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Australian Cook Book ask for Freshly Ground Black People

On April 18, 2010, in Life/Culture, by admin

An Australian publisher has had to pulp and reprint a cook-book after one recipe listed “salt and freshly ground black people” instead of black pepper.

Penguin Group Australia had to reprint 7,000 copies of Pasta Bible last week, the Sydney Morning Herald has reported.

The reprint cost A$20,000 ($18,000; £12,000), but stock in bookshops will not be recalled as it is “extremely hard” to do so, Penguin said.

The recipe was for spelt tagliatelle with sardines and prosciutto.

“We’re mortified that this has become an issue of any kind, and why anyone would be offended, we don’t know,” head of publishing Bob Sessions is quoted as saying by the Sydney newspaper.

Penguin said almost every one of the more than 150 recipes in the book listed salt and freshly ground black pepper, but a misprint occurred on just one page.

“When it comes to the proofreader, of course they should have picked it up, but proofreading a cook-book is an extremely difficult task. I find that quite forgivable,” Mr Sessions said.

If anyone complains about the “silly mistake”, they will be given the new version, Penguin said.

Thanks BBC.

Elderly Lady Left in Car for 4 Hours only Finally to be Rescued by Police

On April 14, 2010, in Life/Culture, by admin

An elderly lady was accidentally abandoned in the back of a parked car when her relatives went on a day trip to France, police have revealed.

Port of Dover Police received a call from two people on board a ferry as it left Dover.

The pair left their car in a multi-storey car park ahead of the trip, forgetting their mother was inside.

Details of the incident, which happened in March, have just come to light in the force’s monthly report.

The lady was cared for by officers until the pair returned from their excursion four hours later.

Thanks BBC.

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Madonna and Son, David Return to Malawi

On April 7, 2010, in Celebrity, by admin

Pop singer Madonna has taken her adopted son David to visit his former orphanage in central Malawi.

Chants of “welcome home, David!” and “we love you, David!” could be heard from inside the Home Of Hope as the four-year-old and his mother arrived.

Journalists were barred from the reunion, which took place during Madonna’s week-long stay in Malawi.

But the head of the orphanage said Madonna did not want to break David’s “emotional attachment” to the home.

“David spent most of his first days on earth here,” Lucy Chipeta told the BBC. “We are delighted to have him back.”

“We have preserved his room including his crib,” she added.

As Madonna engaged in discussions with the orphanage’s directors, David and his older sister Lourdes played with the young residents.

However, the four-year-old’s biological father, Yohane Banda, was nowhere to be seen.

Chipeta refused to comment on why he had not attended.

Madonna, in Malawi since Monday, is scheduled to leave the southern African country on Friday.

The pop star, 51, funds six orphanages through her Raising Malawi charity and is setting up a school for girls on the outskirts of the country’s capital, Lilongwe.

Thanks BBC.

Tagged with: bbc • david • home of hope • lilongwe • Lourdes • Madonna • Malawi • raising malawi

Two German Women Try to Smuggle a Corpse onto Flight

On April 6, 2010, in Life/Culture, by admin

Police have arrested two women at an British airport after they reportedly tried to smuggle a corpse onto a flight.

Police said Tuesday the women were detained at Liverpool’s John Lennon airport “on suspicion of failing to give notification of death” of a 91-year-old man.

The BBC and other British media reported that the women placed the man, a relative of theirs, into a wheelchair and covered his face with sunglasses in a bid to get him aboard a flight to Berlin.

The women, aged 41 and 66, were detained Saturday and have been released on bail. They have not been charged and police say inquiries are continuing.

Thanks My Way.

Tagged with: bbc • Berlin • British • Corpse • john lennon • liverpool • London • Police

Hillary Clinton Offers Broader Support on Mexico’s Drug Wars

On March 24, 2010, in Political, by admin

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has pledged increased support for Mexico in the fight against drug gangs.

In Mexico as part of a high-level US delegation, she said more would be done to cut US demand for drugs and the flow of profits and guns into Mexico.

The gangs “are fighting against both of our governments”, she said, adding that a broader effort would aim to tackle social problems fuelling the trade.

Ten days ago, three people connected to the US consulate were killed in Mexico.

Discussions during the one-day visit are focusing on the Merida initiative, a $1.6bn US programme of aid aimed at fighting drug cartels.

