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U.S. Soldiers search Afghan men during a routine patrol in Lashkar Gah, Helmand province, Afghanistan, Jan. 28, 2010.
(photo: USAF / Tech. Sgt. Efren Lopez)
To win over Afghans, US must listen
Al Jazeera
| Recent announcements on the war in Afghanistan - from US defence secretary Robert Gates' call for Taliban disarmament and reintegration, to the US state department's pledge to increase political, diplomatic and economic engagement, to the recent London conference of international leaders - bode we...
 A Chinese man looks at a bundle of scallions at a street market in Beijing Sunday, April 15, 2001. Japan decided to impose emergency tariffs that go in effect on April 23, in an effort to protect domestic farmers from a rising tide of cheap agricultural
(photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO)
China's global hunt for food security
Canada Dot Com
    | President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan has an unmatched survival instinct. | This, after all, is a man who came to power in the dying days of the Soviet Union as Communist party general-secretary of the Central Asian republic, and then rode the transition to democracy by getting elect...
Outsourced QinetiQ staff operate drones in Afghanistan
The Times
| Civilian contractors are being sent to Afghanistan to operate military pilotless aircraft, a development that is likely to fuel a widening debate about the use of outscourcing in front-line operations. | QinetiQ, the privatised British defence tech...
Battle to electrify Kandahar shows Afghan dilemma
The News & Observer
| KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- About 90 factories sit vacant in the economic capital of southern Afghanistan. They could fight militants in a way no army could, employing thousands of people and giving them a reason to shun the Taliban. | A lack of relia...
Battle to electrify Kandahar shows Afghan dilemma
The Wichita Eagle
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - About 90 factories sit vacant in the economic capital of southern Afghanistan. They could fight militants in a way no army could, employing thousands of people and giving them a reason to shun the Taliban. | A lack of reliable...
Struggle for electricity in Kandahar shows difficulty of development amid war in Afghanistan
Star Tribune
| KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - About 90 factories sit vacant in the economic capital of southern Afghanistan. They could fight militants in a way no army could, employing thousands of people and giving them a reason to shun the Taliban. | A lack of reliab...
 In this television image from Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera, Osama bin Laden, right, listens as his top deputy Ayman al-Zawahri speaks at an undisclosed location, in this image made from undated video tape broadcast by the station Monday April 15, 20
AP Photo/Al-Jazeera/APTN
Bin Laden calls for US boycott over climate change
Irish Times
| AL-QAEDA leader Osama bin Laden yesterday blamed the US and western industrial nations for climate change and called for a boycott of the dollar and US products to halt "the whee...
Pro-Taliban protesters hold a picture of Osama bin Laden during a protest rally in the port town of Karachi, Friday Nov. 9, 2001, as political religious parties called for a nationwide strike to protest the ongoing air strikes against targets in Afghanist
AP / Zia Mazhar
Bin Laden blasts US on climate change, economy
Daily Star Lebanon
| By Agence France Presse (AFP) | Saturday, January 30, 2010 | - Powered by | Ali Khalil  | Agence France Presse  |   | DUBAI: Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden lecture...
 During a search and destroy mission in the Zhawar Kili area, U.S. Navy SEALs (SEa, Air, Land) found valuable intelligence information, including this Osama Bin Laden propaganda poster located in an al Qaida classroom. In addition to detaining several sus
US Navy file
Bin Laden Rebukes U.S. on Climate Change
The New York Times
| Osama bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda, blamed the United States and developed countries for not halting climate change and said that the global economy should immediately aband...
Battle To Electrify Kandahar Shows Afghan Dilemma
CBS News
Struggle For Electricity In Kandahar Shows Difficulty Of Development Amid War In Afghanistan | Font size Print E-mail Share | (AP) | (AP) | (AP) | (AP) Previous slide Next slide (AP) KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - About 90 factories sit vacant in the e...
Battle to electrify Kandahar shows Afghan dilemma
Denver Post
| KANDAHAR, Afghanistan—About 90 factories sit vacant in the economic capital of southern Afghanistan. They could fight militants in a way no army could, employing thousands of people and giving them a reason to shun the Taliban. | A lack of re...
Battle to electrify Kandahar shows Afghan dilemma
Houston Chronicle
| KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - About 90 factories sit vacant in the economic capital of southern Afghanistan. They could fight militants in a way no army could, employing thousands of people and giving them a reason to shun the Taliban. | A lack of reliab...
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gold jewelry
(photo: Creative Commons / NathanF)
Gold price lifts Harmony's Q2 earnings, output down
Business Report
  | * Q2 headline EPS at 49 cents vs 12 cents loss in Q1 | Submit your comment | Harmony Gold Mining second quarter earnings were lifted by a rise in the price of gold and declining costs despite a drop in production, the South Africa-based company said on Monday. | Harmony posted headline earnings per share of 49 South African cents in the qu...
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gestures as he delivers his speech at a ceremony honoring the late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini at his mausoleum, just outside Tehran, Iran, Monday, June 2, 2008. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday once again turned his fiery rhetoric on Israel and saying that it will soon disappear from the world map. Ahmadinejad was speaking at a ceremony honoring the late founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, on his death anniversar
(photo: AP / Vahid Salemi)
ANALYSIS - Revolution day will put Iran's disunity on show
The Star
| BEIRUT (Reuters) - Iranians are struggling over the legacy and even the legitimacy of an Islamic revolution that triumphed 31 years ago this week. No compromise is in sight. A member of the Iranian community living in Berlin, waves a Iranian flag during a demonstration in Berlin in this July 21, 2009 file photo. (REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz/Files) | O...



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