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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’.
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Somali pirates on Wednesday seized a cargo ship in the Indian Ocean with 22 crew members on board, the European Union Naval Force said.
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When the newly elected New York City Council convenes in January, for the first time in its history white council members will be in the minority, as whites are in the...
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A dispute over drug trafficking territory in Rio de Janeiro has intensified lately, leaving in its wake unprecedented acts of violence, such as the downing of a police...
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Mahad Abdullahi Hassan had never heard of Nepal before the day he landed there. When the 28-year-old Somali boarded a flight from Dubai to Kathmandu on May 23, 2007, he...
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As violence rises in Afghanistan, the power balance between insurgent groups has shifted, with a weakened al-Qaeda relying increasingly on the emboldened Taliban for...
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Pornography isn’t confined to the sexual exploitation of young adults and children. Celebrity porn in this country is now almost as vicious (”Vote out the...
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Behind-the-scenes U.S. pressure has finally forced Iraq’s leaders to accept a political compromise, with Sunday’s vote in the Iraqi parliament to adopt an...
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Silvio Berlusconi took a step closer to having his corruption charges consigned to the dustbin yesterday when a key coalition ally backed a new limit on the time the...
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Uganda’s former army chief James Kazini has been killed at his girlfriend’s flat in the capital, Kampala.
A BBC correspondent says Maj Gen Kazini died...
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Seven FARC rebels and four government soldiers were killed in separate engagements in southwestern and eastern Colombia, the military said.
All of the guerrilla losses...
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Gunmen burst into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and opened fire in a violence-plagued Mexican border state, killing one person and wounding four others, authorities...
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Whenever the crisis in Zimbabwe looks to be in danger of collapsing the fragile unity government, the principals call on SADC - who invite them all to a...
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Hagadera Refugee Camp, Kenya–For months, 18-year-old Ahmed Abdullahi had dodged the mortar shells that whizz daily through Mogadishu, the war-ravaged capital of...
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Brazil and the U.S. urged Colombia and Venezuela on Tuesday to talk out their differences after Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez ordered his military to prepare for a...
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It’s been an almost endless summer in Lebanon, with beach weather and relative political harmony continuing well into November. The only thing marring what could...
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According to ABC News, the investigation of last week’s Fort Hood shootings has also begun to focus on Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical imam currently living in Yemen...
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“Friend, you cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. And what one person receives without working for, another person must...
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According to a study released by the Harvard Medical School, 2,266 veterans under the age of 65 died last year as a result of not having health insurance. Researchers...
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In Japan, being thin isn’t just the price you pay for fashion or social acceptance. It’s the law.
So before the fat police could throw her in pudgy purgatory, Miki...
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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...