Mrs Clinton said: “This new agenda expands our focus beyond disrupting drug trafficking organisations” to include “strengthening institutions, creating a 21st Century border, and building strong, resilient communities”.

She added: “The recent downturn in economic growth and remittances has aided the drug traffickers in their recruitment of young people.”

‘Real deal’

Defence Secretary Robert Gates, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano are part of the US delegation.

“You rarely see this kind of meeting with this kind of array of cabinet officials on both sides, so I think it indicates this is the real deal,” Ms Napolitano said.

Mrs Clinton was due to meet Mexican President Felipe Calderon at the end of her visit.

The trip comes a year after President Barack Obama promised to be a “full partner” with Mexico in fighting drugs.

A poll in Mexican newspaper Milenio on Tuesday found 59% of respondents thought the cartels were winning the drugs war, compared with just 21% who believed the government was.

On the eve of the talks, Mr Obama spoke to Mr Calderon to discuss their “mutual desire to work together for the benefit of the safety and security of citizens on both sides of our shared border”, a US statement said.

Lesley Enriquez – a US citizen working at the Juarez consulate – her American husband, Arthur Redelfs, and Jorge Alberto Salcido, the Mexican husband of another consular employee, were shot dead in two separate incidents on 13 March in the border city of Ciudad Juarez.

The motives for the killings remain unclear.

Last week, US police across the border in El Paso, Texas, rounded up members of the Barrio Azteca gang suspected of carrying out the killings.

Drug-related violence has left some 18,000 people dead in Mexico since 2006.

Most of the funds in the Merida Initiative, which is due to expire in 2011, are allocated to Mexico, with the rest going to other countries in Central America.

Thanks BBC.

Tagged with: American • bbc • ciudad juarez • Clinton • Drugs • gangs • Hillary Clinton • Mexico • milenio • officials • Robert Gates • Secretary of state Hillary Clinton • US

Volcano in near Eyjafjallajoekull, Iceland Erupts after 200 Years

On March 21, 2010, in Life/Culture, by admin

An Icelandic volcano, dormant for 200 years, has erupted, ripping a 1km-long fissure in a field of ice.

The volcano near Eyjafjallajoekull glacier began to erupt just after midnight, sending lava a hundred metres high.

Icelandic airspace has been closed, flights diverted and roads closed. The eruption was about 120km (75 miles) east of the capital, Reykjavik.

About 500 people were moved from the area, a civil protection officer said.

“We estimate that no-one is in danger in the area, but we have started an evacuation plan and between 500 and 600 people are being evacuated,” Sigurgeir Gudmundsson of the Icelandic civil protections department told the Agence France-Presse news agency.

The area is sparsely populated, but the knock-on effects from the eruption have been considerable.

A state of emergency is in force in southern Iceland and transport connections have been severely disrupted, including the main east-west road.

“Ash has already begun to fall in Fljotshlid and people in the surrounding area have reported seeing bright lights emanating from the glacier,” RUV public radio said on its website.

“It was a bit scary, but still amazing to see,” Katrin Moller Eiriksdottir, who lives in Fljotshlid, told the BBC News website.

“The ash had started falling and we couldn’t leave the car.”

Three Icelandair flights, bound for Reykjavik from the United States, were ordered to return to Boston, RUV radio reported.

Domestic flights were suspended indefinitely, but some international flights were scheduled to depart on Sunday.

There had initially been fears that the volcano could cause flooding, as it causes ice to melt on the glacier above it, but that scenario appears to have been avoided.

However, it could cause more activity nearby, scientists say.

“This was a rather small and peaceful eruption but we are concerned that it could trigger an eruption at the nearby Katla volcano, a vicious volcano that could cause both local and global damage,” said Pall Einarsson, a geophysicist at the University of Iceland’s Institute of Earth Science, Associated Press news agency reported.

As the eruption is taking place in an area that is relatively ice free, there is little chance of a destructive glacier burst like the one that washed away part of the east-west highway four years ago, after an eruption under the vast Vattnajoekull glacier.

Iceland lies on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the highly volatile boundary between the Eurasian and North American continental plates, with quakes and eruptions.

The last volcanic eruption in the Eyjafjallajoekull area occurred in 1821.

Thanks BBC.

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Hillary Clinton Pledges Support to Israel After Beef

On March 16, 2010, in Political, by admin

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has dismissed the idea that US-Israeli relations are in crisis amid a row over Jewish settlers in Arab East Jerusalem.

