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Breaking News Tue, 13 May 2008
 Opium poppy                 wnhires  (js1)
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)
Rice
Agriculture   Food   Photos   Prices   Rice  
 Dawn 
Rice to stay costlier
| By Amin Ahmed | RAWALPINDI, May 12: Rice prices have skyrocketed by around 76 per cent between December 2007 and April 2008, according to the ‘Rice Price Index’, released by the United Nations Food ... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
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 ... (photo: U.S. Marine Corps / Staff Sgt. Robert Piper )
Afghanistan   Iraq   Military   Photos   War  
 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  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 displace... (photo: UNHCR/P.Sands)
Arab   Asia   Funds   Iraq   Photos   UN   UNHCR  
Top Stories
Enduring Freedom, ENDURING FREEDOM BBC News
UN closes Afghan refugee centre
| The UN has closed its repatriation centre in eastern Afghanistan because of unrest in the city of Jalalabad. | The temporary closure comes as aid agencies say it is bec... (photo: Other Service / SGT ALBERT EADDY, USA)
Afghanistan   Military   Photos   Refugee   UN  
President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev looks up during a press conference after his meeting with his Hungarian counterpart Laszlo Solyom, not seen, in Budapest, Hungary, Friday, Nov. 23, 2007. Nazarbayev arrived to Hungary Friday for a two-day long official visit to meet top Hungarian politicans. Wall Street Journal
Kazakh Leader's Daughter Monitored U.S. Bribe Case
The daughter of Kazakhstan's president used well-connected Washington private security consultants to gather information on a U.S. bribery probe involving her father that... (photo: AP Photo / Bela Szandelszky)
Kazakhstan   Law   Money   Photos   US  
A soldier from the Afghanistan Security Guard (ASG) stands guard a traffic control point (TCP) in Bella, Afghanistan, Feb. 15, 2008. The ASG man the only TCP around Bella 24-hours a day The Australian
Militants killed in Afghani raids
| US-LED and Afghan troops killed several insurgent fighters in a series of operations across Afghanistan over the weekend, including one targeted at bombmakers, the forc... (photo: US Army / Spc. Jordan Carter)
Afghanistan   Defence   Photos   Taliban   US  
Palestinian children attend classes at a United Nations school in the Shati refugee camp IRINnews
ISRAEL: Dozens of refugee children outside school system
web | Photo: Tamar Dressler/IRIN TEL AVIV, - Hope may be on the horizon for dozens of children of refugees and asylum-seekers who fell through the cracks and have been le... (photo: AP / Khalil Hamra)
Children   Israel   Photos   Refugee   School  
 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 direct... (photo: US Army/Spc. Jennifer Barba)
Afghanistan   Aid   Canada   Food   Photos  
MEAT - FOOD - COMMODITY Knox News
Johnson: Spoiled by cheap food
| High food prices are killing people - literally. At least five people died in Somalia last week when violent protests erupted over rising food prices and a collapsing c... (photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo)
Food   Killing   Photos   Prices   Somalia  
Afghan villagers shout anti-U.S. and Afghan government slogans during a demonstration after a U.S. operation in Shinwar district of Nangarhar province east of Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday, May 10, 2008. BBC News
US operation sparks Afghan unrest
| The east Afghan region of Nangahar has seen violent protests after US forces raided a house, killing three people, arresting nine and seizing arms. | The US-led coaliti... (photo: AP / )
Afghanistan   Civilians   Defence   Photos   Protest   Slideshow  
 Locusts /aaeh  Independent online
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 sin... (photo: Public Domain)
Afghanistan   Food   Photos   Poverty   Prices  
An Afghan girl holds a bread in her hand as she is carried by her mother in Kabul, Afghanistan,Thursday, May 1, 2008. Canada Dot Com
Food crisis continues to get worse
| KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan -- Export restrictions and higher taxes in neighbouring countries are worsening an already dire food crisis in Afghanistan. | Rick Corsin... (photo: AP Photo / Rafiq Maqbool)
Afghanistan   Drought   Food   Photos   Poverty   War  
Stock & Market Business & Trade
- Rice to stay costlier
- INVESTOR'S DIARY: ENTERTAINMENT A case for recession-pro
- An oil-addicted ex-superpowe
- Wrong response aggravates Asia food crisis-ADB r
Rice
Rice to stay costlier
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- Kazakhstan threatens oil consortium
- Petrolinvest allowed to take over Kazakh oil companies
- Rice to stay costlier
- Soros sees 'reflexivity' theory of economics as life
Rice
Rice to stay costlier
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Economy Industry
- Dollar stays flat ahead of Bernanke speech
- Apple expands agreements to offer iPhones in Asia this year
- US needs to understand Asia better
- China raises bank reserve ratio again to tame inflation surg
US Dollar - USD - Currency - Money - Forex. (ps1)
Dollar stays flat ahead of Bernanke speech
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- Speakers for political solution of Afghanistan issue
- Eni delays Kashagan oil field production further
- The Disney formula
- Kazakhmys dismisses derisory ENRC £7bn bid in miner squabble
 Members of a Chinese military honor guard march during a welcome ceremony for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Gen. Peter Pace at the Ministry of Defense in Beijing, China, March 22, 2007. cg1
China's submarine progress alarms India
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Money & Finance Oil & Gas
- Soros sees 'reflexivity' theory of economics as life
- Kazakh Leader's Daughter Monitored U.S. Bribe Case
- Rising prices heap pressure on Afghanistan's destitute
- Kazakhmys dismisses derisory ENRC £7bn bid in miner squabble
President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev looks up during a press conference after his meeting with his Hungarian counterpart Laszlo Solyom, not seen, in Budapest, Hungary, Friday, Nov. 23, 2007. Nazarbayev arrived to Hungary Friday for a two-day long official visit to meet top Hungarian politicans.
Kazakh Leader's Daughter Monitored U.S. Bribe Case
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- Oil falls towards $123 on profit-taking
- Eni delays Kashagan oil field production further
- Odessa-Brody oil line reversal nears completion
- BP Migas: Land Acquisitions Lead to Dec. 2008 Production for
 crude oil
Oil falls towards $123 on profit-taking
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Farming Politics
- Farmers urged to breed cattle
- Call to raise wheat support price
- KARACHI: Meat prices rise as strike continues
- Bangladeshis told "eat potatoes" as rice prices so
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Farmers urged to breed cattle
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- Afghan turmoil makes waves in Islamabad
- Speakers for political solution of Afghanistan issue
- Another D-Day for Pakistan over militants
- Soros sees 'reflexivity' theory of economics as life
 A British soldier talks to Afghan boys during a patrol in Musa Qala in Afghanistan, Saturday, Dec. 1
Another D-Day for Pakistan over militants
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