Warning over Afghan opium
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Afghanistan's soaring opium trade threatens to wreck rebuilding efforts, the UN and World Bank warn.
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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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A Canadian U.N. official who advised the Afghan government on eradicating opium poppy crops was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison for smuggling and drug possession.
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An increase in Afghanistan's opium poppy crop and the illicit drugs trade is endangering rebuilding efforts the US says.
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Afghanistanâs President Hamid Karzai has declared a âholy warâ on Afghanistanâs runaway narcotics industry, calling for international aid to counter a threat he said was more dangerous than any his country has faced in more than 20 years of war.
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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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Afghanistan&#39;s first directly elected president, Hamid Karzai, has warned that the country must face down radical extremists and defeat the drug trade.
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Afghan police have seized more than half a tonne of heroin and opium in the eastern province of Nangarhar, the interior ministry said Wednesday.
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Despite being urged to do so by Afghan and western counter-narcotics chiefs, British troops are wary of joining the offensive against the drugs trade in Afghanistan.
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Afghan poppies should be used to make opium rather than be destroyed, UK politicians say.
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The United Nations warned nearly  90 countries including the United States and most of Europe on  Thursday to prepare for more deaths from heroin overdoses  because of surging opium production in Afghanistan.
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The amount of opium produced in Afghanistan has broken records again, official figures are due to reveal.
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Sophisticated laboratories inside Afghanistan are now converting 90 percent of the country&#39;s opium into heroin and morphine before smuggling it around the world, the United Nations said.
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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.
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Poppy cultivation in Afghanistan, the source of most of the opium and heroin on Europe's streets, was up sharply this year.
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KABUL: Responding to a UN report warning it risks becoming a narco-state after opium cultivation jumped to record levels, Afghanistan said on Friday the war on drugs was the top priority but opposed aerial spraying of opium fields.
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Reuters London Oct 29: UN figures on Afghanistan will show a big rise in drug cultivation and production in the past year, the British Foreign Secretary, Mr Jack Straw has said, as he chided international donors for not meeting their pledges.