She said the two nations had a “close, unshakeable bond” but made clear the US wanted both Israel and the Palestinians to prove their commitment to peace.

Earlier, US envoy George Mitchell postponed a planned visit to Israel.

Heightened tensions in Jerusalem have led to violent clashes between hundreds of Palestinians and Israeli police.

Israeli police said about 60 Palestinians had been arrested and medical officials said a number of people had been injured.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged restraint from both sides, the AFP news agency reports, and reiterated that Jerusalem’s final status should be decided by negotiation.

‘Dismay and disappointment’

Israel angered Washington by announcing its plans for 1,600 new homes in East Jerusalem as US Vice-President Joe Biden visited the region last week to try to kick-start stalled peace talks.

Israel’s ambassador to the US, Michael Oren, was quoted by Israeli media on Monday as saying that ties between the US and Israel were at their lowest point since 1975.

Asked if that was the case, Mrs Clinton said: “I don’t buy that.”

She said Washington had an “absolute commitment to Israel’s security”.

But, she added, the US did not always agree with its international allies on everything, and it had expressed its “dismay and disappointment” to Israel over last week’s incident.

Last week, Mrs Clinton called the settlements announcement “insulting” to the US and, in a phone call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, demanded Israel take steps to show its commitment to peace.

The US says it is still awaiting a “formal” response from Israel to those concerns.

Mr Mitchell had been due to meet Israeli President Shimon Peres on Tuesday but the trip has been put off to an as yet undetermined time, officials said.

State department spokesman Philip Crowley said Mr Mitchell would not meet Israeli and Palestinian leaders before a Middle East Quartet meeting in Moscow on Friday but talks would be scheduled at some point.

BBC state department correspondent Kim Ghattas, in Washington, says the pressure is piling up on Israel but the question being asked is whether the US can get anything from Israel at this stage.

It is possible the Israeli prime minister cannot deliver what Washington wants without paying too heavy a price at home, our correspondent says.

Although he has apologised for the timing of the settlement announcement, Mr Netanyahu has stood by Israel’s policy, telling parliament on Monday there can be “no curbs” on Jewish building in Jerusalem.

The BBC’s Paul Wood in Jerusalem says there seems to be an impasse – if Mr Netanyahu caves in and cancels the new settlements, the stability of his government may be in doubt; if he does not, it is hard to see how the peace talks can take place.

‘Day of rage’

Tensions in East Jerusalem have risen in recent days with the settlements issue and the rededication of a synagogue in Jerusalem’s Old City, which Palestinians have condemned as provocative.

Hundreds of Palestinian protesters burned tyres and threw rocks, while police fired stun grenades and tear gas, as rioting broke out in a number of areas – including the Shu’fat refugee camp, al-Eisaweyah and the Qalandia checkpoint between Israel and the West Bank.

Israeli police said they had deployed 3,000 officers across the city.

The reopening of the twice-destroyed Hurva synagogue, in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City, which Palestinians seek as part of a future capital, triggered a wide backlash.

Hatem Abdel Qader, Jerusalem affairs spokesman for the Fatah movement of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, said: “This synagogue will be a prelude to violence and religious fanaticism and extremism.”

Militant group Hamas had declared Tuesday a “day of rage” against the move.

Thousands of people turned out in Gaza to protest against the rededication of the synagogue, not far from the al-Aqsa mosque, Islam’s third-holiest site, although demonstrations there remained relatively peaceful.

Our correspondent says the call by some Palestinian officials for people to defend the Haram al-Sharif or Temple Mount, site of the al-Aqsa mosque, comes amid rumours of plans by Jewish extremists to take control of the area.

He says that although the clashes so far are small-scale, no-one has forgotten how the last Palestinian intifada – or uprising – began over the holy sites in Jerusalem.

Thanks BBC.

Tagged with: arab • bbc • Benjamin Netanyahu • east jerusalem • general ban ki-moon • george mitchell • Hillary Clinton • Israel • Israeli • Jewish • Joe Biden • middle quartet • Palestinians • Peace • Secretary of state Hillary Clinton • shimon peres • US • Washington

Goldie Hawn in Talks to Setting up Schools in England

On March 8, 2010, in Celebrity, Life/Culture, Religion, by admin

The Tories are in talks with foreign educational groups – including one run by Hollywood actress Goldie Hawn – to set up state schools in England.

