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<title><![CDATA[17 more schoolgirls poisoned]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[PAN: At least 17 schoolgirls were brought to hospital for possible poisoning in central Bamyan province on Wednesday, a day after 75 schoolgirls fell sick after a suspected poisonous gas attack in northern Faryab province, officials said. The Bamyan Girls&#8217; High School students started vomiting and fell unconscious after smelling gas at their classrooms in the morning...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 20:24:10 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Afghanistan: Surge in Women Jailed for &#8216;Moral Crimes&#8217;]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Human Rights Watch: The Afghan government should take urgent steps to halt an alarming increase in women and girls imprisoned for &#8220;moral crimes,&#8221; Human Rights Watch said today.  Commitments by senior government officials to end such abuses have had little practical impact. Statistics from Afghanistan&#8217;s Interior Ministry indicate that the number of women and girls imprisoned for...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 18:55:34 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Race to save Afghanistan&#8217;s Buddhist treasures]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Al Jazeera: Archaeologists just south of Kabul are racing to preserve one of the richest Buddhist historical sites ever found. The ancient monasteries and statues in Mes Aynak are under threat from a Chinese company which plans to develop the area in order to tap into the world&#8217;s second largest copper deposit.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 04:30:43 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Afghanistan&#8217;s parliament fails to pass women&#8217;s rights legislation]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[GlobalPost: Afghanistan&#8217;s parliament has blocked women&#8217;s rights legislation approved by President Hamid Karzai in 2009, claiming that it is un-Islamic. The Elimination of Violence Against Women Law, or EVAL, which requires parliamentary support to pass, aims to prevent violence against women, child marriages, and forced marriages.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 16:41:38 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Twin blasts kill 9, wounds 55 in Afghanistan&#8217;s Kandahar]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Xinhua: At least nine people were killed and more than 55 others wounded Friday evening when two back-to-back explosions rocked Kandahar city, capital of the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, a provincial government spokesman said. &#8220;The initial reports said that three police officers and six civilians had died and over 55 wounded in two explosions which took place in Hyno area of the city Friday evening,&#8221;...]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 17:15:56 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Afghanistan&#8217;s minister accuses MPs of smuggling, nepotism and]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Daily Beast: The impeachment of Afghan Finance Minister Omar Zakhilwal, on charges of accusing M.P.s of smuggling, began like any other. Zakhilwal patiently listened to members of Parliament ask their questions&#8212;about budget cuts, nepotism in his ministry, and tax evasion by large companies.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 13:33:51 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Child refugees flee war in Afghanistan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[CBS News: As the U.S. military continues its exodus from Afghanistan, the long war has caused another exodus few know about in the U.S. Thousands of mostly teenage boys have fled their war-torn country to embark on a 10,000-mile trek to Europe that most will not complete -- many because they die along the route. Anderson Cooper reports on one of the largest child migrations in modern times on 60 MINUTES, Sunday, May 19 at 8 p.m. ET/PT.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 12:56:33 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bomb kills 15 in Kabul, including children]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Associated Press: A suicide car bombing tore through a U.S. convoy during rush hour in the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing at least 15 people, including six U.S. military advisers and two children, officials said. U.S. soldiers rushed to the scene to help, including some wearing only T-shirts or shorts under their body armor.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 11:13:04 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kabul protest turns violent]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[PAN: More than 2,000 residents of Dehsabz district on Wednesday staged a violent protest against the no-payment of their land seized by the government, officials said. The two-hour protest erupted at 9am on the Pul-i-Charkhi-Airport road, hurling stones at police and journalists, injuring the deputy police chief, Brig. Gen. Daud Amin, and a photographer of Pajhwok Afghan News.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 13:13:45 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dirty Wars, Filthy Hands: 5 Unsavory Ways America Conducts Its Global War on Terror]]></title>
