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Rightfully so, all eyes are on the governor now to keep her promise and show government records belong to the public. |
The killings are a reminder that the war here extends well beyond the battle field, and into cities, houses and mosques. |
It is a tough job at the best of times. Being a Provincial Governor in Afghanistan may be prestigious, but any Taliban fighters operating in your area of remit will immediately view you as a prize target. |
Arsala Jamal knew he was under severe threat. The Taliban had already tried to kill him five times when he was Governor of Khost Province from 2006 to 2008. |
Speaking to Al Jazeera in 2008, he said he knew why they wanted to kill him. "I think these guys are going for 'Big Bang'," Jamal said. |
"Secondly, Khost is one of the provinces where they have no place. They are not controlling a big area or a district or a village, so probably the only way they can find [strength] is to have suicide attacks and IEDs." |
He was a close friend of President Hamid Karzai - helping to run his election campaign in 2009. After that, he was made acting minister for Borders and Tribal Issues. Thursday would have marked just six months in the job as Governor of Logar. |
But unlike Khost Province, where Jamal took pride in the lack of a strong Taliban presence, Logar continues to host the group in large numbers. |
On Tuesday, he attended morning prayers in the main mosque of the Provincial capital, Puli Alam. It was the first day of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha and once the Imam had finished leading prayers, he was invited to speak. A microphone in front of him was packed with explosives, said local police, and once detonat... |
Explosives placed inside mosques have been used by the Taliban before. In 2010, the Governor of Kunduz Province - another area of the country with a strong Taliban presence - was killed in such an explosion in a place of worship. |
As foreign forces pull back from combat roles ahead of their official withdrawal from Afghanistan at the end of next year, Afghan security forces are taking increasing casualties in line with their growing role in the fight. But government employees too are heavily targeted. |
As international troops leave the country, the Taliban are unlikely to take any pressure off the Kabul government, seen by the group as illegitimate. |
"The Kabul administration and the invaders are not only bent on playing havoc with Afghanistan domestically, but are marginalising the country at a regional and global level by signing colonial agreements and thus procuring reasons for the continuation of the war," read a statement attributed to the group's leader, Mul... |
President Karzai gave a speech after Eid prayers in Kabul this morning, mirroring his killed friend in Logar, pushing the Taliban to join the government in Kabul. They are unlikely to respond with a yes. |
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Ohioans pay an average price for electricity, $9.66 per kilowatt-hour, that is not far from the national average of $10.33. Clearly, state officials should be doing all in their power — pun intended — to hold rates down. |
State Rep. Jack Cera, D-Bellaire, does not believe that is happening. He explained why during a town hall meeting Monday in Martins Ferry. |
“Deregulation” of electric utilities in the Buckeye State has been “a big problem,” Cera said. Despite promises loosening the state’s regulatory reins would bring power prices down, that has not happened, he argued. |
Deregulation may have had some benefit, however. The current $9.66 per KWH average in Ohio is slightly less than the $9.73 three years ago. |
Still, Cera is right that state officials should take another look at utility regulations. Ideally, the free market ought to be allowed to work. But because many utilities enjoy monopolies, government has a role. |
Cera also criticized state subsidies for renewable energy. There is no reasonable question about that one: Taxpayers and utility consumers should pay what electricity costs and not have to bear the burden of social engineering. |
Speaking at opening plenary of Jewish GA, two Supreme Court justices discuss their Jewish identities. |
U.S. Supreme Court justices Stephen Breyer and Elana Kagan talked about their Jewish identities at the opening plenary of the 2014 General Assembly conference of the Jewish Federations of North America. |
Speaking before a crowd of more than 2,000 at the conference center just outside Washington, Breyer said the most remarkable thing about there being three Jews among the nine Supreme Court justices is how unremarkable it is in America today. |
Kagan, the other justice on the panel discussion moderated by NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg, said that her Jewish identity was the one thing that didn’t come up during her confirmation process. |
Kagan also talked about her bat mitzvah, crediting Rabbi Shlomo Riskin – then of the Lincoln Square Synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper West Side (and now rabbi in Efrat, West Bank), with enabling the ceremony even though that sort of thing was not done in Orthodox synagogues back when Kagan was a kid. |
The bat mitzvah wasn’t exactly identical to her brother’s, Kagan said – it was called a bat Torah, took place on Friday night rather than Saturday and had her chanting the haftarah portion rather than the Torah portion – but it was meaningful and groundbreaking nonetheless. |
