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BBC World News, 23.04.13 20:32 UTC

Canada train plot: Iran's al-Qaeda problem

It is difficult to believe that there is an operational alliance between Iran, a hard-line Shia Muslim state, and al-Qaeda, an extremist Sunni Muslim outfit.

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Daily Mail, 21.04.13 02:32 UTC

The lost Briton of Guantanamo: He's been cleared - but had a devastating secret about MI6 and the Iraq invasion which means he can never be freed

PUBLISHED: 00:04 GMT, 21 April 2013 | UPDATED: 00:04 GMT, 21 April 2013 Aamer joined the strike in early February and has already lost several stone. Fifteen men are being force- fed through tubes ...

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Seattle Times, 16.04.13 09:46 UTC

West's mores, China imports challenge the burqa

The homespun Afghan burqa is under siege from east and west these days - cut-price competition from China, and Western influences that are leading many urban women to exchange the full-body cloak for a simple headscarf.

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Daily Mail, 08.04.13 07:13 UTC

'It was a great adventure for her ... She loved it': Father pays tribute to promising female diplomat, 25, killed in Afghan suicide bomb

PUBLISHED: 13:51 GMT, 7 April 2013 | UPDATED: 06:45 GMT, 8 April 2013 A promising young diplomat from Chicago has been killed in a suicide bombing along with five other Americans in the deadliest day ...

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CNN Top Stories, 07.04.13 12:04 UTC

Kerry laments killing of U.S. worker

(CNN) -- Secretary of State John Kerry took a moment out of his trip to the Middle East Sunday to lament the killing of a Foreign Service member, who was one of six Americans recently killed in ...

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NPR, 06.04.13 16:10 UTC

Six Americans Killed In Afghan Attacks

Six American troops and civilians and an Afghan doctor were killed in attacks on Saturday in southern and eastern Afghanistan as the U.S. military's top officer began a weekend visit to the country, ...

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NPR, 02.04.13 16:50 UTC

How A Female Photographer Sees Her Afghanistan

Born in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 1984, photographer Farzana Wahidy was only a teenager when the Taliban took over the country in 1996. At age 13 she was beaten in the street for not wearing a burqa, ...

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Wikipedia

Kandahār, also spelled Qandahār, is the second largest city in Afghanistan, with a population of 324,800 (2006 estimate). It is the capital of Kandahar province, located in the south of the country at about 1,005 m (3,297 feet) above sea level. The Arghandab River runs right next to the city. Kandahar is a major trading center for sheep, wool, cotton, silk, felt, food grains, fresh and dried fr...

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