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Advertising Agency: Clemenger BBDO, Melbourne, Australia Executive Creative Director: Ant Keogh Chief Creative Officer: James McGrath. Creative Directors: Julian Schreiber, Tom Martin, Darren Pitt, Rohan Lancaster …
In a speech to the Atlantic Council this week, Major General John Toolan, just returned from a year commanding NATO forces in southwestern Afghanistan , both highlighted the tremendous progress coalition forces have …
Red Star Enterprises Ltd., the controversial ex-supplier of aviation fuel to the Manas Transit Center in Kyrgyzstan, has lost full control of a lucrative fuel contract at Bagram air base in Afghanistan .
Matthew Rosenberg (@mrosenbergNYT) and Alissa J. Rubin (@Alissanyt) report that senior American officials, acting at the behest of President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan , told Representative Dana Rohrabacher of …
Nearly two dozen members of the Army National Guard returned to Pittsburgh from Afghanistan Friday night. The soldiers traveled 15 hours to get to Pittsburgh International Airport where loved ones were gathered.
It certainly doesn’t look much like what we’re seeing in Afghanistan today. A feckless, corrupt, incompetent government kept alive and in place (we can’t really say “in power” since its reach doesn’t extend much beyond Kabul) …
Thousands of rural workers in Honduras have occupied land as part of a dispute with large landowners and the government. The coordinated invasions took place in several locations across the country, activists and officials …
Britain, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Ireland are all now in recession. The Netherlands and France have not yet succumbed, but weak economic data have roiled their governments, contributing to the collapse of the Dutch …
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal takes a further look at the big business of doner, visiting a trade fair devoted just to this fast growing industry, in which Germany has now become a heavy weight player, producing …
Photographs from France , England, North Korea and India.
KABUL (PAN): The European Union said Afghanistan policy makers need to improve the nation’s governance as it would be crucial denominator, when international community decides on future funding for the …
Lack of rainfall is placing Ethiopia at risk of a severe hunger crisis in the coming months. (..) School feeding vital to Ethiopia as drought revisits region. (..) Judith Schuler, WFP information officer in Ethiopia , provides us an …
COM DEV International Ltd. (TSX: CDV), a leading manufacturer of space hardware subsystems, announced that the Yahsat Y1B satellite has been successfully launched into orbit with COM DEV-built microwave components …
This year, the United Kingdom hosts the Olympic Games, and security services are on particularly high alert. Magnifying an already tense environment, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and then al-Qaeda released …
For the sake of Afghanistan, U.S. officials routinely invoke the importance of nurturing economic growth across South and Central Asia . But when it comes to advancing policies meant to increase regional trade, Washington …
Is Canada doing its own pivot toward the Asia -Pacific? It will need to focus more on Southeast Asia if it is serious about one.
Brazil’s financial markets and domestic policies may feel some unexpected turbulence being dragged into the slipstream of President Obama’s presidential election campaign.
In Argentina the government of President Christina Kirchner Fernandez is moving to reclaim the YPF energy company. Looking behind the scenes, what is really driving Argentina’s seemingly quixotic energy policies?
It’s hard out here for us old Africa hands. We are desperate to see more coverage of important stories from the continent and for our neighbors to become more educated about the places where we study and work. Yet when …
Despite many recent upbeat pronouncements by an A-list of U.S. opinion makers, it’s not clear that the U.S. has a clearer plan for Afghanistan than it has since the conflict there began.
KABUL, Afghanistan — NATO says that two service members have been killed in separate attacks in southern Afghanistan , while two others have died of non-battle injuries. The coalition said in statements that one service …
Babies born in Afghanistan on the day our first boots hit the soil there are now 11 years old. They are in 5th or 6th grade. Their generation has more in school than any generation in history. But they are still only 11 years old.
