THE Scottish Government today gave the green light for the world’s largest wave power scheme, to be developed in the stormy seas off the coast of the Western Isles. Edinburgh-based Aquamarine Power has received full consent from ministers to develop a 40-megawatt wave farm off the north-west coa...
KABUL : Amid the scattered but steadily mounting carnage of the Taliban’s annual spring offensive, including a suicide bombing Monday that killed a provincial council head, hopes of stirring life into peace talks with the Islamist insurgents seem to be dying here with each new suicide attack, ki...
Ancient ruins of Mes Aynak threatened by planned Chinese mining project. Mes Aynak, Afghanistan: Ruins dot each hilltop in mountainous Mes Aynak, an hour's drive south of the capital Kabul. Buddhist monasteries stood here for hundreds of years, and Afghan workers under the supervision of a...
Kabul, Afghanistan: As a young Army Green Beret major in December 2001, Don Bolduc fought shoulder to shoulder in an offensive against Kandahar, the Taliban’s spiritual capital, with a little-known Pashtun resistance commander named Hamid Karzai. The offensive was nearly aborted when a 2,000-...
Herat, Afghanistan: The European Union threw its weight behind developing Afghanistan's small but promising private sector this week, in the hope that business can usher in stability and peace once foreign troops leave by the end of next year. In the largest ever EU visit outside the capital ...
KABUL: Some 12 years ago, it was unthinkable to have Internet cafes in Afghanistan. But today, Kabul, and some other cities and towns in the country, have Internet shops where Afghans, especially students, can surf and look for the information that they need. "I go the Internet cafe usually t...
Delhi: As long ago as 1841, those who tried to govern Afghanistan complained about the country’s paltry income. “But what can be done with a Kingdom whose net revenues are only fifteen Lakhs [1.5m] of Rupees per annum?” wrote a frustrated Sir William Macnaghten from Kabul to his East India Com...
ELECTION 2013 has proved to be an enigma. We are a people in a hurry and immediately after the polling took place on May 11 we had started jumping to conclusions.The facts had still not been ascertained fully, and without facts (and figures in the case of polling which is essentially a numbers g...
A powerful tornado roared through Moore and south Oklahoma City Monday, killing at least 51 people and leaving rescue workers frantically searching for survivors Monday evening at the devastated Plaza Towers Elementary School in the Moore school district. A monstrous tornado killed at leas...
Killing season may push into spring and fall, says study. Residents of Manhattan will not just sweat harder from rising temperatures in the future, says a new study; many may die. Researchers at Columbia University estimate deaths linked to warming climate may rise some 20 percent by the 2020s...
UNITED NATIONS: Migratory birds, which play an important role in the complex web of life known as ecosystem services, are under threat as never before, with some species facing extinction within the next decade. Ahead of the International Day for Biological Diversity on May 22, focused this yea...
PUNE : Ambassador of Afghanistan to India, Shaida Mohammad Abdali, said here on Saturday that Afghanistan needs India's commitment in the defense sector not only for tackling problems such as terrorism in Afghanistan, but also to avoid a spillover effect of the same in India. "India and Afgh...
Afghanistan expects to begin the first commercial oil production in its history in a little under two months. The country's mining minister, Wahidullah Shahrani, has told the ABC processing will start at the Amu Darya basin in Afghanistan's north in July. The project is operated by the Chi...
KABUL, Afghanistan: Even with some legal protections in place, Afghan women, and sometimes even little girls, can be sold to pay family debts. In the country’s vast rural areas, just talking to a man who is not a close relative can be punishable by death. And in some places, girls are routinely ...
Climbing the rickety metal staircase is precarious enough if you aren't on crutches, but it's simply dangerous if you are. At the top is the office of Janbazan-e-Mayhan, one of many social councils for disabled Afghans. Men missing arms, legs or hands sit around the small room. Afghanistan isn'...
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