Shadow Children’s Secretary Michael Gove says he is talking to the French government and a Swedish schools chain.

And he told The Sunday Times his team had also spoken to Ms Hawn’s charity, which promotes Buddhist values.

Schools Minister Vernon Coaker questioned how the plan could be funded without “cuts to existing schools”.

The Tories want parents, charities and companies to take over failing schools or set up new ones if they win power.

‘Creationism’

Mr Gove told BBC One’s Andrew Marr show he wanted to give state schools the same “freedom” as fee-paying schools to set their own curriculums, which he claimed would boost the chances of pupils from poorer backgrounds reaching top universities.

“What we want to do, for example, is to allow organisations like a Swedish company, the International English School, the chance to come here to teach the sort of rigorous academic curriculum which too many students, particularly students in poorer parts of the country, are denied.”

He said an independent body would scrutinise anyone that wants to set up a school “to make sure that extremist organisations, or people who have a dark agenda, are prevented from doing so. The other thing that we will make sure is that schools are inspected rigorously”.

And he stressed that he did not want to see schools teaching “creationism”, which rejects scientific explanations for life on earth in favour of religious beliefs.

“To my mind you cannot have a school which teaches creationism and one thing that we will make absolutely clear is that you cannot have schools which are set up, which teach people things which are clearly at variance with what we know to be scientific fact.”

But if schools are properly inspected and regulated “anyone who teaches in a way which undermines our democratic values can be brought to light, challenged and if necessary, closed down”.

He said “hundreds” of parents and groups of teachers had been in touch with the Conservatives to express an interest in the plans.

In an interview with The Sunday Times, Mr Gove said he wanted Sweden’s International English School to take over failing schools if the Conservatives win the election and his team had held talks with the French government about establishing state schools based on the Lycée Français in South Kensington, London.

Breathing exercises

The Lycée Français is a private institution which provides a French education for French expatriates and British parents who want their children to grow up bilingual.

“Under our plans you could have UK citizens sending their children to the Lycée at no cost because it would be fully integrated into the state sector,” he told the Sunday Times.

Mr Gove said his team had also recently met actress Goldie Hawn, whose Hawn Foundation charity runs schools in America and Canada and is said to be keen to open a school in the UK.

The Hawn Foundation teaches the Buddhist technique of Mindfulness training, which emphasises social and emotional progress over academic testing and the use of simple breathing exercises to boost learning power.

Mr Gove told The Sunday Times he could not see any serious barrier to her setting up a school within the English state system.

“We are going to have another meeting to discuss how she might be able to help and influence education here.”

‘Extra running costs’

He added: “Some parents would want a rigorous traditional academic education for their children with desks neatly marshalled and traditional football. Others will want something that is more flexible, more imaginative.”

But Schools Minister Vernon Coaker said: “For the first time, Michael Gove has admitted that the Swedish schools he wants to open with 220,000 additional surplus places would involve extra running costs.”

He challenged Mr Gove to “explain to parents where the estimated £1.8bn costs of these new surplus places would come from without big cuts to existing schools”.

Mr Coaker said: “Michael Gove’s claim that these reforms raised standards has been undermined in the last week by the Swedish Ofsted and international studies which have shown a big drop in school standards in Sweden.

“Now his claim that there would be no extra costs has been blown apart by his own admission he would need to find money from elsewhere to fund them.”

Thanks BBC.

Tagged with: bbc • buddhist • conservatives • creationism • Democratic • education • England • French • Goldie Hawn • Hollywood • London • SWEDISH • tories

Hillary Clinton Uses Telephone Diplomacy with Northern Ireland

On March 7, 2010, in Political, by admin

Hillary Clinton has been conducting telephone diplomacy with Northern Ireland politicians ahead of Tuesday’s vote on the devolution of justice.

The United States Secretary of State spent 15 minutes talking with Ulster Unionist leader Sir Reg Empey, looking for an update on his party’s position.

The UUP have said they will oppose the transfer of justice powers.

Ulster Unionist sources said Mrs Clinton did not try to strong-arm them into changing their position.

Ulster Unionists are to make a final decision on how they will vote on Monday night.

The UUP has been refusing to endorse the Hillsborough Agreement, insisting that matters such as education, parading and “the dysfunctional nature of the current Executive” must be addressed.

Mrs Clinton also spent 15 minutes talking to the Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness.

Thanks BBC.

