Search results for ‘Kabul’
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai in tears on TV
His country’s in bad shape – and he’s not much better. The Afghan president Hamid Karzai bursts into tears during a nationally televised speech which was meant to focus on national literacy day.
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Obama: White House at war
A well-timed leak of the juiciest bits to the Washington Post and the New York Times guaranteed Bob Woodward’s book a slot on the bestseller lists. Job Rabkin looks at the revelations in detail.
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Nato attack launched on Pakistan border
NATO helicopters based in Afghanistan launch an attack against insurgents inside Pakistani territory – the second incursion within four days, writes Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller.
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Afghanistan: search for kidnapped aid worker
The search continues for a British aid worker and her three Afghan colleagues, kidnapped by armed men in Afghanistan. John Sparks learns aid agencies are finding the country more and more dangerous.
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Still struggling to meet the Afghanistan challenge
Nearly a decade after NATO soldiers arrived in Afghanistan to oust the Taliban, Alex Thomson analyses how the security challenge remains tough.
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Afghan election: voters battle Taliban bomb threats
As Afghans brave the ballot boxes for the election amid Taliban rocket strikes, Channel 4 News’s Nick Paton Walsh says expectations are low in the wake of last year’s vote-rigging debacle.
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Obama warns of ‘profound damage’ from Koran row
President Obama warns burning the Koran would endanger troops as Sarah Smith gauges reaction from Muslims while a pastor flies to New York to confront the backer of the planned Islamic centre.
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Clinton: 9/11 Koran burning ‘disgraceful’
A radical pastor is set to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks despite condemnation. Sarah Smith says the US government is “terribly worried” about the backlash.
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No.10 urged to review Cameron Afghan security
As senior military chiefs call for security review after the Taliban attempted to bring down David Cameron’s helicopter, a former commander tells Channel 4 News the key is to be “unpredictable”.
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Afghan women's rights: the wedding that defies convention
I’ve been to a few Afghan wedding celebrations. As you’d expect, they’re full of joy, music and dancing; and way too much food
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Taliban calls for joint civilian death inquiry
The Taliban calls on Nato and UN to join an inquiry assessing civilian deaths in Afghanistan, as sources in Kabul tell Channel 4 News the proposal could be a way of opening dialogue with insurgents.
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Taliban: greatest guerrilla insurgency?
As the war in Afghanistan continues nine years on, author James Fergusson analyses the success of the Taliban and asks how the insurgency has managed to endure the world’s mightiest armies.
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Remote Pakistan: devastation beyond the relief workers' reach
In one of the many depressing tours I’ve had of half-ruined, waterlogged villages in northwest Pakistan, I found a man washing his car.
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Assessing the devastation of the Pakistan floods
Channel 4 News Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller meets the survivors who have “lost everything” in Pakistan’s devastating floods.
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Disease and despair on the ground in Pakistan
Jonathan Miller blogs from a refugee camp in flood-hit Pakistan where medical facilities, schools and homes have all been swept away by the country’s floods.