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Blog: Kurram, Orakzai, Khyberpor open01 hace 1 mes | 0 comentariosAs the Pakistani military strategists who organised Afghan guerillas against the Soviets in the 1980s discovered to their delight, Kurram is the best location along the entire Pakistan-Afghanistan border to put pressure on the Afghan capital, Kabul, ...
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Blog: Zabul, Toba Kakarpor open01 hace 1 mes | 0 comentarios
Afghanistan's Zabul province lies to the north of Kandahar, along the Toba Kakar mountain range that separates it from the Pakistani districts of Killa Saifullah and Killa Abdullah. The mountains are remote, and have been largely quiet except for a ...
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Blog: Dow Jones breaks through 10,000por open10 hace 1 mes | 0 comentarios
Stocks continued to fall. They hit a 12-year low early in March before staging their comeback. Analysts said the latest rise in the Dow could encourage more investors into the market. "Dow 10,000 may be largely psychological, but with tremendous ...
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Blog: Arctic to be 'ice-free in summer'por open11 hace 1 mes | 0 comentarios
The Arctic Ocean could be largely ice-free and open to shipping during the summer in as little as ten years' time, a top polar specialist has said. "It's like man is taking the lid off the northern part of the planet," said Professor Peter Wadhams, ...
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Blog: Second termspor open11 hace 1 mes | 0 comentarios
In Venezuela, Argentina and other Latin American countries, incumbent presidents have sought to change the national constitutions to give them the possibility to serve a second consecutive term in office. Presidents have argued that, in the modern ...
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Blog: Why Honduran splits became crisispor open08 hace 1 mes | 0 comentarios
Zelaya also announced Honduras would join Alba, the Venezuelan-inspired trade and finance agreement intended as an alternative to the free trade agreements backed by the United States. At the same time, he began to adopt a more independent line with ...
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Blog: Cost savingspor open08 hace 1 mes | 0 comentarios
"It is regrettable that [Anglo] immediately rejected our approach, without engaging with Xstrata to investigate the potential to create more value than either company could do alone," said Mick Davis, boss of the Swiss miner. But he reaffirmed his ...
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Blog: Hondurans wait for crisis to unfoldpor open07 hace 1 mes | 0 comentarios
A city of empty streets, mainly silent except for the sound of police helicopters flying overhead now and again.That is the situation in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, described to BBC Mundo by some of its residents more than a day after the ...
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Blog: Growing tensionspor open05 hace 1 mes | 0 comentarios
Activists have condemned the trials as a sham, saying they have lacked transparency and fairness. A protest by Uighurs in Urumqi erupted into violence on 5 July, leaving at least 197 people killed and another 1,700 injured. Shops were smashed and ...
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Blog: El Salvadorpor open05 hace 1 mes | 0 comentarios
In El Salvador, the picture is not quite so bleak. The president of the Chamber of Commerce, Jorge Daboub, says that "so far, trade has been relatively normal". But he warns that "there's always a risk, especially with riots in the capital ...
