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3 hrs ago | SF Sentinel

Dark Savagery of Taliban Returns to Afghanistan

The opening night of a new restaurant, and the place is buzzing. The music is a mixture of rock and pop and there is no shortage of alcohol.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan,

7 hrs ago | TheNational

UN Kabul staff begin to arrive in Dubai

Some 30 UN personnel based in Afghanistan were flown to Dubai last night, the first of hundreds due to be temporarily relocated following a deadly attack that targeted the world body in Kabul last month.

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Related Topix: World News, Afghanistan, Asia

11 hrs ago | Dose

Canadian commander issues stern corruption warning to Afghanistan

Western patience with Afghanistan's political class was wearing so dangerously thin that coalition forces might quit the country if the situation regarding governance and corruption did not soon change radically for the better.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai,

Sun Nov 08, 2009

McClatchy DC

To Afghanistan's many problems, now add the flu

As if the Taliban, car bombs, roadside bombs, leftover Soviet land mines, political unrest and errant NATO air attacks weren't enough, Afghans are facing a new killer: the H1N1 flu pandemic.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, Epidemic, Natural Disasters, Wedding,

Athens Banner-Herald

Afghan president: No corrupt officials in new govt

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, under fire from his international partners to clean up his administration, insisted Sunday there's no place for corrupt officials within his government.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama

Kyodo News

U.N. to relocate staff in Afghanistan following deadly attack

The United Nations will relocate around 12 percent of its international staff in Afghanistan due to deteriorating security, the head of the U.N. Mission in Afghanistan said Thursday.

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Related Topix: Afghanistan, World News

Daily Express

These Five Deaths Prove We have to Leave Afghanistan

THE treacherous killing of five British soldiers inside their Shin Kalay base in Helmand by a 'rogue' policeman is bitter proof of the failure of our Afghan war.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, Drugs

Jan Chipchase

From Kabul Fried Chicken to Afghan Fried Chicken

It was another one of those sorties into the city, trying to explain to the driver that we needed to go to the local KFC - Kabul Fried Chicken.

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Related Topix: World News, Afghanistan, Asia, Life, Food, Fast Food

Sat Nov 07, 2009

Military-World

Nato commander wants UK troops 'out of harm's way' for general election

America's top general in Afghanistan believes Britain's 9,000 troops should be removed out of "harm's way" because the Taliban will target them in the run- up to next year's general election, it was reported last night.

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900 CHML AM

Canadian brigadier-general says progress in Afghanistan will be slow

A high-ranking Canadian soldier who is assuming a key role in Afghanistan says Canadians need to temper their expectations ahead of a planned pullout in 2011.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, North America, Canada, Life, Fruits, Food

New York Times

Prospect of More U.S. Troops Worries Afghan Public

CHARIKAR, Afghanistan - As Americans, including President Obama 's top advisers, tensely debate whether to send more American troops to Afghanistan, Afghans themselves are having a similar discussion and voicing serious doubts.

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Czech Happenings

Czech Senate approves replacement of police by soldiers in Kabul

The Czech Senate today approved a government proposal that soldiers from the Czech special force guard the Czech embassy in Kabul next year instead of military policemen.

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Related Topix: Afghanistan, World News, Travel, Afghanistan Travel

WSVN-TV Miami Beach

UN: About 200 staff to be pulled from Afghanistan

The U.N. says hundreds of its staffers will be temporarily pulled out of Afghanistan in the wake of an Oct.

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Related Topix: Afghanistan, World News

The Daily Star

Clashes as Nato hunts for missing soldiers in Afghan

In this file photograph taken on July 26, 2009, British soldiers with the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force walk during a patrol in Baba Ji district of Helmand province.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, US Military, US Army, US Navy

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Tajikistan News.Net

Ban says UN to stay the cours in Afghanistan

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Friday denied the international body is pulling out of Afghanistan.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan,

South Asian Media Net

Rights group for new Bagram policy

WASHINGTON: A human rights group is calling on the United States to develop a new detention policy with Kabul for a US military prison in Afghanistan dubbed the a oeAfghan Guantanamoa .

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Related Topix: Prison, World News, Asia, Afghanistan, US Military Prisons

UPI

Darul-Aman palace in western Kabul

An Afghan man looks on while passing by Darul-Aman palace in western Kabul, Afghanistan on October 31, 2009.

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Top stories from Times Online

Video: inside the burnt-out UN massacre hostel in Kabul

The charred remains of the UN's Bakhtar guesthouse bear testimony to the gruesome events that unfolded here last week.

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Related Topix: Afghanistan, World News, Asia

Winston-Salem Journal

U.N. moves employees in Kabul after attack

The U.N. mission in Afghanistan announced plans yesterday to move hundreds of foreign staff members, sending some out of the country, in the wake of a lethal attack on its workers at a guesthouse last week.

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World News from Times Online

Hero bodyguard fights off Taleban to save United Nations staff

A civilian bodyguard armed with just an assault rifle and a walkie-talkie gave his life after fighting the Taleban for more than 90 minutes when they stormed his guesthouse in Kabul in an attack which left at least a dozen people dead last week.

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