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Obama's advisers at war over Afghan conflict
President accused of dithering as leaked memo reveals bitter divisions over strategy in his inner circle
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Friday, 13 November 2009
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Friday, 13 November 2009
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Friday, 13 November 2009
Cambodia has expelled a senior diplomat at the Thai embassy, and Thailand responded in kind as the two nations carried on a sharp dispute over the fugitive former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
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Thursday, 12 November 2009
Nato is disputing the views of the US Ambassador, who advised President Obama against a military surge.
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Thursday, 12 November 2009
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Thursday, 12 November 2009
Report reveals how Chinese citizens with grievances are being silenced in prisons government says do not exist
Hiroshima hails Barack, but he's too busy to visit
Thursday, 12 November 2009
It was a speech Tsutomu Yamaguchi had waited 64 years to hear. Watching television at home in Hiroshima in April, one of Japan's most famous A-bomb survivors heard an American president call for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
Afghan police need three years of training
Thursday, 12 November 2009
The Afghan National Police needs another three years of training and investment to be turned into a credible force, said a senior British officer. Lieutenant Colonel Jasper de Quincey Adams, chief mentor to the ANP, said a professional force would not be created overnight, but methods such as "embedded partnering", where British and Afghan forces live and work by each other, were making progress.
How an old banger turned Nepali minister into a slapper
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Memo to all Nepali civil servants: when junior minister Karina Begum arrives in town, send the smartest, swankiest government car to pick her up. Or else expect to get slapped.
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