A U.S. watchdog agency said Tuesday that Afghan officials were resisting U.S. efforts to help track billions of dollars being flown out of Kabul airport every year, some likely linked to crime and drugs. Afghanistan is hemorrhaging to death and western cash infusions are failing.
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned Thursday about a new effort by oppressive governments to “re-Sovietize” much of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, taking particular aim at Russia for its crackdown on democracy and human rights groups just hours ahead of critical talks with that country’s foreign minister.
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As the East Coast tries to get back on its feet after the damage from superstorm Sandy, New Jersey has announced that residents can vote by email in the upcoming presidential election.
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In a speech on “Energy Diplomacy” at Georgetown University, Clinton said efforts to pressure Tehran over its nuclear programs constituted “perhaps the most important energy diplomacy we have conducted in the Obama administration.”
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Stockmarkets in Spain and Italy plunged more than 2pc, dragged down by bank shares, after Ms Merkel said the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) would only be used to bail-out future bank crises, not the current one.
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Among the more than two dozen American personnel evacuated from the city after the assault on the American mission and a nearby annex were about a dozen C.I.A. operatives and contractors, who played a crucial role in conducting surveillance and collecting information on an array of armed militant groups in and around the city.
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The United States and Israel jointly developed a sophisticated computer virus nicknamed Flame that collected critical intelligence in preparation for cyber-sabotage attacks aimed at slowing Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon, according to Western officials with knowledge of the effort.
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It is back to square one in Greece’s bid to form a new government after an inconclusive election that saw the two main parties punished over austerity.
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According to interim premier Abdel Rahman al-Kib, things are going just great in new Libya . The problem is that most clan militia’s are armed to the teeth and don’t care what the PM says.
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With the Alliance’s war on opium in Afghanistan suffering setbacks, the director of Russia’s Drug Control Service has said the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and NATO could cooperate in battling drug trafficking in the Central Asian hotspot.
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