Afghan war will cost British taxpayers £20 billion by time mission is complete The Daily Telegraph Britain's war in Afghanistan will cost taxpayers almost £20 billion by time the mission draws to a close, new figures have revealed. | Despite the winding down of operations, the remaining years of Afghan operations are estimated to cost the UK at least another £800 million Photo: PA | B...
The NATO Afghan summit: Reality and illusion Al Jazeera | Everything has been moving forward, step by step. At the beginning of May, after months of negotiation, US President Barack Obama made a triumphal appearance at the Afghan Presidential Palace, on the first anniversary of the US military's brilliantly successful raid against Osama bin Laden, to mee...
Tajikistan bans Sacha Baron Cohen's new film WorldNetDaily | (London Daily Mail) The film, which features Baron Cohen as General Aladeen, the tyrannical ruler of the oil-rich north African rogue state Wadiya – has been refused a distribution license. Read the full story › | ...
French troops will leave Afghanistan in 2012: Hollande The Siasat Daily May 20: | French President Francois Hollande has met with US President Barack Obama in Washington and announced that he will withdraw all French combat troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year, as originally scheduled. | "The withdrawal is not ...
4 Nato trucks go to Afghanistan, Pakistan says routes to open soon The Times Of India SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweet WASHINGTON: Pakistan is about to resume normal arrangement of trucks with Nato supplies passing through its territory, the country's top diplomat in Islamabad has said, amidst reports that officials for the first time in si...
Nato summit conference and peace in Afghanistan The Examiner | NATO Summit Conference Chicago, May 21-22, 2012 | The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is holding its 25th summit conference in Chicago from May 21-22, 2012. | NATO's Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has stated that future capabilities an...
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The burqa reminder Chicago Tribune Since a 2009 trip to Kabul, I have kept a sky-blue burqa in my office as a reminder of the responsibility we have to the women of Afghanistan. | As world leaders gather in Chicago ...
President Obama: Silence Is Still Betrayal WorldNews.com Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling | When the White House refused to offer an explanation as to why U.S. air strikes in Afghanistan killed six innocent civilians, not t...
Chinese in bold call for official's removal Al Jazeera | A group of Communist Party veterans has written a daring open letter calling for the removal of China's top security official, in the latest sign of disunity ahead of Beijing's l...
Charting Obama’s Journey to a Shift on Afghanistan The New York Times | It was just one brief exchange about Afghanistan with an aide late in 2009, but it suggests how President Obama’s thinking about what he once called “a war of necessity” began to radically change less than a year after he took up ...
Afghans 'not ready' as US starts pull-out The Independent | The withdrawal plan is revealed in a new report by the US Department of Defense published before this weekend's Nato summit in Chicago. It describes the plans as "the biggest challenge for the remainder of 2012". | Estimates using Nato da...
UK special forces will stay in Afghanistan in anti-terror role The Guardian | Up to 200 British troops will remain after the 2014 pull-out date, alongside 90 training officers Soldiers from B Company, 2 Mercia on an operation in Malgir, Helmand province. Photograph: Omar Sobhani /Reuters | Up to 200 UK special forces service...
The NATO Afghan summit: Reality and illusion Al Jazeera | Everything has been moving forward, step by step. At the beginning of May, after months of negotiation, US President Barack Obama made a triumphal appearance at the Afghan Presidential Palace, on the first anniversary of the US military's brilliantly successful raid against Osama bin Laden, to meet with a beaming Afghan President Hamid Karzai. | ...
We have to adapt to changing styles of wrestling: Sushil Kumar (Interview) Newstrack India | New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) India's Beijing Games bronze medal-winning wrestler Sushil Kumar, who Friday booked his London berth, feels every fighter is on the lookout for an "element of surprise" in the fighting style as every wrestler is studying every other potential rival going through the tapes of bouts. | | The 28-year-old Delhi...