<link>http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2013/05/14/dirty-wars-filthy-hands-5-unsavory-ways-america-conducts-its-global-war-on-terror.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Alternet: The recent revelation that the Central Intelligence Agency has handed tens of millions of dollars over to the offices of the president of Afghanistan should come as no surprise. The CIA has a long history of this sort of activity. And most importantly, it&#8217;s the latest reminder of how America&#8217;s global &#8220;war on terror&#8221; has been forged through backroom deals, cold hard cash and the fostering of corruption.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 16:29:59 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[150 girls poisoned by toxic gas in Afghanistan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[World Bulletin: 150 girls got poisoned by a toxic gas at their high school in Afghanistan&#8217;s northern state of Balkh. The teachers and students of the Kharti Khorasan Girls&#8217; High School in Mazar-i-Sharif were hospitalized after they got poisoned by a toxic gas which was sprayed at their classrooms.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 09:40:32 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kandahar bomb blast kills 10 Afghan civilians]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[BBC News: A roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan has killed at least 10 civilians, including women and children, police say. The vehicle the victims were travelling in hit an improvised explosive device (IED) in Kandahar province. About 12 other people were injured in the blast.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 09:30:17 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Afghanistan accuses Iran of holding 21 laborers]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Associated Press: Afghanistan has accused Iran of holding as many as 21 migrant Afghan workers following a border shooting incident over the weekend and has filed a formal complaint to Tehran, an official said Sunday. According to local accounts, Iranian border guards opened fire on the Afghan laborers on Friday as they tried to cross the boundary illegally looking for work...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 10:57:24 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Iranian forces open fire on Afghans, dozens killed or injured]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Khaama Press: According to local authorities in western Farah province of Afghanistan, dozens of Afghans were killed or injured after Iranian security forces opened fire on a group of Afghans inside the Iranian soil. The incident took place after a group of Afghans illegally entered Iran from Pashmaki bordering region.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 01:32:50 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Inspector General: Officials Trying to Silence Me on Afghanistan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Antiwar.com: In a speech yesterday at the New American Foundation, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John Sopko revealed that he has been under pressure from officials across several departments for publicizing his audits on waste and fraud in the Afghan War.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu,  9 May 2013 02:38:48 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Takhar man accused of killing infant fourth daughter]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[PAN: A man has killed his three-month-old daughter in the Rostakh district of northern Takhar province, a resident claimed on Tuesday. Mohammad Halim, an area dweller, told Pajhwok Afghan News the incident took place late on Tuesday in the Sya Aab area of the district.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed,  8 May 2013 07:22:12 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[4 civilians killed, 5 children injured in Farah bombing]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[PAN: At least four civilians were killed and five others injured during a roadside bombing in the Khak-i-Safid district of western Farah province on Sunday, an official said. The explosion took place in Archi area at around 7am, when a car struck the roadside bomb, the town&#8217;s administrative head, Abdul Khaliq Nawrozi, told Pajhwok Afghan News.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun,  5 May 2013 18:19:06 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Afghanistan&#8217;s Corruption, and America&#8217;s Too]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg: In the unforgiving Afghan landscape, we have learned that you can&#8217;t buy a warlord. You can only rent one. We owe this education to our man in Kabul, President Hamid Karzai. For more than a decade, it has been recently confirmed, U.S. dollars packed into suitcases, backpacks and plastic shopping bags have been delivered every month or so to Karzai&#8217;s office.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu,  2 May 2013 04:44:31 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Man detained for incesting daughter]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[PAN: A man was detained for sexually assaulting his daughter in northern Baghlan province, where a woman&#8217;s a body was also found by the authorities, an official said on Wednesday. The incest took place in Khost district where the accused -- Abdul Alim -- was detained late on Tuesday, the provincial police chief, Brig. Gen. Asadullah Sherzad, told Pajhwok Afghan News.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed,  1 May 2013 16:24:11 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Over 150 Afghan school girls in hospital after suspected poisoning in Kabul]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[RFE/RL: A number of girls appear to have been poisoned at a school in the Afghan capital, Kabul. A teacher at the Sultan Razia High School told RFE/RL&#8217;s Radio Free Afghanistan that students fell ill after smelling some kind of gas when they entered their classrooms on May 1.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed,  1 May 2013 15:26:42 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[International Intervention in Afghanistan Has Led to Heroin Resurgence]]></title>
<link>http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2013/04/29/international-intervention-in-afghanistan-has-led-to-heroin-resurgence.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Truthout: A new United Nations report on the state of opium cultivation in Afghanistan reveals a worsening situation, after more than a decade of US and NATO occupation. It confirms the failure of counternarcotics missions in the country. In 2012, poppy cultivation rose for a third year in a row and now extends over 154,000 hectares, an 18 percent increase over 2011.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:23:43 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[With Bags of Cash to President&#8217;s offices, C.I.A. Seeks Influence in Afghanistan]]></title>
