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The revised strategy for Afghanistan
that President Obama will announce Tuesday is expected to focus new
resources on training Afghan security forces and shoring up the central
government, an approach certain to revive a debate about the
possibilities and the limits of nation-building.
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Washington Post World Desk The dispute over the air station on Okinawa has become a highly publicized symbol of Japan's new forcefulness in negotiations with its most important ally.
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TOKYO -- Japan's new government, already bickering with the United States about the location of a Marine air station on Okinawa, appears intent on revealing evidence of a decades-old secret pact between Tokyo and Washington that allowed U.S. ships and aircraft to carry nuclear weapons on stopover...
The ultimate crop rotation: Wealthy nations outsource crops to Ethiopia's farmlands - washingtonpost
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BAKO, ETHIOPIA -- In recent months, the Ethiopian government began marketing abroad one of the hottest commodities in an increasingly crowded and hungry world: farmland.
Washington Post World Desk On this day in 1977, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to visit Israel. Read more: http://bit.ly/CAZAt
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TARUNA JAYA, INDONESIA -- Across a patch of pineapples shrouded in smoke, Idris Hadrianyani battled a menace that has left his family sleepless and sick -- and has wrought as much damage on the planet as has exhaust from all the cars and trucks in the United States. Against the advancing flames, ...
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Allegation, if proved true, would mark one of the most brazen
examples of corruption yet disclosed in Afghanistan.
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KABUL -- The Afghan minister of mines accepted a roughly $30 million bribe to award the country's largest development project to a Chinese mining firm, according to a U.S. official who is familiar with military intelligence reports.
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SARAROGHA, Pakistan-- A toy car booby-trapped with explosives, Arabic-language chemistry and electronics texts and hand-written case notes from a Taliban courtroom were among the debris left behind by fleeing Islamic militants in this remote village in the conflicted tribal region of South Waziri...
Washington Post World Desk Your Take: What should Obama communicate to the Chinese people? http://bit.ly/C91px
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The portrait of the alleged Fort Hood shooter offered by Aulaqi
provides some hints as to Hasan's mind-set and motivations in the
months leading up to the Nov. 5 rampage, in which 13 were killed.
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SANAA, YEMEN -- In his first interview with a journalist since the Fort Hood rampage, Yemeni American cleric Anwar al-Aulaqi said that he neither ordered nor pressured Maj. Nidal M. Hasan to harm Americans, but that he considered himself a confidant of the Army psychiatrist who was given a glimp...
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Early next year, some 75 orangutans will relocate from a wildlife sanctuary to a remote forest in Central Kalimantan, an Indonesian province on the island of Borneo. After years of living with assistance from humans, can they survive?
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In 1982, a Pakistani military C-130 left the western Chinese city of Urumqi with a highly unusual cargo: enough weapons-grade uranium for two atomic bombs, according to accounts written by the father of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program, Abdul Qadeer Khan, and provided to The Washington Post.
Washington Post World Desk Explore an interactive timeline of U.S.-China relations, from 1972 to the present: http://bit.ly/23WXvJ
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When President Obama arrives in Shanghai and Beijing next week, he will face a prickly question that has vexed presidents since Richard M. Nixon first visited Mao Zedong in 1972: How exactly does the United States define its relationship with China?
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One day in late summer 2008, FBI and Secret Service agents flew to Chicago to inform Barack Obama's campaign team that its computer system had been hacked. "You've got a problem. Somebody's trying ...
Washington Post World Desk By 1989, the Berlin Wall stretched nearly 100 miles around West Berlin, including 30 miles through the city itself. Nearly 12 feet high in places, the barrier featured hundreds of watch towers and miles of trenches, barbed wire and signal fences.
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Europe marks 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the opening of the barrier between East and West Germany.
