Urgent talks on Afghan expulsions
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Foreign officials hold emergency talks with Afghan authorities over two diplomats ordered to leave the country.
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The United Nations and European Union were Wednesday trying to settle a "misunderstanding" that led Kabul to order the expulsion of two senior European diplomats after claims they contacted Taliban militants.
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The diplomatic row over the extradition of Andrei Lugovoi could see tit-for-tat expulsion of diplomats and withdrawal of British cooperation in key areas.
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KABUL : Islamic militants holding three foreign UN workers said they expected to hold fresh talks with the Afghan government while President Hamid Karzai expressed hope the trio would be released &quot;very soon&quot;.
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Two officials from the EU and the UN, one of them a British national, are told to leave Afghanistan.
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Militants who say they are holding three foreigners hostage in Afghanistan say talks are about to open.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Police fled a town in western Afghanistan yesterday and suspected Taliban militants briefly moved in -- the second time in a month that the government has lost control of a district in the area.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai renewed a call for talks with Taliban insurgents on Sunday, shortly after a security scare forced him to cut short a commemoration speech when gunshots were fired outside the venue.
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Negotiations over three kidnapped UN workers in Afghanistan have hit a snag over ransom demands, officials said Tuesday, as Taliban-linked militants said they were debating whether to &quot;get rid&quot; of the hostages.
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Negotiations on the fate of three UN workers, including an Irish woman, kidnapped in Afghanistan have snagged over ransom demands, officials said today.
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Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett was in Afghanistan Wednesday for talks amid tight security a day after a suicide blast during a visit by US Vice President Dick Cheney killed at least 14 people.
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Militants threatening to kill three foreign hostages in Afghanistan allowed four days for negotiations on their demand that the United Nations withdraw from the country.
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Negotiations over three kidnapped UN workers in Afghanistan have hit a snag over ransom demands, officials said Tuesday, as Taliban-linked militants said they were
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Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett held talks with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf Monday amid concerns about the spiralling Taliban insurgency in neighbouring Afghanistan.
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Countries with troops in southern Afghanistan will discuss on Friday how to tackle rising violence by Taliban insurgents and mounting U.S. calls for bigger contributions to NATO's Afghan mission.
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The abduction of three foreign election  workers in Afghanistan could force aid groups to reduce their  international staff in a country that just finished counting  votes in its first direct presidential election.
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NATO military chiefs were set to wrap up a first meeting on Afghanistan amid urgent calls to boost their deployment in the south of the country where they have been surprised by the ferocity of the Taliban resistance.