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US says Afghanistan makes progress in fighting drugs
Mar 8th, 2012
The Afghan government has made progress in the last year in fighting drugs trafficking and cultivation, although the "gains remain fragile," a US State Department report said Thursday. (Source: AFP) -
GENEVA (AP) - The Syrian civil war contributed to pushing the numbers of refugees and those displaced by conflict within their own nation to an 18-year high of 45.2 million worldwide by the end of 2012, the U.N. refugee agency said Wednesday. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A man in an Afghan army uniform turned his weapon on American trainers working with him in the country's east on Saturday, killing three of them, while an attacker with a grenade killed an Italian soldier in the west, officials said. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - Talks between Britain and Ecuador ended with no breakthrough over Julian Assange, the British Foreign Office said on Monday, nearly a year after the WikiLeaks founder fled to the Ecuadorean embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden. But Foreign Secretary William Hague and his Ecuadorean counterpart, Ricardo Patino, agreed ... [Full Article]
BEIRUT (AP) - Hezbollah's leader vowed Friday that his militants would keep fighting in Syria "wherever needed" after the U.S. agreed to arm the rebels in the civil war, setting up a proxy fight between Iran and the West that threatens to engulf more of the Middle East. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]