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Close to 14 million Ethiopians - 20% of the country's total population - now have difficulty finding enough to eat, including, according to UNICEF, 62,000 children under five in the worst-affected areas who received treatment for severe acute malnutrition during the first half of 2009. And that number is...
All this is occurring as the U.S. officially withdraws its military forces from the big cities, a preamble for its eventual departure from the country in 2011. U.S. officials have warned that insurgents would try to sneak in parting shots. And the shots have been explosively loud. Early Monday morning...
Reports from Pakistan say the leadership council of the TTP, the umbrella organization of insurgent groups united under Mehshud, has already begun consultations on who should succeed him as the emir, or prince. It's unlikely the council will meet under one roof, for fear of being obliterated, like Mehsud...
Abdullah's rallies are unusual in a country racked by insurgent violence. While Karzai campaigns from the lofty, army-secured heights of head of state and another contender, former Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani (who polled 3% in May), dominates television debates, Abdullah is taking his platform straight to the streets...
July was the deadliest month for U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan since they arrived there at the end of 2001, with 70 foreign troops - including 42 Americans - killed. Six more U.S. soldiers were killed on the first two days of August. The casualty toll is expected to remain high...