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WORLD / NEWS Tue Jun 26, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

BBC News -- Opium production in Afghanistan is soaring out of control, the annual UN report on illegal drugs says. The World Drug Report says more than 90% of illegal opium, which is used to make heroin, comes from Afghanistan. It says cultivation of opium popp.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Jan 31, 2007 @ 12:36pm mrmdc

BBC News -- Germany has ordered the arrest of 13 suspected CIA agents over the alleged kidnapping of one of its citizens... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Jan 26, 2007 @ 9:55am mrmdc

Malta Star -- US President George W Bush will ask Congress for $8.6 billion to improve Afghanistan's army and police forces and $2 billion for infrastructure projects and anti-narcotics efforts, US Secretary of State Condolezza Rice revealed... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Dec 27, 2006 @ 12:14am neoform

Associated Press -- Pakistan said Tuesday it will plant land mines and build a fence on parts of its long, rugged frontier with Afghanistan to meet criticism it does too little to stop Taliban and al-Qaida guerrillas from crossing the border... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Nov 11, 2006 @ 6:13pm neoform

Independent -- British Muslims have been driven towards extremism and terrorist acts because of the UK's part in the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the head of MI5... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Nov 1, 2006 @ 11:32am mrmdc

CBC -- A Canadian commander transferred control of NATO troops in southern Afghanistan to a Dutch general on Wednesday as part of a rotational change of command... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Apr 30, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

CNN -- Britain's Prince William, who has faced criticism for misusing military helicopters, made a surprise visit to Afghanistan this week serving as part of an air crew that made the 30-hour trip from England. A royal spokesman said William, who caused an uproa.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Feb 7, 2008 @ 8:18am neoform

MSNBC -- All 26 NATO nations have soldiers in Afghanistan and all agree the mission is their top priority. But the refusal of European allies to send more combat troops is forcing an already stretched U.S. military focused on the Iraq war to fill the gap, and stra.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Jan 23, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- A student journalist sentenced to death in northern Afghanistan for allegedly blaspheming Islam may actually be paying the price for investigative pieces that his brother wrote, an international media group said Wednesday. Those articles exposed human rig.. Read More

WORLD / OPINION Tue Sep 11, 2007 @ 11:09am neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- Money urgently needed to reduce the vast backlog of inquests into soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan has not been provided by the government, raising fresh fears that existing delays will grow longer. Despite pledges to cut the time military famil.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Jul 23, 2007 @ 4:26am neoform

BBC News -- The former King of Afghanistan, Zahir Shah, has died at the age of 92 following a long illness. Zahir Shah was deposed in 1973 and went into exile, but returned to Afghanistan after the fall of the Taleban in 2002. Many Afghans had a deep love and r.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Jul 23, 2007 @ 4:26am neoform

USA Today -- Mohammad Zahir Shah, the last king of Afghanistan who returned from three decades of exile to bless his war-battered country's fragile course toward democracy, has died, President Hamid Karzai said Monday. He was 92. Weak if well-meaning during his 40-.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Jun 12, 2007 @ 12:13am neoform

BBC News -- The International Committee of the Red Cross says the situation in Afghanistan is growing worse with insecurity spreading and the conflict escalating. In a statement it said civilians were suffering unbearably, and that over the past year there had bee.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Apr 10, 2007 @ 12:45am neoform

CNN -- Australia is sending special forces commandos back to Afghanistan to hunt down the leaders of the resurgent Taliban as part of a doubling of Australia's troop numbers there, Prime Minister John Howard said on Tuesday. The deployment of 300 special-forc.. Read More

WORLD / OPINION Sat Mar 17, 2007 @ 9:49pm neoform

News.com.au -- AFGHANISTAN should the focus for Australia's troop deployment Labor has said, calling the country "terror central". Opposition foreign affairs spokesman Robert McClelland said Labor supported sending more troops to Afghanistan and withdrawing the force.. Read More

WORLD / OPINION Thu Mar 8, 2007 @ 8:22am neoform

ABC News -- Qamar laughed bitterly at the idea of International Women's Day, as if it were a cruel joke. As a woman encouraged by relatives to marry her stalker who was 20 years her senior, had three other wives and now beats her regularly Qamar found it preposter.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Mar 5, 2007 @ 6:07pm neoform

Yahoo News -- A "cancer of insurgency" in southern Afghanistan could drive the 2007 opium poppy harvest to record levels, the U.N. drug agency chief said Monday. The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime predicted that last year's harvest record would be broken by an incre.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Jan 19, 2007 @ 4:44pm mrmdc

www.aftenposten.no -- Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre has turned part of his visit to Afghanistan into a mission to save a goat herder's daughter... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Dec 4, 2006 @ 11:26am neoform

MSNBC -- Opium production in Afghanistan, which provides more than 90 percent of the world's heroin, broke all records in 2006, reaching a historic high despite ongoing U.S.-sponsored eradication efforts, the Bush administration reported yesterday... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Nov 14, 2006 @ 1:44am neoform

Economist -- PESSIMISM is something of an Afghan tradition. Yet the gloom that blankets Kabul ahead of the first snows of winter is as acute as it has been since the Taliban were ejected from the city on November 12th 2001. “Already the Americans are removing their.. Read More