Afghan official quits as poppy crop soars
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's counternarcotics minister has resigned only weeks after Afghan laborers finished cultivating an opium poppy crop that could exceed last year's record haul.
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A senior United Nations official and another from the European Union left Afghanistan on Thursday after the government ordered their expulsion, accusing both of holding talks with the Taliban and for paying cash to the group.
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Text of report by Afghan state radio on 11 December  Afghan deputy minister for counternarcotics yesterday announced his disagreement with the idea of spraying the poppy plant fields with herbicide.
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Afghanistan has ordered a top European Union official and a United Nations staffer to leave the country for threatening national security, government and diplomatic officials said Tuesday.
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Macedonian Prime Minister Hari Kostov quit today over disagreements with ethnic Albanian parties in the governing coalition, triggering a government crisis in the ethnically tense Balkan state.
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In July, Afghan President Hamid Karzai ditched his vice-president, Marshal Mohammad Fahim, one of the countryâs most powerful warlords.
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BOSNIA&#39;S foreign minister resigned today, becoming the second Bosnian Serb official to quit in as many days after the international community imposed sanctions to punish Bosnian Serb authorities for failing to arrest war-crimes suspects wanted by a UN
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The governor of a troubled Afghanistan province spoke out last week about the governmentâs failure to control the Taliban. This week, heâs out of a job.
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Colombia's foreign minister resigns after the arrest of her brother on suspicion of links with paramilitary groups.
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Afghanistan, the world's biggest opium producer, is set for another bumper crop of opium poppies in 2008, providing a windfall for the Taliban, which taxes farmers to finance its fight against government and foreign forces, the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime said Wednesday. Production rose 34...
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Japan's agriculture minister resigns after only a week in office, in another blow for PM Shinzo Abe.
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An officer has resigned from the British army in protest at its &quot;grotesquely clumsy&quot; campaign against the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Sunday Times reports.
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Afghanistan's poppy harvest is expected to top all records this year as the country spirals deeper into a vicious circle of drugs, corruption and insecurity.
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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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Afghanistan says it needs more money to persuade farmers to stop growing opium poppies.
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Bangladesh's election commission head agrees to step aside after weeks of protests, officials say.
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Afghan farmers earned about $1 billion from opium production in 2007, by far the country's largest cash crop, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday.