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British Prime Minister David Cameron says talks with the Taliban are the only way forward to end the almost 12-year conflict in Afghanistan. Cameron, said in a joint press conference with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul that London is interested in holding peace talks with the Taliban. He added the Afghan government is also ready for the negotiations stressing a peace process involving the insurgents should have been set in motion earlier. His remarks came as Britain’s senior military officer in Afghanistan General Nick Carter said that the western front had an opportunity to talk to the Taliban 10 years ago but they went for the wrong choice of continuing to fight the insurgents. Cameron also urged the Taliban to endorse a “political process” and lay down arms. His stance is in diametrical opposition to what London has been pursuing in Afghanistan up to now. Since the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, 444 British forces have been killed in the country.
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Flat-pack shelters for Syrian refugees
They can be assembled in just four hours and be ready – without tools – for use in a crisis zone; flatpack refugee shelters are now being designed by Swedish furniture giant, Ikea. The United Nations’ refugee agency said it had turned to Ikea to produce
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the shelters and the first prototypes, costing $8,000 a piece, have already been produced and will be set up in crisis zones. “We will set up 26 (ready-to-assemble shelters) which have already arrived in Ethiopia. Twelve will soon arrive at the Iraqi border for Syrian
refugees and 12 in Lebanon, also for Syrians,” head of innovation at UNHCR, Oliver Delarue, told AFP news agency. Consisting of semi-hard plastic walls and roofs made from composite material and with room to house five people each, the cottagelike shelters have flexible solar panels on the roofs for power, according to AFP. The specially-made can also deflect heat during the day and retain it at night.
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