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Afghanistan | Reuters – Business & Financial News …
KABUL - Former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah received a boost in the race for the Afghan presidency on Sunday when one of the pre-election favorites dropped out and backed his team ahead of next month's expected run-off.
AAB BAREEK/KABUL Afghanistan - For all the billions of dollars in foreign aid that have poured into Afghanistan over the past 12 years, Sajeda, her head-to-toe burqa covered in dust, sobs that the world has forgotten the poorest of the poor in the largely untroubled north of the country.
09 May 2014
AAB BAREEK/KABUL, Afghanistan - For all the billions of dollars in foreign aid that have poured into Afghanistan over the past 12 years, Sajeda, her head-to-toe burqa covered in dust, sobs that the world has forgotten the poorest of the poor in the largely untroubled north of the country.
WASHINGTON - A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers on Thursday introduced a bill to allow more time for the thousands of Afghans who worked for the American military and government as interpreters and in other high-risk jobs to immigrate to the United States.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Twelve militants were killed in fighting between factions of the Pakistani Taliban near the Afghan border on Tuesday, Taliban and security officials said, the first such clash since the two feuding groups agreed to abide by a ceasefire two weeks ago.
AAB BAREEK, Afghanistan - Afghan police fired gunshots into the air on Tuesday to disperse villagers who fought police and aid workers distributing emergency supplies near the remote site of a deadly landslide, witnesses said.
AAB BAREEK, Afghanistan - Afghan police fired gunshots into the air on Tuesday to disperse villagers who fought police and aid workers distributing emergency supplies near the remote site of a deadly landslide, witnesses said.
AAB BAREEK, Afghanistan - Grief-stricken and desititute Afghan villagers vented anger with their government as they scrambled for emergency aid, three days after deadly landslides engulfed their homes. |Video
AAB BAREEK, Afghanistan - Six-year-old Abdul Maqsood stood outside his neighbor's simple mud-brick home, staring aghast at the damage caused by a landslide which had slammed into his village in remote northeast Afghanistan. Then the rumbling started.
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Afghanistan bravery merits Medal of Honor for Kyle White
Seven years ago, Army Spc. Kyle J. White was on a narrow path in the rugged mountains of Afghanistan when he and his U.S. military comrades walked into an ambush.
As one fellow soldier went down, White, then 20, rushed over to help, using his body to shield the wounded man from enemy fire.
On Tuesday, White received the Medal of Honor for distinguishing himself by "acts of gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty" on Nov. 9, 2007.
"Then Kyle saw another man down, Marine Sgt. Phillip Bocks, in the open, 30 feet behind him but too injured to reach cover," President Obama said at a White House ceremony. "Kyle remembers thinking, it's a just a matter of time before I'm dead. If that's going to happen, I might as well help someone while I can."
"With bullets impacting all around him, Kyle ran to Bocks and began to pull the injured Marine to cover," the president explained. "But worried that he'd exposed Bocks to more gunfire, Kyle retreated. The enemy rounds followed him. He ran out again, pulling Bocks a little farther. And once more, he retreated to distract the enemy fire.
"Once more he went out, over and over, thinking to himself, I'm not going to make it. Kyle could feel the pressure of the rounds going by him. But somehow, miraculously, they never hit him, not once. One of his teammates said it was as if Kyle was moving faster than a speeding bullet."
With "enemy rounds ricocheting around his feet and snapping past his head," White dragged Bocks out of the line of fire, according to an Army account.
When the first soldier sustained another wound, White pulled off his belt and applied it as a tourniquet. He then exposed himself to enemy fire "yet again" in order to retrieve a radio and call in airstrikes on the enemy.
Even after suffering a concussion and having been struck in the face by shrapnel, White oversaw the evacuation of the wounded. "Only after all wounded were off the trail did White allow himself to be evacuated," according to the Army.
"Tragically, there on that cliff, Sgt. Bocks succumbed to his wounds," Obama said. "But in his final moments, this American Marine surely found some solace in Kyle White, the American soldier who until the very end was there by his side."
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