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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
While ignoring Tuesday's primary contests, former House speaker Newt Gingrich was finding an old niche. After a month of sparring with former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, Gingrich has returned to more comfortable territory criticizing...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 1 year ago
Story continues below Western officials said that the report could be released by the end of the week. All the officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is still in progress...Allen can accept the recommendations or make his...
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Novinite
| 1 year ago
Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev has unexpectedly arrived on a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Wednesday. Plevneliev's trip to Afghanistan is his second official state visit abroad after his inauguration on January 22, 2012, when he replaced two-...
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Baltimore Sun
| 1 year ago
Marchanti II with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, and asked: Was it worth it? Clinton, appearing at a Senate appropriations subcommittee on state and foreign operations, said she could never justify the death of any one person and...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Thousands of Afghans staged new demonstrations Friday over the burning of Korans at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan. Feb. 28 (UPI) -- Violent repercussions in Afghanistan over the inadvertent burning of the Koran by U.S. troops are clearly out of...
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Pak Tribune
| 1 year ago
Afghanistan's spy agency on Monday said that a senior foreign ministry diplomat and three other government officials had been arrested over charges of spying for neighbouring Iran and Pakistan. The men were detained "on charges of spying for...
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HNN
| 1 year ago
Nick Turse is associate editor of TomDispatch.com. An award-winning journalist, his work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Nation , and regularly at TomDispatch . His new TomDispatch series on the changing face of American empire is being...
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Baltimore Sun
| 1 year ago
Pentagon confirmed Monday that a Maryland National Guard major was one of two U.S. military officers shot to death inside a ministry building in the heart of the Afghan capital over the weekend...It was his first deployment to Afghanistan. "We never...
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Leader Post Online
| 1 year ago
Kabul," said General John Allen, adding that the attacker's actions "will not go unanswered." The two American officers, advisers to the ministry, were fired on at close range, a U.S. official said, speaking on condition of anonymity...President...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
Two American military officers were shot and killed Saturday in a heavily secured area inside an Afghan government ministry as a fifth straight day of violent protests raged across the country, Afghan and U.S. officials said. In the latest display of...
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The Age
| 1 year ago
Story continues below Burning with anger across Afghanistan ... protesters shout anti-US slogans. Photo: AFP There were no immediate reports of deaths but Mr Sarjang said people were getting caught underfoot as the mob pushed forward. Police were...
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New Europe
| 1 year ago
US President Barack Obama's apology has not calmed Afghans enraged by the Koran-burning incident at Bagram Air Field earlier this week. On 24 February, seven protesters were killed in the western city of Herat during a fourth day of protests, which...
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BBC South Asia
| 1 year ago
Nato has withdrawn all its personnel from Afghan ministries after two senior officers were shot dead in the interior ministry building in Kabul. Nato said an "individual" had turned his gun on the officers, believed to be an American colonel and...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 1 year ago
Afghanistan were shot dead in the interior ministry in Kabul Saturday, military and government sources said, as anti-US protests raged for a fifth day. Taliban insurgents claimed responsibility for the shooting, saying it was carried out by "a hero...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
U.S. officers shot dead in Afghan Interior Ministry Two American military officers were shot and killed Saturday inside an Afghan government ministry, according to Afghan news reports. International Security Assistance Force confirmed the deaths of...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Seven people were killed and dozens injured Saturday in the fifth day of protests in Afghanistan over burning of Korans at a U.S. military base, officials said. Four people were killed and dozens injured in Kunduz, doctors said, and part of a U.N.
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Mail Online UK
| 1 year ago
Whilst the US has not treated the book with the respect Afghanistan citizens expect killing is far worse a crime than torching a book. Under Islamic law one can burn the Koran as long as the ashes are spread on flowing water...Jon, Manchester, 25/2/...
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Mail Online UK
| 1 year ago
Two Western foreign advisors have been gunned down today inside the heavily barricaded Interior Ministry in the centre of capital Kabul. The ministry has been sealed shut and no one is allowed in or out...The situation was already fragile as Nato...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
At least three demonstrators were killed today, medical sources said, as protesters tried to storm a UN compound in northern Afghanistan in a fifth day of violence over Koran burning. Sahad Mokhtar , head of the public health department in Kunduz ,...
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International Herald Tribune
| 1 year ago
In Laghman, a normally quiet province to the east of Kabul, about 2,000 protesters marched on the governor's residence on Saturday, the police said, in what an official described as a tense and violent situation...Farther north in the province of Sar-...
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Fox News
| 1 year ago
Kabul Afghanistan's Ministry of Defense says six Afghan soldiers have been killed and 16 others wounded while trying to defuse a roadside bomb. The ministry says the soldiers died Saturday in Mukar district of Baghdis province in western...
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The New Zealand Herald
| 1 year ago
Government officials say at least 11 people were killed in protests across Afghanistan yesterday and scores wounded. Since Wednesday, more than 20 people have been killed as rallies turned violent. Among the dead were two US Army soldiers and one...
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Taiwan News
| 1 year ago
Travel & Delicacy Ecological Environment Taiwan News, Staff Writer 2012-02-25 12:34 PM Deadly demonstrations in Afghan istan protesting the burning of the Koran at a U.S. base intensified for a fourth day yesterday even after repeated American...