Breyer said that when he thinks about what it means to be Jewish in the court, he thinks about the Jewish tradition of tzedakah. |
Breyer said the great divisions of the world today are between those who believe in the rule of law and those who don’t. |
“And that is a battle, and we’re on the right side of that,” he said. |
The theme of this year’s General Assembly is “The world is our backyard,” and speakers will include Vice President Joe Biden and, via satellite, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. |
“This year’s GA will remind us of why federation is relevant and critical,” GA co-chair Howard Friedman said. |
Malta is honouring a 2009 agreement signed with Libya in which it would assist the North African country in monitoring its search and rescue region, according to a letter sent to the International Maritime Organisation. |
But the Maltese government says it is unaware of the letter, which was reported by Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, which claimed that Libya will be calling upon Malta to monitor Tripoli’s SAR region. |
The letter, which according to Il Sole was signed by the president of the Libyan Ports Authority, Omar al Gawashi, also points towards the 2009 bilateral agreement to strengthen the base of Libya’s statement. |
Al Gawashi is said to have told the international maritime agency that Libya did not have enough resources to operate its SAR regions on its own and would therefore deploy Malta’s help. Tripoli did so because it wants to retain control over its SAR region, despite the number of persons trafficked from Libya to Europe b... |
“We have not received any formal letter from Libya or the International Maritime Organisation,” a spokesperson for the Maltese government said when contacted for a comment. |
Every month, thousands of irregular migrants, asylum seekers and refugees cross from Libya to Italy by sea, in the hope of making their way to Europe. But now Italy is facing a crisis, having decided to start taking in all migrants following the 2013 shipwreck tragedy when over 360 persons were killed. |
In previously unheard audio, released earlier this year, Italian authorities are shown to have let dozens of refugees drown in the Mediterranean, despite having been around 61 miles away from Lampedusa. The Italian Coast Guard is heard telling the Syrian refugees, who had launched a distress call, that they should be c... |
Since that incident, Italy agreed to take in all migrants rescued at sea, in an agreement with Malta that remains shrouded in mystery. |
But Italy is today buckling under the pressure of migrant numbers, and is seeking ways of stopping migrants from leaving Libya. The voyage from across the Mediterranean Sea, with Italy as the destination, is the main route to Europe for many, with over 95,000 having set sail this year. |
In Libya, many asylum seekers end up detained, face abuse, extortion and forced labour at the hands of armed groups, criminal gangs and smugglers, according to refugee aid agency Oxfam. |
Migrants who made it to Italy told Oxfam how they were kept in cells full of dead bodies, forced to call their families to ask for ransom money, and beaten and starved for months on end. |
Three-quarters of the 160-odd arrivals interviewed by the charity saw a fellow migrant tortured or killed, while at least eight in 10 said they suffered ‘inhuman or degrading treatment’. |
Now, the Italian Cabinet has agreed to send a mission Libya, to try to stem the influx of migrants by having Italian forces controlling the border within the North African country’s territorial waters. |
Viacom units pay $60 million for rights to the hit 1980s kids franchise. |
Nickelodeon and Paramount Pictures paid $60 million for rights to make a feature film and new TV series based on the "Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles," the company announced Wednesday. |
The Paramount movie and Nickelodeon CG-animated television series are planned for 2012. |
Nickelodeon — part of MTV Networks, a division of Viacom Inc. — said it had acquired the global rights to the "Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles" from The Mirage Group and 4Kids Entertainment. |
The television, film and video game franchise, based on a Japanese property, was a huge hit in the 1980s. |
The companies will continue to work with the original and long-standing toy partner, Playmates Toys, which has been the creative force behind the successful TMNT master toy program over the past two decades, the company said. |
Among other games, Golden State rallied from a big deficit and came up with a last-gasp winner to sink Dallas, former Celtics coach and now L.A. Clippers boss Doc Rivers won his first game back in Boston, and San Antonio's experienced core led the Spurs to a rout of Milwaukee. |
Oklahoma City made it 12 wins from 13 games with a 116-100 win at Memphis on Wednesday, with Russell Westbrook scoring 27 points for the Thunder. |
Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant added 18 points, and the Thunder had enough in hand to rest both him and Durant in the fourth quarter while maintaining a double-digit lead. |
Mike Conley had 20 points for the Grizzlies, who were playing the last of a season-long six-game homestand. |
Golden State's Stephen Curry made a pull-up jump shot with 3 seconds remaining to cap a sensational fourth quarter rally by the Warriors, who came from 18 points down to pip Dallas 95-93. |
Curry scored 16 of his 33 points in the final period and finished with nine assists, four rebounds and another big shot in a young career already full of them. |
