Report urges help for Afghan farmers
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A new report on Afghanistan's drugs trade urges investment to provide alternative livelihoods for farmers.
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The cost of future outbreaks of foot-and-mouth may have to be met by the industry, farmers are being told.
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Opium growth in Afghanistan's unstable south and southwest continues at an alarming rate, and is a windfall for anti-government forces who tax farmers, a U.N. report said Wednesday.
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KABUL - An international rights group said it knows of more prisoners dying in US military custody in Afghanistan and called on Washington to reveal details of the cases.
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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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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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President Hamid Karzai appointed Sunday a commission to investigate claims of heavy civilian casualties in anti-Taliban bombing raids by the US-led and NATO forces in southern Afghanistan this week.
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Text of report by Afghan independent Radio Sahar on 11 September  [Presenter] The German Development Bank is due to offer a contribution of 5.5m euros to help supply Herat Province [in western Afghanistan] with water. This offer is said to be a part of Germany's contribution to Afghanistan.
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Efforts to slash opium production in Asia are having mixed results, with cultivation up massively in Afghanistan but almost wiped out in the Golden Triangle region, a United Nations report said.
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There are too few British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, and they do not have all the equipment they need, increasing the risk they may fail in their missions there, a parliamentary committee report due out Wednesday will warn, The Guardian said.
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BERLIN  - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said the international community would need to help rebuild the security forces in his war-ravaged country for at least another two years, in an interview broadcast Monday.
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The humanitarian situation in Afghanistan has worsened in the last year and civilians are bearing the brunt of suicide attacks and aerial bombing raids, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Tuesday.
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SOFIA: Farmers in the southeastern Afghan province of Ningharhar are to turn from opium production to instead produce rose oil, a key component of perfume, by planting 40,000 Bulgarian rose plants, a report ...
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Kabul expresses concern to US and British officials after a mystery spraying of herbicide on opium crops.
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The NATO mission in Afghanistan is being undermined by members' failure to provide adequate troops and by serious strategic mistakes, a panel of British lawmakers said Wednesday in a report.
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Afghanistan should have a greater say in spending billions of dollars of aid money, its foreign minister said at the start of a conference on reconstruction of the war-ravaged country.
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Brussels - Opium growing in Afghanistan leapt by two-thirds this year, according to a new UN report on Thursday that warns the former Taliban stronghold could relapse into a &quot;narco-state&quot; and terrorism haven.