Afghanistan News
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A German man who said he was mistaken for a terrorist more than eight years ago and tortured by U.S. agents had his suit against Macedonia heard by the European Court of Human Rights after his claims were rejected in three countries.
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India set up a $2 billion currency swap arrangement to allow South Asian nations easier access to foreign currency funding, the Reserve Bank of India said.
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Mitt Romney decried the ballooning federal debt, accusing President Barack Obama of contributing to a mounting deficit he said stifles economic recovery and “threatens what it means to be an American.”
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Australia, a military ally of the U.S., will contribute $300 million starting 2015 to support Afghanistan’s forces after the Asian nation becomes responsible for its own security, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said today.
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Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari was invited to the Chicago summit by North Atlantic Treaty Organization Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen to discuss security issues and Afghanistan’s future, the president’s spokesman said in a statement.
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President Francois Hollande will spend his first hours as French president huddled in meetings today with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, underscoring rising concern that Greece is headed out of the euro.
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Public safety agencies will be able to operate unmanned aircraft with fewer restrictions, in the first changes in U.S. regulations that Congress ordered to broaden domestic use of non-military drones.
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The iPhone has become a symbol of something Steve Jobs never envisioned: Chinese sweatshops.
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Francois Hollande will be sworn in tomorrow as president of France and hit the road hours later to confront issues from Afghanistan to the Greek crisis.
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Republican and Democratic lawmakers are urging U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to designate a militant group behind attacks on NATO forces in Afghanistan as a “foreign terrorist organization,” an action which might further strain U.S. relations with Pakistan.
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