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India, 118th in the Fifa world rankings, beat Afghanistan 2-0 in one of the early matches of the AFC Challenge Cup in Chittagong on Saturday. Fifa President Sepp Blatter inaugurated the tournament in the capital Dhaka, one of two venues for the 16-team competition.
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Doctors without Borders, known for its intrepid presence in the world’s worst trouble spots, has pulled out of Afghanistan. This is a blow to the Afghans, whose needs in this area are enormous. But more fundamentally, the decision was made for the wrong reasons, on a premise about humanitarian aid that no longer holds up to political reality, writes Cheryl Benard.
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The reports clearly demonstrate that Afghanistan is not the open-and-shut “success story” that conservatives often describe. Just as important, they show that the CIA was correct when it predicted earlier this year that “Iraq may prove to be an even more effective training ground for Islamic extremists than Afghanistan was in Al Qaeda’s early days, because it is serving as a real-world laboratory for urban combat.”
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