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Drugs tests are to be offered to all Italian MPs and senators from tomorrow in a bid to prove their parliament is not an ‘opium smoking den’.
The testing of Italy’s serving politicians is not obligatory and has been promoted by Carlo Giovanardi, a...
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Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi’s medal.The seizure of her prize is an expression of the Iranian government’s harsh...
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A Swiss adventurer went down in the Atlantic on Wednesday while trying to fly from Morocco to Spain with jet-powered wings strapped to his back. A rescue helicopter...
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Dozens of people were killed in a remote corner of Central African Republic when Ugandan rebels attacked villagers but were then ambushed by Ugandan soldiers, a witness...
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The German defence minister, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, tol the Berlin parliament that Gen Schneiderhan had been relieved of his duties for not explaining to his...
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Four Archbishops, including Cardinal Desmond Connell, will be named over their mishandling of hundreds of allegations, including not reporting crimes to the...
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President Hugo Chávez rolled out the welcome mat here on Wednesday for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, using the visit to strengthen Venezuela’s political...
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I note the basic stalemate within the ‘power-sharing’ government in Harare, and the lack of any progress. South African President Jacob Zuma was supposed to...
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The United States risks souring relations with much of Latin America if it recognizes a presidential election in Honduras on Sunday, the foreign policy adviser to...
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The notorious murder of the popular folk singer — who became a symbol of resistance after he was tortured and shot to death in the chaotic first days of Chile’s...
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This is the moment when British-bound migrants hiding in lorries bound for Dover were flushed out in a police swoop.
The two would-be illegal immigrants were among 30...
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My calendar year runs from one Thanksgiving to another.
Since the last Thanksgiving, I have lost my father. Some days, I still wait to wake up from my nightmare even...
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The son of a Philippines clan boss, suspected of the massacre of at least 57 journalists and political activists, turned himself in today, as investigators announced...
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Jordan’s dams are filled with more water than what they had at this time of the year last year due to...
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In Argentina, a street demonstration is more than a political act – it’s a profession.
Ever since the country’s economic crisis of the late 1990s, unemployed...
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A helicopter belonging to an international military contractor has gone missing in Afghanistan, officials said Thursday.
The helicopter for Supreme Global Service...
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Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu announced today his cabinet’s decision, “To suspend new construction in Judea and Samaria.” (Yes, they still call it...
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Islamic religious authorities have begun tightening their grip on Iranian public schools, a report said Wednesday, as hard-liners expand an ideological “soft...
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This Sunday “60 Minutes” will present an investigation into how the global gold industry is helping fuel violence and chaos in the Congo.
CBS reporter...
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Early this morning, November 26, 2009, a blast has been reported from the Rasheedabad area on Charsadda Road of Peshawar. Two policemen, including an SHO, are reported...
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Anti-Semitism is rampant all over the world, and it doesn’t help that the anti-Zionist/anti-Israeli movement is so vocal and so vitriolic. Regardless of whether...
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It was a heated debate during the Bush administration: What to do about evidence that Afghanistan’s powerful defense minister was involved in drug trafficking?...
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Targeting Afghan drug lords as part of the war on terror is a strategy that can best be described as better late than never. This is because drug money, rooted in the...
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SARAB, Afghanistan - Open the door to Islam Beg’s house and the thick opium smoke rushes out into the cold mountain air, like steam from a bathhouse. It’s...
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For as long as anyone can remember, there was no need for paper money in this remote corner of the Hindu Kush. The common currency was what grew in everyone’s...
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A friend has a great story about Englishman James Brett and his one-man mission to convert Afghanistan’s poppy fields into a pomegranate cash crop. In 2007, he...
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The area of poppy production in Afghanistan and the yield of opium from these crops have reduced this year compared with 2007, a UN report says
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Afghanistan’s opium trade funds the arms, ammunition, and military operations of the Taleban who made an estimated $100m (£50m) in 2007 from Afghan poppy farmers by...
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Afghanistan, the world’s biggest producer of heroin and opium, is battling drug addiction. 2005 UN figures disclose one million addicts among 30 million people....
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The illicit steady growth of opium production in India is alarming. The question lies of whether who is behind these hectares of lands where plantations of illegal...
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In this March, 1999 file photo, Myanmar soldiers and civilians use sticks to cut the opium poppies in a jungle field in Shan State, northeast of Myanmar. Rising prices for opium in Southeast Asia and the global economic downturn may trigger a surge in...
