Tag: afghanistan
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U.S. watchdog highlights dire state of Afghan road system
Billions of dollars spent building up Afghanistan’s road infrastructure over more than a decade risk going to waste because of poor maintenance, a U.S. Congressional oversight body said on Saturday. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction said U.S. agencies had spent $2.8 billion since 2002 building roads in Afghanistan but wear and tear as…
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VW HR chief says expects five-digit number of job cuts: FAZ
BERLIN/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Volkswagen expects the shift to electric cars to cost a five-digit number of jobs in coming years, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper reported, citing the carmaker's human resources chief. Karlheinz Blessing, who sits on VW group's nine-member top management board, said the carmaker will need to cut jobs in production as assembly…
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Most Afghan women serve sentences in elders’ homes, not prisons
By Mohammadullah Himatyar SHARANA, Afghanistan (Reuters) – When 18-year-old Fawzia was convicted of elopement and adultery, a local Afghan court in the southeastern province of Paktika sentenced her to jail. “I was treated like an animal and kept like a slave,” Fawzia told Reuters in Sharana, the provincial capital of Paktika. Fawzia is a familiar…
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Most Afghan women serve sentences in elders’ homes, not prisons
By Mohammadullah Himatyar SHARANA, Afghanistan (Reuters) – When 18-year-old Fawzia was convicted of elopement and adultery, a local Afghan court in the southeastern province of Paktika sentenced her to jail. “I was treated like an animal and kept like a slave,” Fawzia told Reuters in Sharana, the provincial capital of Paktika. Fawzia is a familiar…
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After Hurricane Matthew, Here’s How to Help Haiti
From the mid-Atlantic states to the Caribbean, Hurricane Matthew, now downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone, has left a path of death and destruction in its wake. Nowhere has been left more devastated than Haiti, where nearly 400 people have officially been confirmed dead, and the death toll is believed to be higher. Approximately 175,000 people…