Energy Department approves expanded LNG exports The Energy Department gave a terminal near Freeport, Tex., permission Friday to ship liquefied natural gas to Japan, providing a new outlet for rising U.S. production of shale gas despite qualms of environmentalists...
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Nearly two dozen Afghan police officers and civilians have been killed in the last few days, including a district police official assassinated over a recent anti-Taliban campaign. ...
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Tracer rounds from 50-caliber machine guns lit up the sky the night I landed at Baghdad International Airport. Like hundreds of thousands of Americans over three decades, I was in the Middle East, in uniform, carrying a gun to protect our national energy...
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Concerns that seeking to amend a law that holds families accountable for women’s mistreatment poses a risk of losing the minimal protections afforded now. ...
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The bill would have banned violence against women, child marriages and forced marriages. Detractors said the bill would bring Western values into Afghanistan.
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NPR | Saturday, May 18, 2013
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SYRIA has been in a state of civil war long enough that it's now beginning to disintegrate, reports Ben Hubbard of the New York Times. His lead paragraph reads like a dispatch from the Wars of the Roses, or a trailer for a new season of Game of Thrones.The...
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Afghan lawmakers block law on women's rights
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NPR | Saturday, May 18, 2013
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A law banning violence against women, considered a major step forward in women's rights in Afghanistan, failed to pass parliament. The law would have also created shelters for abused women, and limited the number of wives permitted to two....
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Conservative religious lawmakers in Afghanistan blocked a law on Saturday that aims to protect women's freedoms, with some arguing that parts of it violate Islamic principles or encourage women to have sex outside of marriage.
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An hour northeast of Barstow, California, there's an army base the size of Rhode Island, complete with a fake Afghan town known as Ertebat Shar. ...
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INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Indiana has canceled subsidies for a planned $1.8 billion fertilizer plant in the state because of concerns that a Pakistani company involved in the project makes products used in improvised explosives that kill and injure U.S....
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An Afghan legislator says conservative lawmakers have blocked a law that aims to protect women's freedoms, saying parts of it violate Islamic principles.
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Afghanistan is believed to be home to world-class mineral deposits, valued at up to $3 trillion and offering hope for the country's economic future. But in the current environment of uncertainty, investors are nervous and it could be many years before...
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An official says motorcycle-riding gunmen have shot dead a police chief who led an anti-Taliban campaign in western Afghanistan in front of his house.
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When Marine Sgt. Ross Gundlach served as a dog handler in Afghanistan, he told the yellow lab who was his constant companion that he'd look her up when he returned home.
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GAME RECAP Blue Jays shut out by Yankee in series opener | Toronto StarThe Star's Recap: Toronto's bats managed a mere two hits against the Yankees in a 5-0 loss on a beautiful spring night before 40,008 at Yankee Stadium. JAYS LINKS Blue Jays quarter-season...
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Last night at the Tampa Bay Rays stadium, 9 year-old Alayna Adams, whose father has been deployed in Afghanistan for the past year, threw out the first pitch only to discover the man in the catcher’s mask was actually her father, Lt. Col. Will Adams....
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Bill Moyers is joined by the heads of two independent watchdog groups keeping an eye on government as well as on powerful interests seeking to influence it. Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics and OpenSecrets.org,...
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An Army general who served as a top official on U.S. joint military staffs in Afghanistan and at the Pentagon is the choice to command U.S. troops in South Korea.
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The Army, Navy and Air Force are using more than 130 megawatts of solar for everything from powering remote special operations to air conditioning and lighting for U.S. base residences. And the forces intend to keep building toward 3 gigawatts of solar...
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By December 2014 the Afghan National Security Forces that have been built by the US and NATO will be left to largely stand on their own....
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PAKISTAN has just turned a new leaf in its chequered political history. With an unprecedented 60 per cent voter turnout, one message has resonated across Pakistan, nay worldwide, regardless of its flaws, imperfections and inadequacies, people of Pakistan...
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45 percent think the U.S. should intervene, but only half can identify the country. ...
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The president's flurry of activity includes a challenge to the GOP on embassy security. ...
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Video: Rays reunite military familyThis one might get you misty: Nine-year-old Alayna Adams threw out the first pitch before Thursday's Tampa Bay Rays-Boston Red Sox game. She was told she'd been selected by the U.S.O. for the honor, partially...