KABUL, Afghanistan — A new report Wednesday by a Kabul-based think tank accuses international forces of misleading the public by calling military operations “Afghan-led” even in cases where NATO or U.S. forces are the …
WASHINGTON — Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, the Army officer who accused Pentagon leaders earlier this year of lying to the public about the progress of the war in Afghanistan , said on Wednesday that the country is heading toward …
However, France uses the two-round electoral system (along with beacons of democracy such as Afghanistan, Argentina, Ukraine, and Zimbabwe). Sunday’s ballot was thus no more than a preliminary test — the real election …
Citing “historic changes,” the European Union on Monday announced it would suspend nearly all sanctions on Burma for a year. The new policy, which goes into effect this week, will ease trade, economic, and personal …
ISG is seeking candidates for a UNDP funded assignment to develop the public-private partnership guidelines in Uganda. The purpose of this assignment is to enhance the institutional and individual capacities of National …
To be sure, London Metropolitan University is not the first institution in Britain to bend over backwards to avoid “offending” Muslims. In fact, hardly a day goes by in which Britons are not surrendering some aspect of their culture …
Salah Abbas Habib, 36, a Bahraini protester found dead on a rooftop after clashes with police during the Formula One Grand Prix, was buried on Monday after a funeral attended by about 15000 people, a Reuters witness said …
While it is evident how China has been developing a distinctive domestic approach to the Internet and the role of media in society more generally, whether and how the ideas informing this approach are spreading is far less …
Preventing BH from exploiting sectarian tension is therefore paramount, but shoring up the support of northern political figures while driving through a reformist agenda will be no easy task.
It’s a sign of the times: Hollywood heart-throbs, pop divas and TV chat show celebrities are turning on the mood music for America’s never-ending global war. In a world of lawlessness, state terrorism, rank mendacity and war …
KABUL, Afghanistan — The U.S. and Afghanistan reached a deal Sunday on a long-delayed strategic partnership agreement that ensures Americans will provide military and financial support to the Afghan people for at least …
KABUL, Afghanistan — With a pact that still leaves a number of substantive, and potentially deal-breaking, issues to negotiate, the United States and Afghanistan came to a preliminary agreement on Sunday over a lasting …
The long-waited withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan may be not as “full” as had been expected. The US will help defend the country militarily for at least a decade after Afghans take control of their security, a National …
Five were freed in Albania in 2006, while George W. Bush was still President, and the administration accepted that it was unsafe to return them to China, but the 17 other men — including the two released in El Salvador — had …
The Department of Defense announced the transfer of two Uighur detainees from Guantanamo to El Salvador yesterday. The two detainees were not named in the DoD’s press release. But according to the New York Times …
I don’t know, you know, the exact extent of that,” Panetta said when asked whether China had been supporting North Korea’s missile program through ” trade and technology exchanges.” The Hermit Kingdom has had few …
The importation into Canada of Republican Party tactics for stealing votes and elections is an extension of a very old process that has seen the constitutional monarchy in the northern half of North America assimilated more …
Assange lawyer delayed while flying to Australia . By Mike Head; 20 April 2012 – WSWS http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/apr2012/assa-a20.shtml. An Australian lawyer who previously acted on behalf of WikiLeaks founder …
Chris Workman was among four soldiers killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan Thursday. Workman’s parents received the devastating news from military personnel who came knocking on their door in Rupert early Friday …
In Afghanistan it may be a matter of navigating the Pashtuns, Hazaras and Tajiks, and their various families, while in Brooklynbad, Al-Minneapolis or Londonistan it’s Somalis, Turks and Lebanese, but it’s still much the same …
KABUL, Afghanistan — When a half-dozen Taliban militants stormed the Intercontinental Hotel here last June in a bloody overnight siege, a photograph of a team of NATO special operations soldiers, their hands and clothes …
A country robbed of peace and bereft of aspirations, Afghanistan seems to be plunging more and more into a pitiful morass of grievances brought about by the military madness the US troops exhibit in the beleaguered land …
In Afghanistan , living off the grid isn’t a tree hugger’s dream — it’s reality. but a renewable-power startup called Sustainable Energy Services Afghanistan is lighting up Afghans’ lives, with help from the sun and the wind.
The approval, which is expected to be announced on Thursday, would take Sony one step closer to owning the largest catalog of songs in the world. The deal is still under review in the United States.
“[This] explosive cocktail of ultraliberal measures … reveals the true face of this Brussels-ruled Europe : a machine to crush people and social models,” fulminated far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen. The European …
The Nubians are an ethnic minority that live in southern Egypt and northern Sudan, and they were forced to migrate from their land several times between 1902 and 1964. Apart from losing their land, their language and culture …
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