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Facing up to a bad monsoon
This year, the rains were exceptionally bad in June and the monsoon has been unable to recover from such a big setback. Now with half the rainy season over, the chances are that the monsoon will end in a drought. The country as a whole received ...

Clearing the final hurdle
The suspense over the eligible human embryonic stem cell lines for federal funding has been finally removed after the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced the rules recently. The draft guidelines issued earlier by the NIH, after ...

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Questions of real national security
By Pushpa M. Bhargava

Policies with regard to agriculture, education and health need to change in order to ensure a meaningful and wide-ranging security for this country.

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U.S. seeks a fresh start in Angola

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Raring to go ahead on their own
By Rod Nordland

An increasingly confident Iraqi army takes the lead in security operations as it moves towards independence from its U.S. overseers.

U.S. military targets Afghan drug chieftains
By James Risen

But NATO allies have raised questions about the strategy of killing individuals who are not traditional military targets.

Corrections and clarifications
The heading of a report was “Intel officials: Taliban leader Mehsud dead” (August 7, 2009). “Intel” is an informal military word meaning “military intelligence; information”. It is of 1980s origin. The ...

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