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Kerry confronts clashing interests in Syria, Iran and Russia
This time will be different. That is the word from U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to Syrian rebels who have become so frustrated by empty promises of help to overthrow President Bashar Assad that they had threatened to boycott a Thursday meeting in...Tags: Rebellions, U.S. Department of State, National Government, Government, Woodrow Wilson
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10 Afghan police officers, seven others drugged and slain
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Ten members of an Afghan rural paramilitary force and seven others were drugged and killed at an outpost in a volatile eastern province, officials said Wednesday, in the latest deadly poisoning attributed to Taliban insurgents. The...
Tags: Rebellions, Physical Conditions, U.S. Department of Defense, Civil Rights, Afghanistan
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Afghan bombings kill at least 11 police officers
KABUL, Afghanistan — At least 11 police officers were killed and numerous civilians injured in two bombings Saturday in the north and east of Afghanistan. Among the dead were the police counter-terrorism chief and the head of the traffic police in...
Tags: Armed Conflicts, Bombings, Suicide, Taliban, Afghanistan
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Charity helps foreign troops take Afghanistan pets home
KABUL, Afghanistan — She was just an ordinary brown mutt, a stray, but Pvt. Conrad Lewis loved her. Lewis, a British paratrooper in Afghanistan's Helmand province, adopted the dog and named her Pegasus. Everyone called her Peg. In his letters...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Rabies, United Kingdom, U.S. Army, Iraq
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Suicide bombers attack Afghanistan's spy agency
KABUL, Afghanistan -- A team of suicide bombers attacked a compound belonging to Afghanistan's spy agency Wednesday, killing at least one guard and injuring 33 civilians in a brazen strike at the heavily fortified heart of the capital, officials said....
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Motorvehicle Accidents, Armed Conflicts, Bombings, Emergency Incidents
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Hollywood truth is stranger than fiction
For a debut novelist with a quiet literary sensibility to take on the bloated, overexposed milieu of celebrity culture — and to approach it as a head-on dissection — requires a certain bravado. The soul-sucking Hollywood machine is an area...Tags: Robert Redford, Arts and Culture, Celebrities, Clint Eastwood, Literature
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Fawad Mohammadi ('Buzkashi Boys') takes a long trip to the Oscars
KABUL, Afghanistan — On a recent afternoon here in the Afghan capital, 14-year-old Fawad Mohammadi stood shivering on a muddy corner, scanning the street for customers who might buy one of his maps. But his thoughts were elsewhere: the Oscars....Tags: Entertainment, Entertainment Events, U.S. Department of State, Arts and Culture, Angelina Jolie
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Panetta, NATO partner, differ on troop numbers
BRUSSELS (AP) — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and his German counterpart offered conflicting accounts Friday of a discussion about how many U.S. and European forces would remain in Afghanistan after the anticipated end of combat after 2014....
Tags: U.S. Congress, International Military Interventions, U.S. Department of Defense, Defense, Anders Fogh Rasmussen
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Oscar-nominated short films a mixed and marvelous bag
The experience of watching five short animation or live-action films in one sitting — each a finalist for an Oscar in two of this year's shorts categories — can be a bit like walking into a museum to find the Rothko's been hung next to the...
Tags: Entertainment, Entertainment Events, Arts and Culture, Curfew (movie), Movies
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Victory in Afghanistan? Not without U.S. troops
During the Vietnam War, Sen. George Aiken, a Vermont Republican, was famous for suggesting that we declare victory and go home. (What he actually said is a little more nuanced, but that was the popular perception.) President Obama seems to be pursuing a...
Tags: National Government, Government, Hamid Karzai, Employees, U.S. Department of Defense
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Remarkable Woman: Connie Duckworth
In a bombed-out cinder block shelter in Kabul, Afghanistan, in the cruel cold of January, Connie Duckworth found the road map for the rest of her life. "I view life as a journey," she says. "Sometimes you're going around a curve and you really don't...
Tags: Feminism, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC, Government, Politics
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Civilian deaths in war in Afghanistan drop for first time in 6 years
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.KABUL, Afghanistan -- Civilian deaths in the war in Afghanistan dropped in 2012 for the first time in six years, a sign of lessening hostilities, but insurgents dramatically expanded their campaign of assassinating government supporters, the United...Tags: Rebellions, War in Afghanistan (2001-present), United Nations, Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan
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