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KABUL (Reuters) – A senior Afghan diplomat kidnapped by gunmen two years ago in Pakistan has been freed and returned to Afghanistan, government officials said on Sunday.
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DHAKA (Reuters) -Violence broke out in Bangladesh at the weekend after the government evicted opposition leader Begum Khaleda Zia from her home, while a general strike called for by the opposition was partially observed.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai wants the U.S. military to scale back the visibility and intensity of its operations in Afghanistan and end night raids that he said incited people to join the Taliban insurgency, The Washington Post reported on Saturday.
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DHAKA (Reuters) – A country-wide day-long general strike called by the main opposition party began to take hold across Bangladesh on Sunday, following overnight violence that killed at least three people and left around 100 injured.
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DHAKA, Nov 13 (Reuters) – At least three people were killed and five, including a lawmaker of the ruling party, injured in a suicide bomb attack in Bangladesh on Saturday, police said.
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DHAKA (Reuters) – Police in Bangladesh fired tear gas and rubber bullets on Saturday to clear demonstrators trying to prevent authorities from evicting the leader of the opposition from the house where she has lived for 40 years.
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JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Taliban insurgents attacked the main airport and a foreign military base at Jalalabad in Afghanistan’s east on Saturday, Reuters witnesses and police said, with at least three of the attackers killed.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s reluctance to mount another major offensive against the Taliban may be due to its fear of equally deadly reprisals by the militants, which erode the government’s crediblity among its people, analysts say.
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KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan opium prices are soaring, prompting fear that farmers will switch to planting poppies and reverse gains in cutting output, the head of the United Nations’ Afghanistan narcotics office said.
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KABUL (Reuters) – A NATO convoy was attacked near the parliament building in the Afghan capital on Friday, police and the coalition said, the first attack in Kabul in three months months after security was increased.
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