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• Wasting away

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 165
  How Afghans are hungry despite promises of aid Read more here: Wasting away
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• President Barack Obama’s Effigy Found Hanging At Plains In Georgia

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  By Meena KarGeorgia, Jan 4, (THAINDIAN NEWS) It appears that US President Barack Obama is facing adverse situation in his country as well as in foreign lands. Few days back, an effigy of the US President was burnt on the streets of Afghanistan. It has been reported that the Afghans, who were enraged by the [...]
  1 day ago

• Afghans Awarded in Counter IED Program

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  NEWS RELEASE ISAF Joint Command - Afghanistan 2010-01-CA–003 For Immediate Release KABUL, Afghanistan (Jan. 1) – A new program has awarded nearly $200,000 (U.S.) to local citizens for tipping off international forces to weapons caches in the past three months. The program called "Operation Jaeza" or "reward" has led ...
  3 days ago

• Road ahead in Afghanistan depends on Afghans (Gen McChrystal speaking in Ottawa)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Ottawa, Ontario — As the withdrawal deadline of the Afghanistan mission approaches, U.S. General Stanley McChrystal, Commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), was at the Chateau Laurier to speak to military personnel, diplomats and politicians on the road ahead in Afghanistan Alongside ...
  5 days ago

• Toad Busters banned from gassing pests

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A group fighting to keep cane toads out of Western Australias Kimberley says it is being stopped from using carbon dioxide to gas the pests because bureaucrats have told them it is too cruel. Kimberley Toad Busters has labelled the Department of Environment and Conservations (DEC) refusal to sanction the use of ...
  6 days ago

• Spanish defense minister makes surprise visit to Afghanistan

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  WALA I NOW, AFGHANISTAN (BNO NEWS) — Spain’s Minister of Defence, Carmen Chacon, made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Monday, the NATO-led ISAF alliance said on Tuesday.It was Chacon’s fourth visit to Afghanistan in the past twenty months. The minister arrived at a local airport in Qala I Now where she was ...
  1 week ago

• Canadian troops to go on living with Afghans despite IED death

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 165
  KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Canadas military will press ahead with its new strategy of having troops live among Afghans despite this weeks "surprise" death of a Canadian soldier in a village in Panjwaii district, a senior officer said.
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• Who Are The Four Afghan Detainees Released From Guantanamo?

  
  The Public Record — Authority: 134
  Over the weekend, 12 prisoners were released from Guantánamo, as the Justice Department announced in a press release on December 20. I have previously reported the stories of the two Somalis who were released — emphasizing how nothing about their cases demonstrated that they were “the worst of the worst” ...
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• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
  1 week ago

• Who Are The Four Afghans Released From Guantánamo?

  
  Andy Worthington — Authority: 540
  Over the weekend, 12 prisoners were released from Guantánamo, as the Justice Department announced in a press release on December 20. I have previously reported the stories of the two Somalis who were released — emphasizing how nothing about their cases demonstrated that they were “the worst of the worst” ...
  1 week ago

• Taliban claim control of over 80pc of Afghanistan

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 526
  Taliban claim control of over 80pc of Afghanistan
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• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
  2 weeks ago

• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Afghans fleeing Taliban are flooding Tajikistan

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 953
  DUSHANBE, TAJIKISTAN -- The night his 11-year-old son escaped from kidnappers, Abdul Aziz bundled a few belongings into a car and drove his family 18 miles north across the Afghan border into Tajikistan. "It is too frightening to live in Afghanistan anymore," he said, standing in the bare, unlit...
  2 weeks ago

• Georges et les soldats afghans en charter

  
  THE BLORG! Corp — Authority: 137
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  2 weeks ago

• Afghans Say 8 Dead in Suicide Blast

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 179
  A car bomb blast in the Afghan capital Tuesday killed at least 8 people and wounded 40, according to the Interior Ministry. Security officials think former vice-president Ahmad Zia Massoud may have been the target. (Dec 15)
  3 weeks ago

• Canada kept Afghan governor in power despite abuser rep

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 165
  OTTAWA — A former governor of Kandahar who is accused of personally torturing Afghans might have been removed from office as far back as 2006 if Canadian officials hadnt defended him, according to diplomatic memos that have never been made public by the
  3 weeks ago

• Boat crew’s shock as shark gnashes oar

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A surf boat has been attacked by a white pointer shark while on a training run at Hawks Nest, north of Newcastle. The boat was about 400 metres off shore when the sweepers oar was ripped from his hands by the shark - thought to be a juvenile. Surf boat sweeper, Greg Ross says the crew got the shock of their lives. ...
  3 weeks ago

• More ‘Corruption’ Is Needed in Afghanistan

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 495
  In the 20th century, the few successful counterinsurgency campaigns run by an outside power—the Americans in the Philippines after the Spanish-American War at the turn of the last century, the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  3 weeks ago

• Afghans in Crochet Today!

  
  notyourgranny'scrochet — Authority: 103
  I recently designed two completely different afghans for the January/February issue of Crochet Today! Its finally out on the news stands, and the issue is now on their website . But, I want to show you the pictures of my two afghans - they both were fun to design and crochet. This is the Big Love afghan. It ...
  3 weeks ago

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