Kalash team in Afghanistan to get Greek engineer freed

Taliban suicide attack kills 17 in Afghan capital

By: genius-world

KABUL – A suicide car bomber detonated his vehicle outside the Indian Embassy in the bustling center of the Afghan capital Thursday, killing 17 people in the second major attack in the city in less than a month. The Afghan Foreign Ministry hinted at Pakistani involvement — a charge Pakistan denied. The blast occurred a day after the ...

about 1 month ago

TRANSCRIPT: Obama's Speech On Afghanistan Escalation

By: amalgam80

Our President has decided to further escalate the war in Afghanistan, focusing heavily on the training of Afghans and the problems in Pakistan.   Below is the speech in its entirety. I have put in bold some of the things that stuck out for me.           REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENTTO THE NATIONON THE WAY ...

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Obama’s Nobel puzzles Pakistanis

By: OwaisBinImdad

While US President Barack Obama is seen as an improvement over former president George Bush, many Pakistanis feel the president has not done enough to merit the peace prize, the Chicago Tribune has reported.Pakistanis are still wary of Obama and his policies. For they, Obama represents a marked improvement over his predecessor Bush. He believes in ...

about 1 month ago

Green Roofs in Greece

By: GreenRoofsGreece

  Roof greening is as old as the hills, literally. So called human civilisation has passed through three distinct stages of development1 The first stage of development and differentiation from the rest of the animal kingdom was the rise of the so called agricultural civilisation c.8000 bc, which saw groups of humans, usually extended ...

about 1 month ago