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Afghan opiate use doubles in 5 years,UN says |
KABUL—Drug addicts as young as a month old. Mothers who calm their children by blowing opium smoke in their faces. Whole communities hooked on heroin with few opportunities for treatment. Use of opiates such as heroin and opium has doubled in Afghanistan in the last five years, the U.N. said Monday, as hundreds of thousands of
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Iran bans entry of 2 IAEA Inspectors |
TEHRAN - Tehran has informed the IAEA that it will no longer allow two of the agency’s inspectors to continue their visits to Iranian facilities due to their unreal reports a senior nuclear official announced here. Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali-Akbar Salehi said the other day that in the last session
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Oil firms challenge US drilling freeze |
NEW ORLEANS—Oil firms went to court seeking to lift a six-month freeze on deepwater drilling as the US government slapped BP with another major bill for the Gulf of Mexico disaster. The White House sent BP a bill for 51 million dollars, the third sent to the British energy giant and its partners for government expenses incurred
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