Kabul's old city getting face lift
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Last year the streets in parts of the old city dropped by nine feet.
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KABULâHundreds of turbaned Afghan men are patted down, poked and prodded by US security men before being permitted to enter the presidential palace.
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AS Hamid Karzai stepped forward to cut the ribbon across the entrance to Kabul&#39;s rebuilt national museum, a tall grey-haired man in a sharp suit stood beside him.
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A curfew restores some calm in the Afghan city of Herat, after violent   protests at the sacking of its governor.
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Liu Jielian isn't exactly impressed with the facelift the government recently gave her home in central Beijing as it seeks to spruce up the city for the Olympic Games in August.
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For years Shahrukh's face has lightened the screens and now you can capture his charisma on the walls too.
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SAKYAN, Afghanistan  - Afghan village elder Noor Mohammad stroked his white beard as he listened to a local government chief appeal for help to rebuild the economy of this snow-bound plateau shattered by war and the fight with the Taliban.
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KABUL, Afghanistan  - There are no paintings in  the Tajbeg Palace, but the bullet-pocked walls tell their own  epic tale of Afghanistan's turbulent history.
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AFGHANISTANâS capital Kabul was placed under tight security today for the historic inauguration of Hamid Karzai as the countryâs first popularly elected president.
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KABUL, Feb. 15 -- With its fortress-like outer walls and posh interior, its sumptuous brunches and post-sauna massages, the Kabul Serena Hotel was a symbol of both progress and privilege -- a haven for foreign visitors in a harsh, unfamiliar environment and an inaccessible tower for most poor...
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Mohammad Zahir Shah returned to Kabul from exile in 2002. He had been deposed in 1973 after a 40-year reign.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai and President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan signaled an improvement in relations after an unusually cordial meeting.
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As the hometown of the current Afghan president, Kandahar should be wrapped up for Hamid Karzai. But look around, and
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PARIS : Parisians turned out to see French and US military columns roll through their capital in an exuberant re-enactment of the day 60 years ago when Allied forces liberated the city from German occupation.
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HAVANA - In the heart of Old Havana, at a corner of Plaza de Armas, probably the city&#39;s most beautiful ancient square, a plaque on a building on a street bearing the unlikely name O&#39;Reilly declares an unexpected affinity.
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Symbols of former mainlanders' past, the villages are being plowed under to accommodate urban growth.
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Cheer came back partly to the Holy city, considered the birthplace of Jesus with Israel easing travel restrictions and extending goodwill gestures towards pilgrims and the Palestinian Authority (PA).