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Afghanistan   Farmers   Opium   Photos   War		  Globe and Mail 
War takes time out for opium windfall In Afghanistan, spring brings calm as farmers harvest ...
The swollen green poppy bulbs are being plucked from the fields as the annual spring harvest is under way in Afghanistan's volatile and dangerous Panjwai district. "Fifteen days," an Afghan farmer... (photo: Creative Commons)
An Iraqi refugee at the UNHCR office in Jordan´s Ruwaished camp. Fifty-three of the 150 Palestinians who were living in the isolated desert camp at the beginning of December 2006 were resettled to Canada at the end of that year. Another ten have be
Arab   Asia   Funds   Iraq   Photos   UN   UNHCR		  IRINnews 
IRAQ: Local aid groups support UNHCR appeal for more funds
web Photo: M.Bernard/UNHCR BAGHDAD, - Local aid organisations on 12 May joined the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in appealing to international donors for US$127 million to help Iraqi internally displaced... (photo: UNHCR/P.Sands)
Afghanistan  Infowars 
Real Clear Numbers: 101,000 U.S. Casualties a Year
A friend of mine who's a librarian was recently reviewing job applicants. Asked his qualifications in library skills, one man put "machine-gunner." He was a vet who'd served in Falluja. The library is... (photo: U.S. Marine Corps / Staff Sgt. Robert Piper )
Afghanistan   Iraq   Military   Photos   War
A local resident carrying a child, walks by a Uzbek soldier during the uprising in the city of Andijan, Uzbekistan in this Friday, May 13, 2005 file photo. Uzbekistan´s highest court on Monday Nov. 14, 2005 began reading its verdict in the trial of  Lexington Herald-Leader 
Human Rights Watch: Persecution after Uzbek violence
MOSCOW -- Three years after gunning down unarmed protesters in the city of Andijan, Uzbek authorities are still persecuting people they believe are linked to the unrest, an international rights group... (photo: AP/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
Asia   Human Rights   Photos   Uzbekistan   Violence   World
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Canadian army soldiers hand out food and radios at a village medical outreach program in Panjwai Province, Afghanistan, June 4, 2006. cg1 wnhires Canada Dot Com
Fanning flames of Afghan food crisis
Export restrictions and higher taxes in neighbouring countries are worsening an already dire food crisis in Afghanistan. Rick Corsino, the World Food Program's director... (photo: US Army/Spc. Jennifer Barba)
Afghanistan   Aid   Canada   Food   Photos
Locusts /aaeh Independent online (SA)
Afghanistan hit by plague of locusts
Kabul - Afghan authorities are examining the extent of an unprecedented locust infestation that has prompted local officials in some areas to offer wheat as a reward to... (photo: GFDL / Postdlf)
Afghanistan   Agriculture   Government   Insects   Photos
Street Children - Poverty - Afghanistan/ntf1 Khaleej Times
Rising prices heap pressure on Afghanistan's destitute
KABUL - Shamsuddin, his wife and their three children sit cross-legged on the floor around the cloth that Afghans traditionally eat off and use bread to pick from a... (photo: Public Domain)
Afghanistan   Food   Photos   Poverty   Prices
Bangladesh Cyclone. (mb1) The Manila Times
Wrong response aggravates Asia food crisis-ADB report

Asia's response to tightening global grain supplies has worsened food price inflation and uncertainty, according to an Asian Development Bank (ADB) report released on... (photo: AP / Saurabh Das)
Asia   Food   Inflation   Photos   Society
Pakistani special forces soldiers guard long lines of buses used to transport election officials and ther voting materials form the city court house in Karachi to the voting stations Sunday, Feb. 17, 2008. Voters will go to the polls in parliamentary elections on Feb. 18 The Manila Times
'al-Qaeda on the run'—Pakistan
By Dante 'Klink' Ang 2nd Executive Editor ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Even as military leaders here claim they have broken the terrorists' network and have the al-Qaeda on the... (photo: AP Photo / David Guttenfelder)
Afghanistan   Military   Pakistan   Photos   Terrorism
Afghan prisoners leave the prison courtyard before their release from Pul-e-Charki jail in Kabul on Monday, Sept. 13, 2004. The group of 371 Afghans who fought beside the Taliban against U.S.-led forces after the September 11 were released from Pul-e-Cha The Australian
'Time to talk to Taliban'
A KEY adviser and cousin of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has warned that fighting in the strife-torn country could drag on for 10 years or more unless the insurgent... (photo: AP Photo )
Afghanistan   Photos   Politics   Taliban   Terrorism


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