Tagged with: bbc • Clinton • Hillary Clinton • Northern Ireland • politcians • Secretary of state Hillary Clinton • ulster • United States • vote

Scottish Artificial Limp Expert “Struck Off” Over Wrong Foot

On February 14, 2010, in Life/Culture, by admin

An artificial limbs specialist who fitted a left foot to a patient who had lost his right leg has been struck off.

Malcolm Griffiths admitted 16 charges relating to 11 patients at a rehabilitation clinic in Edinburgh.

The Health Professions Council heard complaints against Mr Griffiths, relating to his time at the Astley Ainslie Hospital.

One of the charges was he fitted a left foot to Patrick Morrison, 76, whose right foot had been removed.

The hearing heard that Mr Griffiths also failed to spot his error at two later check-ups.

Mr Morrison, from Bathgate, should have been given an artificial limb and right foot.

In pain

Mr Griffiths appeared before the conduct and competence committee of the Health Professions Council at the hearing in Edinburgh.

The charges he faced included fitting a lower limb with the wrong foot and and failing to provide adequate prosthetic care, which meant the socket required remaking.

Mr Morrison said he had been forced to have the limb fitted after an amputated toe became infected with MRSA following hospital treatment.

He said the wrongly fitted limb had a shoe on it which may have made the error harder to spot and that he bore “no malice” towards Mr Griffiths.

The specialist also faced several other claims relating to his time at the Astley Ainslie’s rehabilitation centre.

These included failing to keep adequate notes, failing to carry out repairs and leaving a patient in pain.

Mr Griffiths’ lawyer said his client admitted all the charges against him and requested that his name be removed from the health profession’s register.

Thanks BBC.

Tagged with: artificial limbs • astley ainslie hospital • bathgate • bbc • edinburgh • mrsa • pain • rehabilitation • right leg

Hillary Clinton in the Shadows of Obama?

On January 17, 2010, in Political, by admin

It was never going to be easy to be secretary of state in the shadow of a president who won the Nobel Peace Prize within months of taking office.

And that is what Hillary Clinton has perhaps found. President Obama has made such an impact on the world, partly from not being George W Bush, that she is sometimes left as an also-ran. Just as she was in the presidential elections.

It is the president who has re-fashioned American foreign policy from one widely seen as confrontational, into one in which he says he seeks engagement.

He, not Hillary Clinton, has set the agenda for America.

It was he who insisted on taking time with his advisers to debate sending reinforcements to Afghanistan.

It was he who reached out to the Muslim world.

It was he who insisted to the Israelis that they had to freeze settlements if there were to be further Middle East peace talks.

It was he who held out his hand to Iran, hoping for an unclenched fist. It will be he who will determine whether at some stage to move from sanctions to military action.

It was he who led the US negotiations over global warming, an issue which has not enthused her much.

Hillary Rodham Clinton (as she prefers to be called, emphasising her own family name as well as that of her husband) is finding it a hard task to fashion a distinctive diplomatic role for herself.

That is not uncommon among secretaries of state. Many have been swallowed up by history. Only those with strong personalities and willing and able to grasp the reins of foreign policy (under a president willing to leave that to them) have thrived at the time and in the memory.

Henry Kissinger under President Nixon and John Foster Dulles under President Eisenhower were modern titans. George Schultz for Ronald Reagan and James Baker for George Bush senior did some hard deal-making in their day. But who studies the works of Christian Archibald Herter, also a secretary of state under Eisenhower, and William P Rogers, who preceded Kissinger under Nixon?

It was a risk for Barack Obama to bring his rival into the administration’s tent. She is at heart more hawkish than he is and has had to tone this down. A crisis could yet arise when her instincts clash with his.

She has also had to accept that the infamous “0300 call” election advertisement was an empty, and unedifying, threat, which diminished her.

The ad was hardball stuff and attacked her election rival’s lack of foreign policy experience. Over pictures of sleeping children, the commentary said: “It’s 3am and your children are safe and asleep. But there’s a phone ringing in the White House… who do you want to answer the phone?”

Hillary Rodham Clinton is now happy for Barack Obama to answer that phone.

‘Celebrity’

She also has strengths. She is well-known and well-liked by her international colleagues and audiences. As Joe Klein of Time magazine put it: “She is an international celebrity with a much higher profile than any of her recent predecessors and the ability – second only to the President’s – to change negative attitudes about the US abroad.”

