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NATO's deadliest month in Afghan warKabul (AFP) July 1, 2010 The loss of more than 100 foreign troops in the Afghan war in June serves as a grim reminder to the international community of why Afghanistan is known as the "graveyard of empires". At 102, the June toll almost tripled the number of US and NATO soldiers killed in May, making the month the deadliest since the war began in 2001. The new commander of the Afghan war, US General David Petraeus, warned this week the fighting will get tougher before the situation on the ground improves. Petraeus, ... read more |
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Aden, Yemen (UPI) Jul 1, 2010 The southern separatist movement in Yemen is growing ever more violent and there are concerns it may gravitate toward al-Qaida and trigger a new civil war that will spell the end of a united country. In recent months, southern demands for secession have swelled and anti-government protests have become more violent. Dozens of people have been killed or wounded when troops fired on demons ... more  
Toronto (UPI) Jul 1, 2010 The United States agreed to a request by South Korea to delay the transfer of wartime operational control of troops on the Korean Peninsula. The decision to postpone the control of forces from 2012 to 2015 followed a meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak in Toronto. U.S. Defense Department officials were quoted as telling U.S. media ... more  
Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan (UPI) Jul 1, 2010 It may be an Apollo 13 moment in Afghanistan. After the explosive of the fuel cells, which crippled the command module, the NASA flight director, approached the problem from the standpoint of status asking the Mission Control team "what do we have on the spacecraft that's good?" Maybe the same status check should also be done for Afghanistan. No doubt encouraged by the ann ... more |
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Uighur leader appeals to world year after unrestWashington (AFP) July 1, 2010 One year since China's worst ethnic violence in decades, the exiled leader of the Uighur minority has seen a surge of global interest in her cause but says the world can do far more. Long an obscure issue to much of the world, the simmering resentment against Beijing's rule by the mostly Muslim Uighur community burst into the open in July last year as riots engulfed Urumqi, capital of the vast Xinjiang region. The violence catapulted into the spotlight Rebiya Kadeer, a department store tycoon tu ... read more |
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