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Votes sell for about $5 in Afghanistan as presidential race begins
MARCO, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Sayed Gul walked into a small mud brick room in eastern Afghanistan, a bundle wrapped in a shawl on his back. With a flick, he plonked the package onto a threadbare carpet
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That Other Big Afghan Crisis, the Growing Army of Addicts
The addicts stalk the streets of this border post like hollowed-out skeletons, hair matted by filth and eyes glassy. The villages that hug the roads are veritable zombie towns, where families of men, women and children hide their addiction within barren mud compounds.
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In Afghanistan, interpreters who helped U.S. in war denied visas; U.S. says they face no threat
A growing number of Afghan interpreters who worked alongside American troops are being denied U.S. visas allotted by Congress because the State Department says there is no serious threat against their lives.
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Afghan opium harvest at record high
Afghan opium cultivation has reached a record level, with more than 200,000 hectares planted with the poppy for the first time, the United Nations says.
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Afghanistan's Opium Production Hits Record High
Afghan opium cultivation has hit a record high as international forces prepare to leave the country, the United Nations said on Wednesday, with concern that profits will go to warlords jockeying for power ahead of a presidential election next year.
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Taliban And NATO War on Twitter
As NATO forces prepare to leave Afghanistan, the group is waging a battle for the hearts and minds of Afghan youth—and it’s spilling onto social media.
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US Spent Billions on Afghan Projects That Will Fall Apart When We Leave
The United States and Afghanistan are close to finalizing a deal that would set guidelines for the two countries' relationship after 2014, when the bulk of American forces are supposed to leave the country—more than a dozen years and hundreds of billions of dollars later.
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Adulterers may be stoned under new Afghan law, official says
The latest sign that human rights won at great cost since the Taliban were ousted in 2001 are rolling back as foreign troops withdraw.
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Afghanistan 'plans to reintroduce public stoning as punishment for adultery'
Human Rights Watch calls on international donors to withhold funds if government presses ahead with controversial new law to bring back stoning
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Afghan president handed ultimatum after making last minute demands on U.S. security agreement
Hamid Karzai assured Susan Rice he would sign agreement, but gave no timeline
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Attacks on Aid Workers Rise in Afghanistan, U.N. Says
The number of aid workers killed in Afghanistan has more than tripled this year, making the country by far the most dangerous place in the world for relief work, according to data released by United Nations officials here.
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How Bin Laden Escaped in 2001—The lessons of Tora Bora
In 2001, a small U.S. special operations force had won extraordinary victories in Afghanistan and closed in on Bin Laden before high-level blunders allowed him to escape into Pakistan.
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Cameron: Afghanistan 'Mission accomplished'
Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday that British troops could leave Afghanistan next year with a sense of having accomplished their mission, despite worries about the ongoing Taliban insurgency, drug cultivation and human rights abuses. His comments were immediately compared to a banner bearing the words "Mission Accomplished" that was strung across the bridge of a US aircraft carrier in 2003 for a speech about the Iraq war by former US President George W Bush.
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U.S. repatriates two Guantanamo prisoners to Sudan
The United States has sent two detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility back to their native Sudan, the Defense Department said on Wednesday, the latest transfers in a effort toward eventually closing the controversial prison.
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Defense Department Holding First-Ever ‘Afghanistan White Goods Sale’
For years, department stores endured the winter doldrums with “white goods” sales that would lower prices on refrigerators, washing machines and other appliances to empty their warehouses. So it should come as no surprise that the Pentagon on Friday announced it is holding what it calls its first-ever “Afghanistan white goods sale,” where speed is of the essence and there are bargains to be had for wily shoppers.
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Meet the 10-year-old suicide bomber
Afghan authorities have detained a 10-year-old girl for attempting to carry out a suicide attack wearing a vest packed with explosives. The girl appeared yesterday at press conference in Lashkar Gah, the capital of the southern province of Helmand, where she told how her brother had forced her to wear the vest and ordered her to detonate herself at a police checkpoint.
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Atheist Afghan granted religious asylum in UK
An Afghan citizen has been granted asylum in the UK for religious reasons - because he is an atheist. The man fled to the UK from a conflict involving his family in Afghanistan in 2007, aged 16, and was allowed to stay in the UK until 2013. He was brought up a Muslim, but during his time in the UK became an atheist, his legal team said.
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US-funded hospital in Afghanistan forces staff to wash newborns in river water
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction finds shocking conditions at a facility built with US taxpayer money.
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Afghanistan Has More Women in National Parliament Seats Than the U.S.
Last year was touted as a milestone for American women in government. Ninety-nine female members were elected to the 113th Congress - 79 in the House, and 20 in the Senate - “the most ever in the history of America.” In the same year, Human Rights Watch named Afghanistan the “most discriminatory and unequal” country in the world for women.
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The Taliban Goes Broke
Afghanistan’s insurgents have endured hard times before, but nothing quite like this. A look at the group's crippling financial crisis
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