The administration is only a year old. Secretary Clinton will not be dissatisfied with her image. It is her achievements that remain in doubt.

How much of an adviser can she really be to someone who knows his own mind? Is she skilled enough at the hard graft of negotiating to be able to deliver what the president wants? And what happens if they have a major disagreement?

Thanks BBC.

Tagged with: Afghanistan • American • bbc • george w bush • henry Kissinger • Hillary Clinton • Hillary Rodham Clinton • Israeli's • james baker • Middle East • Muslim • Nixon • nobel Peace Prize • ronald Reagan • US

Taliban Attacks Indian Embassy! Here we go again…

On October 8, 2009, in Life/Culture, by admin

This just in from the BBC: A Taliban suicide bomber has attacked the Indian embassy in Kabul, killing at least 17 people in a second attack on the building in little over a year.

Afghan officials say a car bomber blew himself up near the Indian embassy and the Afghan interior ministry.

The Taliban said it carried out the attack and the embassy was the target.

Kabul has been attacked regularly in recent months, and the Indian embassy was itself bombed in July 2008, with dozens of people killed.

Most strikes in the capital target foreign forces or government offices – but civilians are also often killed.

More recently, six Italian soldiers were killed last month in a bomb attack on a military convoy.

‘Cleaners killed’

The latest blast hit at 0827 local time (0353 GMT), as residents were arriving to work.

India’s Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said the suicide bomber “came up to the outside wall of the embassy with a car loaded with explosives”.

Television pictures showed charred vehicles at the site and ambulances speeding to the location.

An eyewitness, Habib Jan, told the BBC the victims were civilians.

“A [Toyota] Corolla car was parked in front of the Indian embassy. It was rush hour, about 10 minutes after I arrived at the office when we heard an explosion.

“There were lots of workers cleaning the street – most of them have been killed.”

Regional links

Nirupama Rao told reporters that she believed the suicide bomb was directed against the Indian embassy.

In July 2008 a suicide bomber rammed a car full of explosives into the gates of the embassy, killing dozens of people and injuring more than 140.

India has a strong relationship with Afghanistan, building and managing infrastructure projects in what analysts say is a concerted effort to minimise Pakistani influence in the country.

Analysts say the strength of India’s relationship with Kabul has made it a key target for the country’s Taliban militants, who have historic links with Pakistan.

Afghan officials linked last year’s bombing to an “active intelligence service” – thought to be Pakistan.

Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said in an online statement that Thursday’s attacker was an Afghan man who blew up his vehicle outside the embassy.

The Afghan Interior Ministry said 17 people had died and 63 had been wounded in the latest attack. Fifteen of the dead were Afghan civilians and one was an Afghan police officer.

The BBC’s Martin Patience, in Kabul, says there appears to be a lot of damage at the scene – now sealed off – and that municipal workers have moved into the area with brooms to begin a clean-up.

Growing threat

This is thought to be the fourth bomb attack in Kabul since August.

Until the summer, the Afghan capital was regarded as relatively secure, but that is changing, our correspondent says.

Insurgents are increasingly targeting the capital because of the publicity it attracts.

Militants seem to be able to attack at will in what should be one of the most secure areas of the country, our correspondent adds.

Edrees Kakar, an office worker and freelance journalist, who heard the latest explosion, told the BBC: “These bomb attacks are happening so frequently that people no longer feel safe.

“People are leaving their homes less and less. We are frustrated and feel we are not getting sufficient help from the international community

Tagged with: afghan • bbc • Indian • kabul • nirupama rao • Pakistan • Pakistani • Taliban • toyoto

Australian Cook Book ask for Freshly Ground Black People

Elderly Lady Left in Car for 4 Hours only Finally to be Rescued by Police

Madonna and Son, David Return to Malawi

Two German Women Try to Smuggle a Corpse onto Flight

Hillary Clinton Offers Broader Support on Mexico’s Drug Wars

Volcano in near Eyjafjallajoekull, Iceland Erupts after 200 Years

Hillary Clinton Pledges Support to Israel After Beef

Goldie Hawn in Talks to Setting up Schools in England

Hillary Clinton Uses Telephone Diplomacy with Northern Ireland

Scottish Artificial Limp Expert “Struck Off” Over Wrong Foot

Hillary Clinton in the Shadows of Obama?

Taliban Attacks Indian Embassy! Here we go again…

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