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An Afghan man and his mother choked the man's wife to death, when the child she gave birth to was a third girl. The man had threatened to kill her unless the baby was a boy.
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Outrage over the U.S. Marines video of soldiers desecrating the bodies of dead Afghans has been further stirred by the controversial words of Tea Party leader Pamela Geller: "I don't care," she wrote recently.
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The U.S. Marine Corps has launched an investigation into a video surfaced on the internet which seems to show a group of Marines urinating on the bodies of three soldiers, possibly Taliban members.
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No other nation offers a remote threat to America’s global military dominance, yet the nation spends nearly as much as the rest of the world combined on defense. The U.S. is in an arms race, but against whom?
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As America works to hand over control of Afghan detention facilities to the Afghan authorities, a new report by an Afghan investigative commission says inmates at a Bagram prison claim they have been tortured.
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Sydney -
President Obama has flagged a major revamp of the U.S. military. This is the cash cow of all cash cows, sacred in a sense or several as well. The military is also one of the nation’s biggest contract sources, and a major cashflow area.
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Police officers in Afghanistan arrested two British contractors after a cache of weapons were found in their vehicle. The group of men work for Garda World
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New figures for the Mexican drug wars indicate that about 10,000 people a year are dying in the endless war between the drug cartels, or 50,000 since 2006. That figure includes 1,000 children. The War on Drugs is as usual failing abysmally on all fronts.
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Kabul -
President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai, has ordered a probe into allegations that a 15-year-old-girl was kept in the basement of her in-laws' house and tortured for six months because she refused to join her mother-in-law's business, prostitution.
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Insurgents in Afghanistan have been recruiting children as suicide bombers. The children are often kidnapped at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border area and taken to training camps. The children are told they will go to heaven if they kill Americans.
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