UN report reveals rapid growth of poppy farming as western troops get ready to withdraw, which reflects particularly badly on Britain Twelve years after the fall of the Taliban, Afghanistan is heading for a near-record opium crop as instability pushes up the amount of land planted with illegal but...
Denmark is looking to co-operate with the UK and the US when it comes to the safety of Afghan interpreters. The defence minister, Nick Hækkerup (Socialdemokraterne), said this week that Denmark has an ethical and moral responsibility to the Afghan interpreters who were employed by the Danish milit...
Afghan artists have enjoyed relative freedom in recent years. But with foreign troops packing up, can it last? KABUL, Afghanistan :Despite being about 90 and walking with a severe hunch, Ustad Amruddin will not let anyone else carry his dilruba — a classical stringed instrument that is rarely playe...
After stepping on a Taliban landmine and losing three limbs, Giles Duley now documents an all-too-familar tale of suffering on the border of Jordan and Syria Giles Duley, the award-winning photojournalist who escaped with his life but lost three limbs after stepping on a landmine in Afghanistan in ...
Judged by the media coverage, it is hard not to conclude that western lives are valued much more highly than those of people in Afghanistan, Iraq or the Middle East. -"Stop The War" - The bombing in Boston is a tragedy, and everyone should condemn the actions of people who have destroyed the lives o...
The British invaded Afghanistan in 1839 with high hopes. Before they fought a single Afghan, officers were fighting, soldiers were on half rations and cannons were abandoned. Foreign armies have always, and unwisely, dismissed Afghanistan's fighters. I can remember as early as 1979, several months ...
BEIJING :India and China discussed ways to step up cooperation to counter terror in Afghanistan and in the region as the Taliban and Al Qaeda militant groups attempt to stage a come back in the resource-rich country following the withdrawal of US forces next year. "The two sides had in-depth excha...
KABUL: The killing of innocent civilians, including women and children, in recent attacks by U.S.-led coalition forces against the Taliban insurgents has generated anti- American sentiments among Afghans and could jeopardize the signing of the proposed bilateral security agreement (BSA) between Kabu...
World is unprepared for changes that will see parts of Africa turned into disaster areas, say food experts Millions of people could become destitute in Africa and Asia as staple foods more than double in price by 2050 as a result of extreme temperatures, floods and droughts that will transform the ...
Global warming is exacerbating political instability as tensions brought on by food insecurity rise. With research suggesting the issue can only get worse we examine the risks around the world When the Tunisian street vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire on 17 December 2010, it was in prot...
The drought of 2012 was more about unusual weather patterns than global warming, says a study. But its authors acknowledge the record-smashing event likely will be a puzzle for years to come. Last summer's record-smashing drought in the US heartland was driven far more by natural variability in wea...
THE melting of ice on the Antarctic Peninsula during the summer months is now at its highest level for 1,000 years, according to research. Scientists have for the first time been able to demonstrate that increasing temperatures since the 1960s have caused 10 times more ice to melt than in medieval t...
Taliban leaders came to Doha as a neutral base from which to negotiate with America - two years on they're driving fast cars and "making babies" with negotiations no closer Afghanistan is not the only place on the planet which makes a speciality of going backwards rather than forwards, but it is th...
Anne Smedinghoff was killed walking to a media event, not in an armoured vehicle, but US denies misleading reporters A US diplomat killed by a suicide bomber in southern Afghanistan was walking to a media event at a nearby high school when the attacker struck, and not travelling in a vehicle convoy...
WASHINGTON : Militant groups in Afghanistan could still obtain U.S. government contracts and siphon off American taxpayer dollars because administrative flaws and misunderstandings are hampering a law aimed at weeding out corruption, a top auditor warned Thursday. The special inspector general for...
This week civil war was predicted, a result of giving so much power to warlords after the Taliban's overthrow This week the defence select committee published a report which concluded that civil war in Afghanistan is likely when international forces leave next year. If the predictions of Securing t...
An Associated Press photograph brought the horror of little children lying dead outside of their home to an American Audience. At least 10 Afghan children and some of their mothers were struck down by an airstrike on their extended family household by order of President Barack Obama. He probably dec...
The axiom that political officials abuse their power and lie to the public when operating in the dark is proven yet again "The Guardian" - For years, senior Obama officials, including the president himself, have been making public claims about their drone program that have just been proven to be ca...
- Zionism. Of course, you can be forgiven for thinking it’s extreme lunacy. Extreme lunacy is beyond nightmares; beyond the ravings of perverted murderers; beyond grotesque, drug-induced hallucinations; beyond that which could be conceived by a drunken Nero; beyond something thought up for Caligula...
Last Wednesday night, four members of Pakistan's paramilitary Rangers force were killed when an attacker threw a grenade at their vehicle in Korangi Town, a neighborhood on the east side of Karachi. Despite the Pakistani government touting its historic democratic victory, concern over escalating vio...
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China: High and dry
Water shortages put a brake on economic growth Wang Fuguo, a 63...
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