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There are two sides to every story but your publication of Jack Hughes's article on Dubai ("Bling City is dead, but Dubai's desert dream survives", Focus, last week) was, like the piece itself, misguided. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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Please activate cookies in order to turn autoplay off Indonesian police arrested a man accused of smuggling 10 rare kangaroos by boat from New Guinea, a police spokesman said yesterday. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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People take part in a flash mob gathering called the Ultimatum Climate call in Paris, December 5, 2009, two days before the opening of the United Nations Climate Change Conference to be held in Copenhagen. View Photo »
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Yesterday, the numbers released by the Labor Department reflected a continuing positive trend of diminishing job loss ... But for those who were laid off last month and the millions of Americans who have lost their jobs in this recession, a good trend isn’t good enough. Trends don’t buy the groceries.
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Politicians are rarely accused of focusing too much on the long term. Tomorrow's headlines are always in view. In that context there is already something to celebrate from this week's global summit in Copenhagen. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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Russian policemen stand guard in front of the Lame Horse restaurant in Perm. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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Dancers perform for an all-male clientele in one of the clubs that reopened as security improved in Baghdad. Photograph: Hadi Mizban/AP The raids came just before midnight a week ago. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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Activists from the Klima-Allianz climate protection group wear masks of U.S. President Barack Obama (2nd L), German Chancellor Angela Merkel (2nd R), Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) and Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade as they stage a protest in fron... View Photo »
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I think this is a dreadful mistake on President's Obama's part ... It makes me sad. I am for him. I worked for him, and I still think he is a brilliant man. But it looks to me like Vietnam all over again.
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Carol Ann Duffy, poet laureate: Her 12 Days of Christmas poem moves from Afghanistan to the Copenhagen summit. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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A British couple kidnapped by Somali pirates six weeks ago were on the verge of being freed for a £100,000 ransom when the government blocked the deal, the Observer can reveal. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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It's important to recall why America and our allies were compelled to fight a war in Afghanistan in the first place ... We did not ask for this fight.
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It is that stable Afghanistan that I think gives an opportunity for Pakistan to change its behaviour, because its behaviour is focussed on what kind of Afghanistan is this going to be? Is it going to be a Taliban-led Afghanistan? Is it going to be a stable Afghanistan that I can depend on? And those ans...
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We will pursue a military strategy that will break the Taliban's momentum and increase Afghanistan's capacity over the next 18 months.
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My belief is also that we cannot take the chance to get this wrong. The people who are living in Afghanistan from the Al Qaeda -- the same group that killed 3,000 Americans (during 9/11 attacks) -- they're still planning, they're still training they're still financing those kinds of potential attacks in...
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Secretary Clinton, if you have time, have we consulted with the Indians in terms of their relationship with Pakistan in reducing the concern that the Pakistanis have relative to India?
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There's the Taliban who are actually in Pakistan and threatening Pakistan -- this TTP (Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan) group. There's the Taliban who are also in Pakistan and threaten -- and this comes from mostly the Haqqani network -- that the focus on Afghanistan
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We’ve made progress in confronting climate change
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These various Taliban groups are associating with the Al Qaeda in ways that just had not happened before
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It will be our continuing effort... to make the case that the Pakistanis have to do more against all of the insurgent terrorist groups that are threatening them, that are threatening us in Afghanistan and the Afghan people and are threatening other neighbours in the region
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The TTP (Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan) and the Afghan Taliban were a threat to our Pakistani partners or even a trans-national threat in terms of extremism
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We hear the wishes of the United States, but we will not decide in the coming days. We will decide only after the Afghanistan conference
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The Vietnam parallel is so obvious — (Obama's) talking about training and advising these people. Just like what we did with the ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam).
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The extra U.S. forces for Afghanistan will increase our ability to train competent Afghan security forces and to partner with them so that more Afghans can get into the fight. And they will help create the conditions for the United States to transfer responsibility to the Afghans.
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Although strong statements are being issued against Al-Qa'ida and the Taliban, the US President has not yet decided what objectives his country has in the region. No American, Afghan, or Pakistani knows whether the US objective in Afghanistan is reconstruction, crushing insurgency, or collection of secr...
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The extra U.S. forces for Afghanistan will increase our ability to train competent Afghan security forces and to partner with them so that more Afghans can get into the fight. And they will help create the conditions for the United States to transfer responsibility to the Afghans.
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Some analysts believethat regardless of the reservations over the logic of the date of withdrawal asannounced by President Obama, the objective of the move is to draw people's attentionin the Karzai regime to eliminate rampant corruption in their government and end drug trafficking, which is the source ...
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It's time to refocus our attention on the war we have to win in Afghanistan
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The United States has announced its new Afghan policy. Humiliated Obama lashed out at Pakistan to his heart's content. At the same time, he announced that30,000 more soldiers would send to Afghanistan, making them a scapegoat.
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If I did not think that the security of the United States and the safety of the American people were at stake in Afghanistan ... I would gladly order every single one of our troops home tomorrow.
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If the three-point strategy of President Obama isseen in the perspective of ground realities in Afghanistan, no similar thing is visible in it that can be termed a cause of big change in Afghanistan. At the same time, his strategy cannot be called in line with his slogan of change,which he had raised du...
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We also believe that a strong, stable, democratic Pakistan must be a key partner for the United States, and an ally in the fight against violent extremism
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The key here, however, is strengthening the government in Pakistan and refocusing on what they're going to do in the course of next year ... keep the heat on the various entities in Pakistan --Lashkar-e-Taiba; the Haqqani network; al-Qaeda; the Quetta Shura -- which has a major impact on what happens in...
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The extremists we are fighting in Afghanistan and Pakistan have attacked us and our allies before
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I hate to use this term, but in a sense the (region is) spiritual centre, the symbolic centre of al-Qaeda, it strengthens their ability to do things in Somalia, Yemen, Germany, Great Britain, America, elsewhere
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The unity of support that the people of Pakistan are showing for this effort is profoundly significant. But, as we have said, it is not enough
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