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courant.com | Coca-Cola Plant Opens In Kabul by admin in Business visit site

A sniper on the gleaming Coca-Cola factory's roof peers through his gun sight over Kabul's bullet-pocked suburbs, searching for any hint of a terrorist threat.

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Afghanistan: thousands displaced in Kandahar fighting by admin in Politics visit site

A Canadian soldier was killed and dozens wounded, five seriously, when two US fighter jets mistakenly strafed them Sept. 4 at a battlefront in Kandahar. (CanWest News Service, Sept. 5) If we were to engage in conspiracy theory, we could hypothesize that this wasn't really "friendly fire," but intentional retaliation for perceived Canadian national insubordination to US global leadership.

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Afghan returnees hope for sweet returns from buzzing business by admin in Business visit site

If there's one area in Afghanistan's patriarchal society where females are valued highly, it is beekeeping. That seems apt considering that the female bee dominates the hive – a fact which may have surprised some 30 male students listening intently to a recent lecture by agronomist Abdullah Ahad Qarashi in this eastern district.

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Musharraf due in Kabul for talks by admin in Politics visit site

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf will hold talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on his two-day visit to Afghanistan beginning on Wednesday.