Afghanistan's Frustrating Rebuilding Work
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The U.S.-led coalition is spending hundreds of millions of dollars constructing roads, bridges and buildings across Afghanistan. For the troops on the ground, it can be a frustrating and delicate job.
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Taliban opposition to NATO forces in  Afghanistan is far tougher than expected when alliance troops  were initially deployed to aid reconstruction, British Defense  Minister Des Browne will say on Tuesday.
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MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan  - Perhaps they should have seen it coming, but Afghanistan's traditional fortune tellers are under fire from religious elders who have branded their ancient practice as backward and un-Islamic.
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Sluggish pace of development and deployment has left big holes in checkpoint security, officials say.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- It's 11 a.m., and traffic on Taru Buz Khan Street is nearly jammed in both directions, crawling past a row of computer shops with stacks of Dell boxes in the front windows.
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WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is struggling to get congressional approval for millions of dollars in aid to a tribal paramilitary group in the semiautonomous region of Pakistan where Al Qaeda and the Taliban have gained such a foothold that they have been able to launch destabilizing attacks on both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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With even more U.S. contractors now in Iraq and Afghanistan than U.S. military personnel, government officials told Congress yesterday that the Bush administration is not prepared to manage the contractors' critical involvement in the American war effort.
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Afghanistan&#39;s historic election hung on a pot of ink in the end. Even as the ballot boxes from Saturday&#39;s presidential election were on their way to the counting stations, intensive
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Hamid Karzai has been cruising to victory in Afghanistan&#39;s first direct presidential elections, but the returns so far have underscored the ethnic fault lines that often divide the country.
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The assault on the city was accompanied by a pledge from U.S. officials to rebuild it after the offensive was complete. But keeping that promise may prove more difficult than anticipated.
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Country produces 87% of global opium. One in ten Afghans works in opium trade. UN: state is world&#39;s second worst to live in. By Nick Meo in Jalalabad and Leonard Doyle.
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Grenadians are struggling to rebuild amid the wreckage left behind by Ivan.
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The Bush administration's efforts to carry out the first phase of the law have been plagued with difficulties.
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In the year since insurgents ripped a hole in one of Iraqâs most sacred Shiite shrines, there has been no rebuilding and no healing.
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The massive relief operation continues to be hampered by insufficient coordination nearly a month after the tragedy.
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Surging violence in Iraq this month has  disrupted reconstruction work in parts of the country, but  plans are still on track for a tenfold increase in the number  of projects, a U.S. general said Sunday.
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Even as international aid arrives in the disaster zone, aid workers remain unsure of the size of their task.