UN fears Afghan opium 'explosion'
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The UN fears Afghanistan may grow even more poppies in 2007, surpassing already record levels.
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The United Nations warned nearly 90 countries including the United States and most of Europe on Thursday to prepare for more deaths from heroin overdoses because of surging opium production in Afghanistan.
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UN Secretary-General condemned on Sunday the attacks in a western Afghanistan province which may jeopardize the already worrisome security in the war-torn country before its scheduled general elections next month.
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Afghans significantly increased their poppy crop in the past year, fueling a narcotics trade that endangers U.S.-led efforts to stabilize the country, officials said Thursday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 2 -- Opium cultivation in Afghanistan rose a "staggering"  59 percent this year, the U.N. anti-drug chief announced Saturday in urging the government to crack down on big traffickers and remove corrupt officials and police.
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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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A record Afghan opium poppy crop means more will die of heroin overdoses in European cities, the UN warns.
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Afghanistan is on its way to becoming a "narco-state" and U.S. and NATO-led forces in the country should get more involved in fighting the drug trade as well as terrorists, according to a U.N. report released Thursday.
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Responding to a U.N. report warning it  risks becoming a narco-state after opium cultivation jumped to  record levels, Afghanistan said Friday the war on drugs was the  top priority but it opposed aerial spraying of opium fields.
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International aid to Afghanistan should be made conditional on the country showing real results and progress in the fight against opium production, UN anti-drugs chief Antonio Maria Costa said in an interview with AFP.
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Reports from the Afghan capital Kabul say there has been a big explosion near the five-star Serena hotel.
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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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The Taliban has seen a resurgence in Afghanistan due in part to proceeds from the nation's drug trade. Afghanistan produces about 93 percent of the world's illicit opium, despite U.S. efforts to eradicate it. "You can try to kill us but we will still grow poppy," one farmer told CNN.
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UNITED NATIONS -- The bombing of a UN election office in Afghanistan that injured six policemen yesterday has drawn calls from a UN union that the world body consider withdrawing its staff from the embattled nation.
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Facing opposition from Afghan President Hamid Karzai, the United States has set aside plans to use spray planes to kill opium crops in Afghanistan, the world's largest drug producing country. Karzai's opposition to spraying has frustrated some US officials who doubt that the vast amount of opium produced in Afghanistan can be significantly reduced without spraying. Opium is the raw ...
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With profits from this spring's record opium crop fueling a broad Taliban offensive, Afghan authorities say they are considering a once unthinkable way to deal with the scourge: spraying poppy fields with herbicide.
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Sophisticated laboratories inside Afghanistan are now converting 90 percent of the country&#39;s opium into heroin and morphine before smuggling it around the world, the United Nations said.