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Death of Flight Sergeant Andrew Forster

Press Release: The Maori Party Notice of Motion: The death of Flight Sergeant Andrew Forster Hon Dr Pita Sharples, Co-leader of the Maori Party Tuesday 24 November 2009 The Maori Party stands to convey our respects to the...

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Climate change not welcome at Chogm

Foreign Minister Murray McCully does not want to see the Commonwealth meetings in Trinidad and Tobago this week taken over by "Copenhagen issues".Mr McCully will begin meetings tonight with his Commonwealth counterparts in the...

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Links between the Taliban and al Qaeda have grown stronger,

The current state of the Taliban Kaustav Chakrabarti: Mr. Rahimullah Yousufzai, you have been following different armed movements in the region, particularly the Taliban, for several decades now. What do you think about the...

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Taliban suffocate Pakistan’s Buddhist heritage

Taxila (Pakistan), Nov. 22 : Archaeologists warn that the Taliban are destroying Pakistan’s ancient Gandhara heritage and rich Buddhist legacy as pilgrimage and foreign research dries up in the country’s northwest. "Militants...

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In Indiana, practice for 'civilian surge' in Afghanistan

CAMP ATTERBURY, IND. -- Outside a scruffy, two-story building, armed and flak-jacketed U.S. soldiers stood watch under a sagging Afghan flag. Inside, the provincial governor, a Hamid Karzai look-alike in a striped robe and...

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Air force casualty 'awesome all-round Kiwi bloke' - family

An air force flight sergeant killed by an artillery shell which exploded at Waiouru Military Camp yesterday was a devoted family man and an "awesome all-round Kiwi bloke", his brother-in-law said today.Flight Sergeant Andrew...

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Shell blast kills Afghanistan veteran

A bomb disposal expert was killed by an artillery shell explosion just weeks after he returned from active service in Afghanistan.Flight Sergeant Andrew Bruce Forster, 46, was marking munitions for disposal at the Waiouru army...

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Clare Lockhart's Four Ways to Fix Afghanistan

Once before, she was charged with rebuilding Afghanistan. When Clare Lockhart arrived in Kabul in January 2002, she was an optimistic twenty-eight-year-old veteran of the United Nations and the World Bank who had just played a...

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Karzai set to sacrifice lambs, not wolves

Afghanistan's beleaguered President Hamid Karzai makes his inauguration speech tomorrow, acutely aware that his disgruntled international backers will be poring over it for signs that he intends to mend his ways. But while he...

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5,000 more European troops expected for Afghan war (AP)

AP - Britain's prime minister said Friday that Europe may send 5,000 more soldiers to Afghanistan — affirming support for the NATO mission as the Obama administration nears a decision on increasing American troop levels.

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