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An Afghan military officer stands guard at a checkpoint near a poster of President Hamid Karzai which says "We want peace and national unity in all over of our dear country" in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Nov. 1, 2004. Afghan forces and NATO troops have mounted extra patrols and roadblocks since unidentified armed men on Thursday kidnapped Filipino diplomat Angelito Nayan, and two women - Kosovan Shqipe Habibi and Annetta Flanigan from Northern Ireland. All work for a joint U.N.-Afghan commission overseeing landmark presidential elect
(photo: AP / Emilio Morenatti)
Powerful Afghan Governor Challenges President
Wall Street Journal
By YAROSLAV TROFIMOV | MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan -- An escalating quarrel between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and a powerful governor is stoking fears of bloodshed in one of the country's more peaceful and prosperous provinces. | During this year's presidential election, Balkh Gov. Atta Mohammad...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai answers a question during a joint press conference with Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec. 4, 2007.
(photo: DoD / Tech. Sgt. Jerry Morrison, U.S. Air Force)
Obama's last chance for exit from Afghanistan
The Salt Lake Tribune
| By Gwynne DyerUpdated: 11/04/2009 02:48:37 PM MST | There must be a better way to rig an election. | First the Western powers occupying Afghanistan let President Hamid Karzai stay in the job for months after his term actually expired, on the grounds that an election in the late summer would b...
Uzbek state energy firm seals $2.5 billion plant deal
Business Report
  | Submit your comment | Uzbekistan's state energy company has signed a $2.5 billion (R18.9 billion) deal to create a joint venture with Malaysia's Petronas and South Africa's Sasol to build a synthetic liquid fuel production plant, the state c...
Uzbek state energy firm seals $2.5B plant deal
Syracuse
| (AP) - ALMATY, Kazakhstan - Uzbekistan's state energy company has signed a $2.5 billion deal to create a joint venture with Malaysia's Petronas and South Africa's Sasol to build a synthetic liquid fuel production plant, the state company announced ...
2014 or Bust
Middle East Online
The Pentagon's Building Boom in Afghanistan Indicates a Long War Ahead | In recent weeks, President Obama has been contemplating the future of US military operations in Afghanistan. He has also been touting the effects of his policies at home, report...
Powerful Afghan Governor Challenges President
Wall Street Journal
By YAROSLAV TROFIMOV | MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan -- An escalating quarrel between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and a powerful governor is stoking fears of bloodshed in one of the country's more peaceful and prosperous provinces. | During this year...
This undated photo released by BHP Billiton LTD, shows an aerial view of the Olympic Dam uranium mine, located 560 km (348 miles) north of Adelaide, near the opal mining center of Andamooka. The Australian Cabinet has agreed to sell uranium to India on the condition that inspectors are allowed to ensure the nuclear fuel is used only for peaceful power generation, a newspaper reported Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2007
AP Photo / BHP Billiton LTD
Japan comes knocking for rare earth, uranium stakes
The Australian
| THE Japanese are increasingly looking to secure further resources supplies in Australia, with a focus on rare earths, to stem the dominance China has on the market. | Tomio Harad...
From left, President Barack Obama, Assistant Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Daniel V. Wright and Brig. Gen. Michael S. Repass, commanding general of U.S. Army Special Operations Command, render honors as a team of Soldiers carry the remains of Sgt. Dale R. Griffin during a dignified transfer ceremony at Dover Air Force Base, Del., Oct. 29, 2009.
USAF / Jason Minto
Commander-In-Relief?
WorldNews.com
Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. | When President Barack Obama stood in the pre-dawn darkness at Dover Air Force Base, and when he solemnly observed the retur...
President Barack Obama walks towards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009, en route to New York where he will speak at a memorial service for the late CBS News anchorman Walter Cronkite.
AP / Charles Dharapak
Democrats Are Optimistic That Public Option Will Be Approved
The New York Times
| Several Democratic senators voiced optimism on Sunday that Congress would pass a health care bill containing at least the germ of a government-run insurance program. Their expect...
The hired help: outsourcing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Seattle Times
| In 2003, I was on a trip to Iraq and had arranged an appointment in the Green Zone with a member of the then-Iraqi Governing Council. Security was tight. I was with my Iraqi translator, a middle-aged man who had once been a teacher. When we arrived...
For Karzai, reform or else
Denver Post
But can Afghanistan's government change? | With the "re-election" of President Hamid Karzai (if that's the right word for a process that featured fraudulent balloting and a canceled runoff), the United States now confronts the hardest puzzle of all a...
Incompetence and treachery rife in Afghan police
The Times
| Mentoring the Afghan army is a popular job with British troops, many of whom develop close bonds with the Afghan soldiers they serve alongside, but training Afghan police units is a different matter. | The latter are seen as very much the lower end...
Mining
An emblem is seen on the door of the Bank of England in London, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009.
(photo: AP / Sang Tan)
Need to know: BP biofuel plant ... Emirates profits up ... Aramark acquisition ...
The Times
| View video and Need to Know interactive heatmap | Economics | Quantitative easing: The Bank of England voted to increase its quantitative easing programme by £25 billion, taking it to £200 billion, and to leave interest rates unchanged at 0.5 per cent. | Manufacturing output: Official figures showed that manufacturing output rose by 1.7 per cent ...
Shipping
** FILE ** Tugboats pull the crippled tanker Exxon Valdez towards Naked Island in Prince William Sound, Alaska in this April 5, 1989 file photo. The Supreme Court on Monday, Oct. 29, 2007, agreed to decide whether Exxon Mobil Corp. should pay $2.5 billion in punitive damages in connection with the huge Exxon Valdez oil spill that fouled more than 1,200 miles of Alaskan coastline in 1989. (AP Photo/Rob Stapleton)hg3
(photo: AP / Rob Stapleton)
Timor spill creates 'sea of oil'
Al Jazeera
| As specialist teams extinguished a blaze on an oil rig in the Timor Sea, the 610,000sqkm expanse of water is now, according to campaigners, home to one of the worst environmental disasters in Australian maritime history. | The West Atlas rig on the Montara oil field, located around 690km near the city of Darwin, leaked mi...



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