<link>http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2013/04/28/with-bags-of-cash-to-president-s-offices-c-i-a-seeks-influence-in-afghanistan.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The New York Times: For more than a decade, wads of American dollars packed into suitcases, backpacks and, on occasion, plastic shopping bags have been dropped off every month or so at the offices of Afghanistan&#8217;s president &#8212; courtesy of the Central Intelligence Agency. All told, tens of millions of dollars have flowed from the C.I.A. to the office of President Hamid Karzai, according to current and former advisers to the Afghan leader.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 15:31:12 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Summary amputations: Taliban justice in Afghanistan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[BBC News: Two cases of forced amputations in Afghanistan&#8217;s Herat province have served as a grim reminder of Taliban-style justice almost 12 years since the movement was ousted from power. Just over a month ago, Fayz Mohammad and his neighbour Zarin were two ordinary young Afghan men. They held down good jobs as drivers for a local transport company and were happy to be able to feed their families.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 17:07:50 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pentagon Claims 757 Million USD Overbilling by Contractor in Afghanistan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Center for Public Integrity: The principal food supplier to US troops in Afghanistan is embroiled in a costly dispute with the Pentagon that has attracted congressional interest. The Pentagon allowed a private firm providing food and water to U.S. troops in Afghanistan to overbill taxpayers 757 million USD and awarded the company no-bid contract extensions worth more than 4 billion USD over three years...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:42:16 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fiery bus crash blamed on Taliban insurgents kills 45 in Afghanistan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Associated Press: A bus collided on Friday with the wreckage of a truck that had been attacked by Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan, killing 45 people aboard the bus in a fiery crash, officials said. The battered oil tanker had been left in the middle of a narrow road near the border of Kandahar and Helmand provinces for several days after insurgents attacked it. Police considered the area too dangerous to enter, the officials said.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:29:10 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Army paid 5 million USD for garbage incinerators it never used in Afghanistan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Washington Guardian: Talk about burning taxpayer money! The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers spent more than 5 million USD to have a contractor build two garbage incinerators at a forward-operating base in Afghanistan, but then the military never used the equipment because officials closed out the project and released the contractors before the machines actually worked.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:36:59 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Some MPs aiding kidnappers: Police chief]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[PAN: The Kabul crime branch chief, Lt. Gen. Mohammad Zahir, on Wednesday accused a number of parliamentarians of supporting kidnappers and making efforts to release them from prisons. Addressing a press conference in Kabul, Gen Zahir claimed whenever they arrested kidnappers, members of Wolesi Jirga or Meshrano Jirga overtly launched efforts to have them freed.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 04:41:13 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Child soldiers in Afghanistan will make your heart hurt]]></title>
<link>http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2013/04/23/child-soldiers-in-afghanistan-will-make-your-heart-hurt.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[MSN: Well, everyone, this is the way things are now. Did you know that? Were you prepared to see a video of small children firing guns and presumably being indoctrinated to kill other human beings before they've reached adolescence, because that is what the world is coming to now?]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:32:25 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A zoo pays a high price for conflict]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Killid Group: Shah Barat was a zookeeper at the Kabul Zoo when Taleban fighters marched into the city. He did not flee like tens of thousands of people. He stayed on to look after the animals in the zoo. Before the Taleban took over the city in 1996, Kabul Zoo was home to 37 species. There was Marjan, the zoo&#8217;s much-loved lion, an Indian elephant, deer, birds and many other animals.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:19:16 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Taliban cut off hand, foot of two alleged robbers in peaceful Herat province]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[PAN: A Taliban court ordered cutting off a hand and a foot of two men convicted of robbery and cooperating with a security firm in western Herat province, officials said on Saturday. The victims were then taken to a hospital in Torghondai area, a border town of Robat Sangi district, a spokesman for western zone hospitals, Dr. Mohammad Rafique Sherzai, told Pajhwok Afghan News.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 16:13:19 -0500</pubDate>
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