Afghan opium crop soars to "frightening levels": UN
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Opium production has soared to "frightening record levels" in Afghanistan, which now has more land producing drugs than Columbia, Bolivia and Peru combined, the United Nations said on Monday.
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The smuggling of Afghan heroin into Russia increased markedly this year, Moscow's interior minister reports.
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KABUL, Sept. 19 -- NATO and Afghan forces launched what officials called a "major military operation" against the Taliban in the southern province of Helmand, a haven for opium poppy cultivation and an insurgent stronghold that is considered Afghanistan's most violent territory.
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KABUL - Afghanistan&#39;s opium production is approaching record levels. A new United Nations report says drug production has shot up more than 60 per cent in the past year.
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Helmand province set to become world's biggest drug supplier, cultivating more drugs than entire countries such as Colombia, UN report says.
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Brussels - Opium growing in Afghanistan leapt by two-thirds this year, according to a new UN report on Thursday that warns the former Taliban stronghold could relapse into a &quot;narco-state&quot; and terrorism haven.
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The US says opium production in Afghanistan reached record levels last year, undermining the fight against the Taleban.
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Responding to a U.N. report warning it  risks becoming a narco-state after opium cultivation jumped to  record levels, Afghanistan said Friday the war on drugs was the  top priority but opposed aerial spraying of opium fields.
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KABUL, Afghanistan The United Nations says it&#39;s more and more worried about the well-being of three of its workers kidnapped in Afghanistan.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium The UN says heroin is big business in Afghanistan, and is calling on the United States and NATO to wage war on drug traffickers.
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The United Nations urged NATO forces Tuesday to take military action to destroy the opium industry in southern Afghanistan, saying cultivation of the crop is out of control in the embattled Asian country.
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Poppy cultivation in Afghanistan, the source of most of the opium and heroin on Europe&#39;s streets, was up sharply this year, reaching the highest levels in the
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Afghanistan's opium production will increase by nearly 50 percent this year to a record 6,100 tonnes after an &quot;alarming&quot; jump in cultivation in the lawless south.
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An annual United Nations&#39; survey released Thursday in Brussels finds that opium poppies are being grown in record levels across Afghanistan.
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The US president says he is concerned at Afghanistan's escalating opium industry in his annual report on major drug producers.
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The United States estimated on Thursday that Afghanistan's opium production hit a record high last year and said the narcotics trade is undermining democracy and security in the Southwest Asian U.S. ally.
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Afghanistan's poppy harvest is expected to top all records this year as the country spirals deeper into a vicious circle of drugs, corruption and insecurity.