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• German army chief quits over Afghan deaths cover-up

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 972
  Gen Wolfgang Schneiderhan, the head of the German armed forces, has resigned after being accused of suppressing evidence showing civilians had been killed in an Afghan air strike.
  3 hours ago

• NATO chief seeks troops for Afghanistan amid German crisis (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Berlin, Nov 26 (DPA) NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Thursday that European states would have to send more troops to Afghanistan, as a scandal over civilian casualties in the country rocked the German government.Two of Germany’s highest military officials resigned and a former defence minister came ...
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• Dissident PPP leaders complain of phone tapping

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Islamabad, Nov.26 (ANI): ‘Dissident’ leaders of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has accused the government of tapping the telephone lines of several senior party leaders, saying their activities were being monitored by secret agencies.The leaders said the agencies were acting on the directives of Interior ...
  10 hours ago

• German General Resigns Over Afghan Air Strike

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 152
  German General Wolfgang Schneiderhan in Kabul, Afghanistan on Nov. 12.
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• Afghanistan: German general fired over air strike that killed civilians

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 972
  One of Germanys top commanders has been fired after he allegedly withheld details of the air strike that killed Afghan civilians in September.
  12 hours ago

• Unmanned planes to guard UK’s borders

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, Nov.26 (ANI): Military drones will be deployed to guard Britain’s borders from illegal immigrants and drug smugglers, The Sun reports.The pilotless spy planes - capable of reading a car number plate from 20,000 feet - will be patrolling the South East coast within two years. Radio-controlled airships fitted ...
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• Jamaat-ud-Dawa continues to function in Pak despite being proscribed

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Mudrike (Pakistan Punjab), Nov.26 (ANI): The Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), which according to India acted as a front group for the militants responsible for last tear terror carnage on Mumbai, continues to function in Pakistan as a charity despite being proscribed.According to The Independent, the charity still doles out free ...
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• What happens to enlisted soldiers and their civilian wives if a contract marriage is proven?

  
  http://diddy.name — Authority: 169
  If an enlisted soldier is "married" to a civilian woman, and she decides it is not to her benefit to stay married and wants to report him with proof, what happens? Can both parties be brought up on charges or only the enlisted soldier? My sis is in this situation and is wondering what she can do. She has definite ...
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• 9/11 Never Forget Coalition Calls For Action

  
  Politics 24/7 — Authority: 430
      Today, the families of 9/11 victims gathered together to make an emotional appeal for support from fellow Americans. Led by Debra Burlingame, the sister of Charles Burlingame, the pilot of the hijacked plane that was intentionally flown into The Pentagon, the  “9/11 Never Forget Coalition”  urged ...
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• Navy SEALs Charged: Another Cancerous Case Of Obama Criminalizing Those Who Protect Us

  
  Start Thinking Right — Authority: 477
  Welcome to Obama’s America, where there are only three truly evil acts: 1) being a conservative; 2) working for Fox News; 3) being a patriot who tries to keep America safe from its enemies. These SEALs are at least guilty of number 3, and are most likely also guilty of 1 as well.  That’s more than enough for ...
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• Measuring Human Rights (9): When “Worse” Doesn’t Necessarily Mean “Worse”

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 479
  I discussed in this older post  some of the problems related to the measurement of human rights violations, and to the assessment of progress or deterioration. One of the problems I mentioned is caused by improvements in measurement methods. Such improvements can in fact result in a statistic showing increasing ...
  2 days ago

• Most Indians still feel that US giving India short shrift

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Nov.24 (ANI): A majority of Indians across the United States feel that President Barack Obama gave too much deference to China during his recent Asia trip, and thus created doubts about whether Washington is on India’s side, reports the Christian Science Monitor.With Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh ...
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• Islamic Terrorists Should Face Military Trial, According to Father of Man Killed on Flight 93

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 441
  Tom Burnett Sr., father of United Flight 93 hero Tom Jr., believes the Islamic terrorists who committed acts of war Sept. 11, 2001, should receive justice via a military trial and not via proceedings in a civilian courtroom located within walking distance of Ground Zero.  Granting them civilian trials, he says, ...
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• Manmohan Singh Says Ready to Settle Kashmir Dispute

  
  TrendPK.com — Authority: 463
  WASHINGTON: India has enduring civilizational links with Afghanistan. India will continue to assist Afghanistan in building its institutions and its human resources. With these two sentences, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday threw down the gauntlet to Washington, Islamabad and perhaps even Beijing and other ...
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• Manmohan Singh Says Ready to Settle Kashmir Dispute

  
  MastiFunda.com — Authority: 152
  WASHINGTON: India has enduring civilizational links with Afghanistan. India will continue to assist Afghanistan in building its institutions and its human resources. With these two sentences, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday threw down the gauntlet to Washington, Islamabad and perhaps even Beijing and other ...
  2 days ago

• Manmohan says ready to settle Kashmir dispute

  
  Pakistan News | News, Videos, Articles, Current Affairs, Politics, Entertainment, Technology | Geo TV | Dawn | The News | Ten Sports | Geo Super | India News — Authority: 459
  WASHINGTON: India has enduring civilizational links with Afghanistan. India will continue to assist Afghanistan in building its institutions and its human resources. With these two sentences, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday threw down the gauntlet to Washington, Islamabad and perhaps even Beijing and other ...
  2 days ago

• Over 30 Civilians Killed in Philippines Massacre

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 721
  More than 40 people were kidnapped and at least 30 killed Monday in the Philippines in an incident that authorities are considering to be a politically motivated massacre, according to the Los Angeles Times. The group of civilians, which included several journalists, was overcome by dozens of gunmen near the town of ...
  3 days ago

• 130,000 Tamil IDPs Released

  
  Conflict Health — Authority: 119
  T he incredible and brutal end of the Sri Lankan civil war last year gave hope for reconciliation between the government and the island nation’s Tamil ethnic population. Instead, the government rounded up and detained 300,000 mostly Tamil civilians. In the face of horrific humanitarian conditions, the international ...
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• Major Nidal Hasan has paralysis

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Texas, Nov 23 (THAINDIAN NEWS) In what can be termed as poetic justice, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who is charged with killing 13 people at the largest US military base in Fort Hood, Texas, on November 5, 2009, is now paralyzed from the chest down, as a result of the 4 bullets which entered [...]
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• AFGHANISTAN: Afghan victims of Taliban violence suffer in silence

  
  War Victims Monitor — Authority: 123
  AFPBy LYNNE O’DONNELLNovember 22, 2009KABUL — The stench of sewage hangs in the air as barefoot children clamber up a suburban hillside in Kabul, past green flags that flap over the graves of Afghans killed in suicide attacks.Perhaps a third of the tombs, each surrounded by a wrought-iron fence, are marked as the ...
  3 days ago

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