With the clock winding down, Curry dribbled on the perimeter, came off a screen, faked a shot to send an opponent jumping past him, then made a 19-footer to give Golden State the lead for good. |
Dallas' Jose Calderon heaved a desperation shot at the buzzer that was never close. |
Harrison Barnes scored 17 points for the Warriors who overcame 18 turnovers and a sloppy start. |
Monta Ellis and Dirk Nowitzki each scored 21 points for the Mavericks. |
Boston's Jamal Crawford hit a pair of 3-pointers 23 seconds apart to help the Clippers pull away in the last 3 minutes and beat Boston 96-88. |
Crawford came off the bench to score 21 points and Chris Paul had 22 points, nine assists and seven rebounds for the Clippers. |
Jeff Green scored 29 points for the Celtics up against his old coach Rivers. |
Boston lost to the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday night, kicking off a reunion week of sorts by facing former Celtics Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce. One night later, Rivers returned to the TD Garden. |
San Antonio's Tim Duncan had 21 points and 16 rebounds while playing just 24 minutes and Tony Parker added 15 points to lead the Spurs to a 109-77 thumping of Milwaukee. |
San Antonio shook off some mediocre recent form and dominated from the opening tip, scoring the first nine points and built that to a yawning 38-point lead after three quarters. It could have been worse for Milwaukee, as the Spurs made only four of 17 3-point attempts. |
Rookie guard Nate Wolters led the Bucks with a season-high 18 points. |
New Orleans' Ryan Anderson shook off an unusually poor shooting night from long range, hitting two clutch 3-pointers in overtime that carried the Pelicans to a 111-106 victory over Detroit. |
Jason Smith scored 22 points and grabbed a career-high 16 rebounds for the Pelicans while Anderson finished with 22 points on 6-of-18 shooting. |
New Orleans native Greg Monroe had 28 points and 10 rebounds for Detroit, which led by 3 points early in overtime but lost their third in a row. |
Minnesota's Kevin Love had 26 points, 15 rebounds and five assists as the Timberwolves rallied from a 19-point deficit to beat slumping Philadelphia 106-99. |
Orlando snapped a six-game skid by beating Charlotte 92-83, with Jameer Nelson scoring 12 of his 17 points in the fourth quarter to guide the Magic home. |
New York blew a 23-point lead before recovering to beat Chicago 83-78, with Carmelo Anthony having 30 points and 10 rebounds. |
Utah halted a four-game losing run by defeating Sacramento 122-101, as Richard Jefferson scored 20 points. |
Whitney Houston was one of the biggest pop stars of the 1980s and early 1990s, and her work in “The Bodyguard” and “Waiting to Exhale” brought her acclaim on the big screen. Houston is seen here in February 1982 when she was a senior in high school. This was her first session with a professional photographer. Whitney H... |
Whitney Houston performs onstage with singer Jermaine Jackson in 1984 in New York. |
Cissy Houston (born Emily Drinkard) is pictured with her daughter, Whitney Houston, in the backyard of her home, West Orange, New Jersey on May 28, 1985. Cissy Houston won two Grammy Awards during her career. |
Whitney Houston Deluxe Anniversary Edition Album Cover. |
Whitney Houston is seen with the President of Arista Records, Clive Davis, at an event to celebrate Whitney's debut album “Whitney Houston” receiving a multi-platinum sales award in 1985 in New York. |
Whitney Houston performs on May 18, 1988, in Paris, France. |
Whitney Houston performs on stage, Ahoy, Rotterdam, Netherlands, April, 23 1988. |
Whitney Houston sings the National Anthem before Super Bowl XXV between the New York Giants and Buffalo Bills at Tampa Stadium on Jan. 27, 1991 in Tampa, Fla. |
Whitney Houston is pictured here with Bobby Brown. They were married in 1992. |
A file picture shows Whitney Houston posing with former U.S. President George H. W. Bush at the White House. |
From left, Bobby Brown, Whitney Houston, Kevin Costner and Cindy Costner attend “The Bodyguard” Hollywood premiere on Nov. 23, 1992 at Mann's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California. |
Whitney Houston sings during the closing ceremony of The World Cup before Italy played Brazil in the World Cup Finals at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif. on July, 17, 1994. |
Whitney Houston is seen here with her husband Bobby Brown and their daughter Bobbi Kristina. |
In a first-time duet, Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey, record "When You Believe," for the soundtrack Of Dreamworks' "The Prince Of Egypt." |
Whitney Houston performs on stage at the London Arena in 1999. |
From left, Brandy, Faith Hill, Chaka Khan, Whitney Houston, Mary J. Blige, and LeAnn Rimes are seen during the 'Divas Live--An Honors Concert for VH1 Save the Music' at the Beacon Theater in New York on April 13, 1999. |
Whitney Houston holds her Grammy award for Best Female Rhythm and Blues Vocal Performance for "It's Not Right But It's Okay" at the 42nd Annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 23, 2000. Houston received six Grammy Awards and one Grammy Hall of Fame Award during her career. |
Whitney Houston performs onstage at the 37th Annual American Music Awards on Nov. 22, 2009 in Los Angeles. Whitney Houston died in 2012 at the age of 48. |
Who is this future 'Queen of Pop'? |
Slideshow of celebrities and trailblazers who left their mark on society and died in 2016. |
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