Afghanistan&#39;s disturbing poppy explosion
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Kabul, Afghanistan -- In the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, where his $100 million empire is based, inquiries about Haji Bashir Noorzai elicit an anxious frown, a shrug or the vague explanation that he left years ago.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A roadside bomb blast in eastern Afghanistan killed four American soldiers yesterday, while two NATO soldiers died elsewhere and a battle in the country's poppy- growing heartland killed more than 50 suspected militants.
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Military investigators suspect a deadly explosion at a munitions dump outside Baghdad last year was caused by horseplay among some U.S. soldiers. But the truth may never be known.
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KABUL, 19 November (IRIN) - Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has increased by two-thirds, reaching an unprecedented 131,000 hectares, a new survey by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) revealed on Thursday.
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A deadly explosion has hit a car carrying an election worker in southeastern Afghanistan. In all, five people were killed, including the worker identified as a local physician who helped organize the vote.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - In the face of pressure from the American government, the administration of President Hamid Karzai is seeking the formation of an international scientific committee to review the safety of chemical herbicides to combat Afghanistan's opium poppy crop, Afghan and Western officials say.
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A U.S. report warns that an increase in poppy cultivation will expand the influence of drug lords on Afghanistan's government.
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A big explosion rocked the center of the Afghan capital on Sunday, but there was no immediate word on the cause, the extent of damage or casualties.
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Comment is free: Simon Jenkins: The vast increase in opium poppy farming in Afghanistan is indicative of an inability to grasp a basic law of economics.
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KABUL : Afghanistan&#39;s presidential vote count neared its end with Hamid Karzai edging closer to victory, but a weekend suicide blast in Kabul offered a deadly reminder of the dangers facing the war-weary nation.
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KABUL, Oct 16: Seven people, including two US soldiers, died in explosions in Afghanistan on Saturday. Three rockets were also fired in the capital, injuring one woman and damaging an apartment building, in
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Two US soldiers were killed and another was wounded in Afghanistan Wednesday in a blast caused by an improvised explosive device. The incident occurred in central Afghan
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Afghanistan&#39;s poppy cultivation increased by almost two-thirds this year and accounts for 87% of world supply of raw opium, a UN report said yesterday, warning of the country&#39;s descent into a drugs-based economy.
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At least four people are killed in a huge explosion in the Afghan capital, Kabul, but the cause is unclear.
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KABUL, Afghanistan  - At least seven children were  killed and several injured in an explosion near a school in the  southern Afghan province of Paktia, the Afghan Islamic Press  agency said Sunday.
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Several people are feared to have died after an explosion in Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, police say.
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Evidence emerges of growing concern over the scale of UK troop casualties in Afghanistan.