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Republican policy no longer represents the teachings of Jesus. The GOP favors the rich and ignores the poor, disadvantaged, sick, elderly, long-term unemployed, and other unfortunates. Republicans may be religious, but they're not Christians.
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Filed under: Investing Erickson Air-Crane Announces Purchase of Five Aircraft PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Erickson Air-Crane Incorporated (NAS: EAC) ("Erickson" or "the Company"), a leading global provider of aviation services to a diverse mix...
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Military family reunion videos are always a hit with Internet-goers happy to add some good feels to what may be an otherwise boring days. This one, however, puts a new — and especially heart-warming — twist on the genre It features 9-year-old Alayna...
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NPR commits savage act of journalism. Takes no prisoners interviewing Bush Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. ....
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PESHAWAR, May 18: A prayer leader was shot dead by unidentified gunmen at Ring Road near Patang Chowk on Saturday A complainant Abdullah told Faqirabad police he along with his father Maulana Mohammad Younus...
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Conservative religious politicians in Afghanistan yesterday blocked legislation aimed at strengthening provisions for women's freedoms, arguing that parts of it violate Islamic principles and encourage disobedience.
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PESHAWAR, May 18: Pakistani Taliban are unlikely to follow their Afghan counterparts, who recently offered help to their government in carrying out polio campaigns in the country, according to the relevant officials in...
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Today's Deutsche Welle reports that in Afghanistan's Parliament, lawmakers have withdrawn a bill that would have instituted a number of protections for women. The action came after religious parties complained that the proposed law was un-Islamic....
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Conservative religious lawmakers in Afghanistan blocked legislation on Saturday aimed at strengthening provisions for women’s freedoms, arguing that parts of it violate Islamic principles and encourage disobedience.
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Afghanistan expects to begin the first commercial oil production in its history in a little under two months. The country's mining minister, Wahidullah Shahrani, has told the ABC processing will start at the Amu Darya basin in Afghanistan's north in...
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Mustafa Kazemi is an Afghan government official and war correspondent. He posted the following story on his Facebook page. WARNING: Story is extremely graphic (Hat Tip: Weasel Zippers). The 8-years-old girl whose story you’ll read in coming lines did...
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The U.S.A. cannot be the "indispensable nation"The post What Should Americans Die For? appeared first on Human Events....
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Bomber Suspect Still Not IndictedAPSunday marks 30 days since Tsarnaev's arrest for the marathon bombings -- but prosecutors have said they need more time.Exception the lawyers may be seekingMore NewsPolice Chief Accused of ExtortionFood Stamp Cuts Spark...
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The Law on Elimination of Violence Against Women, a 2009 mandate approved by President Hamid Karzai's decree that aims to protect women's rights — specifically, one that bans child marriage and the practice of "baad," selling and buying women to settle...
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U.S. President Barack Obama is trimming his funding request for the Afghan war. The Reuters news agency quotes an unidentified White House aide as saying the president has decreased his request for funding the war in Afghanistan by 10 percent for the...
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The tiny women’s rights movement in Afghanistan faces an unenviable decision: Leave alone a flawed law — the only one to hold families accountable for violence against women and girls — or try to strengthen it even if it means risking dismantling...
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ANAHEIM - The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim will commemorate Armed Forces Day at today's game against the Chicago White Sox at Angel Stadium, with Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, raising an American flag previously flown at a NATO base...
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U.S. Sen. Bob Corker says he is awaiting an explanation from the White House over reports that the United States has made millions of dollars in secret cash payments to President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan. Corker told "The Steve Malzberg Show'' on...
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DES MOINES, Iowa — When Marine Sgt. Ross Gundlach served as a dog handler in Afghanistan, he told the yellow lab who was his constant companion that he’d look her up when he returned home.
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Afghanistan's parliament has delayed action on a measure aimed at protecting women from violence. Rights activists say the move Saturday is a blow to progress made in women's rights in the conservative Muslim country since the ousting of the Taliban...
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As a concession to Republican members of Congress who want to see meaningful entitlement reform President Barack Obama included in his budget the so-called Chained CPI, a cumbersome economic fix that will lead to thousands of dollars lost to Social...
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Des Moines, Iowa - When Marine Sgt. Ross Gundlach served as a dog handler in Afghanistan, he told the yellow lab who was his constant companion that he'd look her up when he returned home.
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The Afghan parliament on Saturday cut short a debate on a bill to protect women from violence after complaints from some traditionalist MPs that it was against Islamic teaching. The Elimination of Violence against Women (EVAW) law, which was passed by...
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