WASHINGTON: Global warming is leading to such severe storms, droughts and heat waves that nations should prepare for an unprecedented onslaught of deadly and costly weather disasters, an international panel of climate scientists said in a new report issued Wednesday. The greatest threat from extreme...
As the USA simmers through its hottest March on record — with more than 6,000 record high temperatures already set this month — a new study released Sunday shows that average global temperatures could climb 2.5 to 5.4 degrees by 2050 if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated.The study findings a...
The country aims to supply 35% of its total energy from renewables by 2020 and 100% by 2050 The Danish government has stepped up its green energy and carbon reduction targets for 2020, hailing the plan as the "broadest, greenest, and most long-term energy agreement" it has ever reached.Danish minist...
MERU, Kenya: For the first 24 years of her marriage, Philista Cianjoka’s only source of income was attending to births and performing female genital cutting on adolescent girls.But recently Cianjoka stopped these practices and began working full-time in agriculture.Her shift of occupation was prompt...
Despite optimism relations were rebounding, the attacks bore the signature of a Pakistan-based group, a reminder, as the US plans to exit Afghanistan that Pakistan is at best a fickle partner. Washington - US officials voiced cautious optimism recently that relations with Pakistan, a critical but d...
BRUSSELS: Britain was the only country to publicly pledge an actual amount of cash to pay for Afghanistan security after foreign combat troops withdraw in 2014, at a NATO meeting on Wednesday where differences over funding the country's future persisted. The United States hopes to be able to annou...
International summit split over cost-cutting exit strategy that would see security forces radically depleted as soon as West leaves Brussels: The blueprint for the West's exit strategy for the long war in Afghanistan is being set out in a critical meeting, with military officials and diplomats batt...
‘No matter how high the mountain, there is a road to the top' (Afghan proverb) In Afghanistan, bridges are important. They link families separated by Afghanistan's often mountainous terrain, enable farmers to bring crops to market, and allow everyone - from traders to teachers - to move about more...
While the U.S. is scrambling to react to a series of damaging setbacks, the Taliban has not taken full advantage, apparently because it is divided over its strategy. Kabul, Afghanistan: Lately, it has seemed that the Taliban can just sit back and wait for the next American mistake. Over the last ...
WASHINGTON: The United States military has decided that no service members will face disciplinary charges for their involvement in a NATO airstrike in November that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, an accident that plunged relations between the two countries to new depths and has greatly complicated th...
WASHINGTON :As Afghanistan seizes more of the political spotlight, the Republican presidential candidates are quick to criticize President Barack Obama's handling of the war but struggle to explain how they would change the strategy they would inherit. GOP front-runner Mitt Romney says Obama has e...
I must admit, I didn't pay much attention to the plants of Afghanistan during the short trip I made there in 2010. I was part of a small BBC team, following a Scottish expedition to previously unclimbed peaks in the Wakhan valley. I do remember a field of bright blue flowers, soon after we cross...
There isn’t too much that binds together Ama Gullah, a 45-year-old grandmother from the city of Kandahar, and Dr. Becky Whetstone, a marriage counselor and therapist in Little Rock, Arkansas. But they are two of the tens of thousands of mothers strewn across four continents whose sons and daughter...
He doubled down on a war that is wildly unpopular with Americans. On the other hand, Bin Laden is dead and Mitt Romney is waffling. In one of the major foreign policy speeches that Barack Obama gave in 2008, he declared that "the central front in the war on terror is not Iraq, and it never was. Tha...
It’s time for the United States to think of new ways to combat terrorism in Southwest Asia. Marc Thiessen wrote a column in the Washington Post last week warning of "five disasters" waiting to happen if the Obama administration accelerates the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. Topping his...
PASHTUN KOT: One hillside in Pashtun Kot District in the northern Afghan province of Faryab stands out. Dotted with graves, it is the final resting place for the victims of underdevelopment: Villagers travel from far-off mountains by donkey to bury their dead here - people whose demise was hastened ...
It is among the more intriguing mysteries swirling around the killings of civilian villagers in southern Afghanistan: How could the Army staff sergeant charged with 17 counts of murder have left his combat outpost, located in a dangerous region, not once but twice in the middle of the night to commi...
On April 1, Michael Koch begins his new job as Germany's special envoy for Afghanistan. Among Germany's top diplomats there are few as capable for handling this difficult task. Unlike his predecessor, Michael Steiner, who was known for getting loud if necessary, Koch is a man of quiet words. Born ...
Senior U.S. military commanders met with their Pakistani counterparts on Wednesday, the first such contacts since relations were ruptured when U.S. helicopters accidentally killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in an airstrike in November. Gen. James Mattis, who as commander of the U.S. Central Command is ...
Afghan security forces and police killed three NATO soldiers in two separate incidents Monday. Two of the soldiers killed were British and one was American. The latest "green on blue" attacks came as the top commander of the U.S.-led mission in Afghanistan wrapped up a visit to Washington during whi...
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