Feed: Alertnet | Search phrase: afghanistan | Source: Reuters (Adds comments by U.S. official in Washington, paragraphs 5-6) By Sayed Salahuddin KABUL, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's government sought to avert a run on the country's top ...
Feed: NYT | Search phrase: afghanistan | Did the attack in northern Afghanistan hit a team of election campaign workers, including a parliamentary candidate, or a group connected with an Uzbek terrorist network?
Feed: Alertnet | Search phrase: afghanistan | Source: Reuters (For more on Afghanistan click ) * Discussions to start in mid-September * NATO allies want to shift security powers to Afghans By Phil Stewart KABUL, Sept 2 (Reuters) - The ...
Feed: Alertnet | Search phrase: afghanistan | Source: Reuters * Half the cash of year ago in Helmand, U.S. general says * Helmand produces more than half of Afghanistan's opium * U.S. general says insurgents groups getting smaller By Jim Wolf WASHINGTON ...
Feed: NYT | Search phrase: afghanistan | Afghanistan's top bank official tried to calm fears of a meltdown at Kabul Bank, while scores of Afghans were unable to withdraw money from the bank.
Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: afghanistan | Instead of producing reports 3,000 pages long, the IPCC should focus only on the key questions that everyone is interested inIf the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change didn't exist, would we need to invent it? Many people find it helpful to have a single point of reference on the big, global questions that everyone is interested in: can we detect human influence on climate, how large are changes expected to be in future, what are the main impacts likely to be and what can (not should) be done about it? These are questions on which the level of scientific consensus is far higher than most non-scientists believe, so an institution like the IPCC clearly has a role to play to assess and communicate the extent and limits of that consensus.
Feed: WAPO | Search phrase: afghanistan | DUBAI - As depositors thronged branches of Afghanistan's biggest bank, Mahmoud Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a major shareholder in beleaguered Kabul Bank called on Thursday for intervention by the United States to head off a financial meltdown.
Feed: CNN Top Stories | Search phrase: afghanistan | The Central Bank of Afghanistan has said it won't allow the country's biggest private financial institution to collapse in the wake of U.S. media allegations of corruption and heavy losses.
Feed: Alertnet | Search phrase: afghanistan | Source: Reuters (For more on Afghanistan, click on ) By Sayed Salahuddin KABUL, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's government sought to avert a run on the country's top private bank by nervous investors ...
Feed: NYT | Search phrase: afghanistan | Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates arrived on an unannounced visit for meetings with American military commanders and President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan.
Feed: CNN Top Stories | Search phrase: afghanistan | Ten parliamentary campaign workers were killed in a NATO air strike in northeastern Afghanistan on Thursday, a provincial official said.
Feed: BBC World | Search phrase: afghanistan | The head of Afghanistan's Central Bank tells the BBC he will not allow the country's biggest commercial bank to collapse.
Feed: CNN Top Stories | Search phrase: afghanistan | U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Afghanistan Thursday to consult with political and military officials.
Feed: Alertnet | Search phrase: afghanistan | Source: Reuters (For more on Afghanistan, click on ) KABUL, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai strongly condemned an air strike by foreign forces on Thursday that he said killed 10 campaign ...
Feed: BBC World | Search phrase: afghanistan | Nato-led troops investigate reports that 10 election campaigners have been killed in an air strike by foreign forces in northern Afghanistan.
Feed: Alertnet | Search phrase: afghanistan | Source: Reuters (For more on Afghanistan, click on ) (Updates possible toll to 10 killed, adds attack in southeast) TALOOQAN, Afghanistan, Sept 2 (Reuters) - An apparent air strike by foreign forces ...
Feed: Alertnet | Search phrase: afghanistan | Source: Reuters Sept 2 (Reuters) - A U.S. service member from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed in an insurgent attack in eastern Afghanistan, an ISAF spokesman said on Thursday ...
Feed: Independent | Search phrase: afghanistan | An apparent air strike by foreign forces killed six election campaign workers in Afghanistan's north today, a government spokesman said, and NATO-led forces said hey were investigating the incident.
Feed: Alertnet | Search phrase: afghanistan | Source: Reuters (For more on Afghanistan, click on ) TALOOQAN, Afghanistan, Sept 2 (Reuters) - An apparent air strike by foreign forces killed six election campaign workers in Afghanistan's north on ...
