Nigeria, Algeria agree to build Sahara gas link The Guardian (Adds background) By Randy Fabi ABUJA, July 3 (Reuters) - Nigeria, Algeria and Niger on Friday signed an agreement to build a multi-billion dollar gas pipeline across the Sahara that could send up to... (photo: AP / Sergei Chuzavkov) |
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US Marines to 'drink lots of tea' Asia Times By Ali Gharib WASHINGTON - After months of planning and putting pieces in order, aspects of the new United States strategy in Afghanistan are beginning to be concretely implemented - including a surge... (photo: AP / Rafiq Maqbool) |
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Total, CNPC Consider Venezuela Oil Block Bids Wall Street Journal By SIMON HALL BEIJING -- France's Total SA and state oil giant China National Petroleum Corp. now plan to bid for two oil large blocks being auctioned in Venezuela,... (photo: ap / Greg Baker) |
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US Marines push deeper into southern Afghan towns Philadelphia Daily News JASON STRAZIUSO and FISNIK ABRASHI The Associated Press NAWA, Afghanistan - U.S. Marines moved into villages in Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan on Friday,... (photo: Marines / CPL TREVOR GIFT, USMC) |
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Afghan activist calls U.S. the enemy as first American marine is killed The Examiner Comment RSS Email Print Malalai Joya, famous Afghan women’s rights activist, called the U.S. an “enemy” and U.S. policy a “war crime”.... (photo: French Army / Maj. Patrick Simo) |
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Marines suffer casualties in new Afghan campaign The Press Democrat The offensive will test the Obama administration's new strategy of holding territory and letting the Afghan government sink roots in Helmand province. The insurgency has... (photo: AP / David Guttenfelder) |
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Troops push deep into Afghanistan Philadelphia Daily News By Rajiv Chandrasekaran Washington Post CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan - Columns of U.S. Marines in eight-wheeled armored vehicles pushed deep into southern Afghanistan... (photo: U.S. Marine Corps / Lance Cpl. Grant T. Walker. ) |
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U.S. targeting the Taliban The Miami Herald KABUL, Afghanistan -- The massive Marine assault launched Thursday in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province is intended to recapture an area that's been under Taliban... (photo: Public Domain / Wvosborne) |
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