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  • US Taliban to have direct peace talks

    The US has decided to hold direct peace talks with the Taliban, senior White House officials have announced. The first meet is due to take place in the coming days in Qatar's capital, where the Taliban have opened their first official overseas office, BBC reported. US officials told reporters the first formal meeting between the US and Taliban representatives was expected to take place in Doha ...

  • Afghan peace council members to talk with Taliban in Qatar Karzai

    Kabul, June 18 (Xinhua-ANI): Some members of Afghan High Peace Council will travel to the Gulf state of Qatar to hold formal peace talks with the Taliban, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Tuesday. "Members of peace council will go to Qatar to initiate peace talks with the Taliban," Karzai told a joint press conference with the visiting NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. Earlier ...

  • NATO hands over security to Afghans

    NATO Tuesday handed over security to Afghan forces for the whole of Afghanistan for the first time since the Taliban were ousted in 2001. At a ceremony in Kabul, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said that from Wednesday "our own security and military forces will lead all the security activities", BBC reported. Tuesday's ceremony saw the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) hand ...

  • Afghan forces to lead all military operations from June 19 Karzai

    Kabul, June 18 (Xinhua-ANI): Afghan national forces will lead all military operations in the country from June 19, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Tuesday. "Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) will lead all military operations from tomorrow," Karzai told a ceremony attended by high- ranking Afghan officials and the NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen in Kabul. The Afghan ...

  • Weak appointments undermine Afghan rights body

    Afghan President Hamid Karzai's appointment of a weakly qualified human rights commission with little public consultation raises concerns about the country's most important rights body, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. On June 15, Karzai announced the appointment of five new commissioners to the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC), most of whom appear to have little or no ...


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The title of John Waters' "Mondo Trasho" pretty much sums up the movie. Basically an hour and a half of amateurly produced celluloid garbage, this movie is memorable only as the first serious outing of one of America's most provocative, fiery, satirical, and ultimately hilarious filmmakers. Well, I guess "serious" isn't the right word. I'm not sure that anything John Waters has ever done is seriou ... ...

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  • 3 killed in suicide bombing in Kabul

    At least three civilians were killed and many others wounded Tuesday morning when a suicide bombing hit west of Afghan capital Kabul, witnesses said. "A suicide bomber targeted the convoy of Hajji Mohammad Muaqiq, a member of lower house of Afghan parliament but Muaqiq escaped the attack," a witness told Xinhua. The attack took place in Pul-e-Surkh area, where the Afghan Human Rights office is ...

  • Malala denounces cowardly attack on female students bus in Pakistan

    Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban for promoting girls' education, has denounced an attack on a bus carrying female students in Quetta as 'cowardly'. At least 25 people were killed on Saturday when militants blew up the bus in Quetta and then stormed a hospital where survivors had been taken for treatment. According to Fox News, the 15-year-old said the attack ...

  • U.S. to hold meeting with Taliban

    U.S. officials will soon hold their first formal political meeting with the Taliban in an effort to kickstart peace talks between the armed opposition and Afghanistan’s government, senior Obama administration officials said Tuesday. The talks will follow the expected release of a statement from the Taliban that it opposes "the use of Afghan soil to threaten other countries" and ...

  • Canada Deploys 900 Military Personnel to Afghanistan

    Ottawa, June 18 (Prensa Latina) Canada started sending 900 soldiers to Afghanistan to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to train and advise the Army and Police of that Asian country, occupied by NATO since 2001. Major Craig Butl confirmed to journalists that a first batch of 100 troops left yesterday, another 350 will leave for Afghanistan this week and the rest will do it in the next ...

  • Pulling Back the Burka A Glimpse of Afghan Life Through Poetry

    Journalist and poet Eliza Griswold set out to document Afghan life through the prism of oral folk poems shared mostly among Pashtun women. Seamus Murphy, the London-based photographer and filmmaker who worked with Griswold on the landay project, has been covering events in Afghanistan for 20 years. He narrates a slideshow of some of his favorite ...

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