Feed: Alertnet | Search phrase: afghanistan | Source: Reuters (For more on Afghanistan, click on ) Sept 2 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Afghanistan at 0700 GMT on Thursday. EASTERN AFGHANISTAN - A U.S. service member from the ...
Feed: Alertnet | Search phrase: afghanistan | Source: Reuters Sept 2 (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors have charged the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud, in the plot that killed seven CIA employees at a U.S. base in Afghanistan last December. ...
Feed: NYT | Search phrase: afghanistan | President Bronislaw Komorowski said Wednesday that the rising cost of the war in Afghanistan was hampering a program to modernize the military.
Feed: NYT | Search phrase: afghanistan | A German citizen has been arrested by United States troops in Afghanistan, the German Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
Feed: CNN Top Stories | Search phrase: afghanistan | Hakimullah Mehsud, a key leader of the Pakistani Taliban, has been charged for his alleged involvement in the killings of seven U.S. citizens at an American military base in Afghanistan in 2009, the U.S. Justice Department announced Wednesday.
Feed: NYT | Search phrase: afghanistan | The Al Qaeda-linked group has been accused of playing a role in the failed Times Square bombing in May and in the suicide-bombing at a C.I.A. base in Afghanistan in December.
Feed: NYT | Search phrase: afghanistan | Afghanistan's top bank official tried to calm fears of a meltdown of the Kabul Bank a day after the bank changed its leadership following the discovery of losses approaching $300 million.
Feed: NYT | Search phrase: afghanistan | While many security operations in Afghanistan are joint ones between NATO and Afghan forces, in most of them, the phrase "Afghan-led" is little more than a polite fiction. This was an exception.
Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: afghanistan | Authorities remove two Kabul Bank executives amid allegations of corruption and mismanagementAfghan authorities today attempted to prevent a potentially catastrophic run on the country's biggest bank after allegations of corruption and mismanagement led regulators to replace two of its top executives.The revolution at the top of Kabul Bank, which is responsible for paying the salaries of nearly all the country's policemen and soldiers, has caused shock in the capital amid fears of a collapse in confidence in Afghanistan's ramshackle and corrupt financial system.
Feed: WAPO | Search phrase: afghanistan | The U.S. government designated the Pakistani Taliban a terrorist group Wednesday and accused its leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, of involvement in a December suicide bombing that killed seven Americans at a forward CIA post in eastern Afghanistan.
Feed: Alertnet | Search phrase: afghanistan | Source: Reuters BERLIN, Sept 1 (Reuters) - A German citizen has been arrested by U.S. troops in Afghanistan, the German foreign ministry said on Wednesday, after a newspaper reported he was being held on suspicion of ...
Feed: Alertnet | Search phrase: afghanistan | Source: Reuters WASHINGTON, Sept 1 (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors have charged the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud, for the plot that killed seven CIA employees at an American base in Afghanistan ...
Feed: Alertnet | Search phrase: afghanistan | Source: Reuters SARAJEVO, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Bosnia's national parliament on Wednesday endorsed a decision by the country's presidency to send a 45-man strong infantry unit to join the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan ...
Feed: Alertnet | Search phrase: afghanistan | Source: Reuters (For more on Afghanistan, click on ) By Jonathon Burch KABUL, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Central Bank on Wednesday said the directors of one of the country's top private banks had ...
Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: afghanistan | Former PM defends foreign policy record, revealing that the experience of Iraq and Afghanistan has not diminished his commitment to taking on opponentsGlobalisation has made military intervention in rogue regimes overseas more necessary than ever, Tony Blair argues in his memoirs. Not toppling Robert Mugabe from his dictatorship in Zimbabwe is one regret voiced by the former prime minister.His belief that Iran needs to be confronted in its nuclear ambitions and by implication, as a last resort prevented by force, shines through. The experience of Iraq and Afghanistan has not diminished his commitment to taking on opponents.His appetite for international affairs, he admits, has been sharpened by his role as a mediator in the Middle East.
Feed: Alertnet | Search phrase: afghanistan | Source: Reuters Sept 1 (Reuters) - Four U.S. troops serving with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed by two roadside bomb attacks in the east of the country, ISAF said on Tuesday ...
Feed: WAPO | Search phrase: afghanistan | KABUL - Hundreds of nervous account holders waited for hours Wednesday to withdraw their money from Kabul Bank, even as officials sought to assure them that the country's largest private bank was not in danger of collapsing.
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