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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — This ancient land is telling the world that it has a trendy, new replacement for its dreaded poppy crop: sweet, juicy pomegranates ...  

A Canadian journalist from national broadcaster CBC was freed Saturday in Afghanistan four weeks after she was kidnapped in the capital Kabul, her employer said.  

A Canadian journalist freed after nearly a month in captivity was kept in a well near Kabul, Afghanistan's intelligence agency said Sunday, adding three men had been arrested.  

A journalist working for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Afghanistan was freed on Saturday after being kidnapped last month, her employer said.  

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If cultivated, the seeds would have produced enough opium for heroin with a street value in Europe of $1.5bn.  

Two men on a motorcycle used water pistols to spray acid on girls walking to school Wednesday in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, blinding at least two of them... schoolgirls in Kandahar can be recognized by their uniform of black pants, white shirt, black coat and head scarf.  

A very good sounds of war! Canadian Ambushed in Afghanistan, video by Scott Kesterson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaC-w2dIxZc  

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... turbine provided by the US will will double the electricity supply to the towns and districts of southern Afghanistan and reach 1.8 million people. ...  

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06/04/08  

Ein neues Gesetz erlaubt der Bundeswehr die Zwangsverpflichtung von zivilem Sanitätspersonal des Deutschen Roten Kreuzes zum Auslandseinsatz in Afghanistan.