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Washington (AFP) Sept 21, 2017 - US efforts to train Afghanistan's security forces are being hampered by slapdash instruction, shoddy oversight and failures in governance, a watchdog warned Thursday as America sends thousands more troops to the war-torn nation.
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Washington (AFP) Sept 7, 2024 - The United States on Friday warned of growing risks for businesses operating in Hong Kong, saying that routine activities could run afoul of the financial hub's new national security regulations.
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Charlotte, North Carolina (AFP) Sept 3, 2012 - A simple question that distils much of the debate swirling in America's Great Recession election appears to have Democrats tied in knots.
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Washington (AFP) Sept 13, 2011 - Americans will not be cowed and will continue to work in Afghanistan, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday after Taliban gunmen attacked the US embassy in Kabul.
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San Francisco (AFP) Sept 14, 2011 - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Wednesday warned the United States would retaliate against insurgents based in Pakistan blamed for staging a dramatic attack in the Afghan capital.
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Washington (AFP) Sept 12, 2019 - An avid hunter and ex-soldier who knows how to handle a weapon, Vic Bencomo has a new preoccupation: tightening gun regulation in the United States, where firearms take tens of thousands of lives a year.
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United Nations, United States (AFP) Sept 23, 2021 - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday urged all countries to raise their climate ambitions as the UN Security Council took up the environmental crisis, warning that it is aggravating conflicts.
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Washington (AFP) Sept 29, 2014 - The United States on Monday asked Hong Kong's leaders to show restraint after riot police fired tear gas on mass democracy protests, and said it had told Beijing it backs universal suffrage in the territory.
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Washington (AFP) Sept 27, 2011 - The United States on Tuesday urged China to respect the rights of Tibetans and address their grievances after two monks set themselves on fire, triggering a security clampdown.
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Manila (AFP) Sept 30, 2009 - The US military will send troops and equipment to the Philippines to help victims of massive flooding that has affected more than two million people, the American ambassador here said on Wednesday.
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Vilnius (AFP) Sept 5, 2020 - Several hundred US troops started arriving in NATO member Lithuania on Saturday for military exercises near the border with Belarus, where tensions are mounting over its disputed presidential election.
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Washington (AFP) Sept 7, 2012 - The planned withdrawal of more than 30,000 US surge troops from Afghanistan will be completed ahead of an end-of-month target date, officials said Friday.
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Clovis, United States (AFP) Sept 10, 2020 - Entire communities have been razed by wildfires raging in the western United States, with officials warning of potential mass deaths under apocalyptic orange skies.
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Washington (AFP) Sept 08, 2014 - The US military will send a field hospital to Liberia for medical staff fighting the Ebola virus, the Pentagon said Monday, as part of an expanded effort to stem the epidemic.
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Washington (AFP) Sept 1, 2015 - The US will press fellow G20 economies this week to act to boost world growth, and urge China to better communicate its policies, a senior Treasury official said Tuesday.
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Washington (AFP) Sept 23, 2021 - President Joe Biden's administration will announce a new rule Thursday drastically cutting the use of a group of powerful greenhouse gases commonly found in refrigerators and air conditioners, officials said.
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