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...
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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...
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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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
