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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says he is making 50 million pounds ($83 million) in new funding available to Pakistan to help the country pacify its lawless border with Afghanistan.
Karachi, Dec 2 (PTI) Not all the Pakistani players are welcome in the next IPL season as the organisers have sought clearance for only five players from the PCB.
A suicide bomber on Tuesday killed a member of Pakistan's northwest provincial assembly and his brother in an attack in the former Taliban stronghold of Swat valley, officials said.
Afghanistan will become the costliest operation for the International Committee of the Red Cross next year, superseding Sudan, the agency said Tuesday as it sought to boost spending on medical care.
Barack Obama will make one of the most consequential – and controversial — speeches of his presidency Tuesday night when he announces he’ll send 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan over the next six months. The White House calls it an “accelerated” push to beat back gains by the Taliban and root out al-Qaida.
President Barack Obama will Tuesday announce a swift six-month surge of 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, but sketch an "end game" to the war by saying an exit strategy will begin within three years.
TRENTON — Groups around New Jersey Wednesday plan to protest President Barack Obama's strategy to escalate the war in Afghanistan.
France will not deploy extra combat troops to Afghanistan but may send more military trainers for Afghan forces, President Nicolas Sarkozy's special envoy to the region said Tuesday.
Italy is considering taking in other prisoners from Guantanamo to help President Barack Obama close down the prison, the country's foreign minister said Tuesday, a day after Italy accepted two former detainees.
President Barack Obama is sending 30,000 extra U.S. troops to Afghanistan on an accelerated timetable that will have the first Marines there as early as Christmas and all forces in place by summer. But he'll also declare Tuesday night that troops will start leaving in 19 months.
The entire world knows our mission revolves around defending the corrupt, rotten, pickpocket government of President Hamid Karzai . But Afghans remember that the Taliban in power were known as much for their law and order as for their brutality.
A gunman opened fire on the house of a newspaper columnist critical of Pakistan's army and spy agencies in an attack the writer alleged on Tuesday was carried out by elements linked to the country's powerful security establishment.
The Daily News' Impact Panel weighed in on President Obama's plan to send more American troops to Afghanistan .
Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama will announce tonight he is sending an additional 30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan and that American forces will begin withdrawing before the end of his first term, administration officials said.
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President Barack Obama campaigned on the promise of bringing troops home from Afghanistan and Iraq as soon as possible. He was elected because war-weary Americans have grown tired of spending money overseas with a recession devastating the homefront.
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