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| Despite billions aid hunger still stalks women, children |
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| AQCHA (AP): While international forces in Afghanistan battle militants hiding in the mountains, aid agencies are fighting an even more elusive enemy: malnutrition.
Despite the billions spent in Afghanistan... Full Story |
| Cabinet nominations show few signs of change US wants |
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| KABUL/WASHINGTON (NNI): President Hamid Karzai opted for continuity over change in the list of cabinet nominees he presented to Parliament, retaining some leaders supported by the West but also several... Full Story |
| Two-thirds of war veterans suffering from hearing damage |
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| LONDON (INP): More than two-thirds of British troops returning from Afghanistan are suffering severe and permanent hearing damage, according to the most comprehensive study into one of the less well-known... Full Story |
| Warlords re-emerging in North |
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| CHARBOLAK (NNI): Local residents say that the violence is not the work of the Taleban; instead, they point to groups associated with former warlords becoming more visible and aggressive.
Baz Mohammad,... Full Story |
| Afghan killing bares a Karzai family feud |
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| WASHINGTON (NNI): On Oct. 16, four sport utility vehicles barreled into Karz, Afghanistan, the hometown of the country's president, Hamid Karzai, and pulled up to the home of one of his cousins, Yar Mohammad... Full Story |
| ‘Terror-struck’ Pak, Afghan can’t be seen as separate states |
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| Brussels (Agencies): NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said that Pakistan and Afghanistan are facing the common challenge of terrorism, and the menace cannot be effectively dealt with if... Full Story |
| Mullen: It’s a beat-the-clock game |
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| MATA KHAN (Agencies): Adm. Mike Mullen, the personification of American military power, is walking the streets of this dusty village in Paktika province when the deferential deputy governor, Qadir Gul... Full Story |
| Ex-UN man denies plot |
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| UNITED NATIONS (NNI): A former UN envoy to Afghanistan has denied reports that he plotted to unseat President Hamid Karzai with the help of the White House. Peter Galbraith said he simply suggested replacing... Full Story |
| Agri training plan |
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| KUNAR PROVINCE (NNI): A horticulture and forestation technical training program in nine districts of Kunar this month provided skills to hundreds of farmers and staff of the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation... Full Story |
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