forum on the shaping of American foreign policy in a nuclear age.
Two presidential visits in two years. ABC26’s Glynn Boyd reports, that’s what Martin Luther King, Junior Charter School will boast on Thursday.
One of President Barack Obama’s top aides says Fox News Channel acts like a wing of the Republican Party.
POLLING and research firm YouGov has reported its first profits fall in eight years.
Washington - White House Communications Director Anita Dunn accused Fox News of being backed by Republicans, yet Dunn didn’t accuse CNN of broadcasting Democrat-biased commentary, because only CNN would air such dribble.
Gunshots have been from inside Pakistan’s army headquarters, where Islamist militants are holding up to 15 soldiers hostage.
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan Heavily armed militants were holding up to 15 soldiers hostage inside Pakistan’s army headquarters early Sunday more than 12 hours after they stormed the complex in an audacious assault on the heart of the most powerful institution in the nuclear-armed country.
The Security Council voted Thursday to extend U.N. authorization for NATO’s 70,000-strong force in Afghanistan for a year, emphasizing the importance of protecting civilians just as the U.S. and international commitment to the war is under review.
President Barack Obama is confronting a split among his closest advisers on Afghanistan, reflecting divisions in his own party over whether to send in thousands more U.S. troops and complicating his efforts to adopt a war policy he can sell to a public grown weary of the 8-year-old conflict.
Federal prosecutors have announced a settlement with a Los Angeles-based bank that was sued along with two auto dealerships for allegedly charging non-Asian customers higher interest rates on car loans.
Bob Ainsworth, the Defence Secretary, has admitted Britain is unable to commit more military personnel to Afghanistan unless it provides enough kit and equipment.
In this July 1, 2009 file photo, U.S Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, left, speaks at the unveiling of an American-made prototype streetcar in Portland, Ore.
Former President Bill Clinton says he believes President Barack Obama is wise to step back and rethink U.S. policy in Afghanistan before approving the dispatch of additional U.S. troops there.
A visiting International Monetary Fund delegation to Sri Lanka Tuesday declared that the country’s economic revival was better than expected and raised theeconomic growth rate target from 3.0 per cent to 3.5 per cent thisyear.
India’s federal home minister wants New Delhi’s residents to help improve the city’s image ahead of the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
British Cycling says rider Jonny Bellis is in stable condition in a medically induced coma following a scooter crash in Italy.
Police officers foiled a plan to assassinate a regional education minister in northwestern Pakistan when they engaged four militants in a gunbattle Monday that ended with a teenage suicide bomber blowing himself up, police said.
A housekeeping manager at a luxury New York City hotel next to Central Park has been arrested in the death of a woman found strangled with a knife sticking from her neck.Police say 29-year-old Derrick Praileu was arrested in the hours after the body of Dubai businesswoman Andree Bejjani was found at Manhattan’s Jumeirah Essex House, which is near …
DEFENCE cuts would jeopardise Britain’s security, senior industry experts warned yesterday.
