For more than 140 years, from the late 1700s to the 1930s, the family-owned Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary served customers with an amazing assortment of medicines. When the shop closed, the buildings new owner kept it just the way it was, and turned

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Agriculture Report - Opium poppy growing has increased in Afghanistan 农业报道 - 阿富汗鸦片种植连年增加 From VOA Learning English, this is the Agriculture Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。 Afghan farmers have ano

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By Robert Raffaele Washington 31 August 2007 Afghan poppies Afghan President Hamid Karzai is blaming the international community for not doing more to stop poppy production in his country. Mr. Karzai's criticism follows the release this week of a Uni

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East, they all ready participate in producing some of the most popular pain killer substances around, bear and wine. Now scientists analyze the east can also make some of the most powerful energizes. morphine.They work in the general natural chemical

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By Robert Raffaele Washington 03 August 2007 U.S. President George W. Bush is scheduled to meet Afghan President Hamid Karzai Sunday August 5-6 at Camp David, the presidential retreat outside Washington. It will be Mr. Karzai's first visit to Camp D

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For the second time in a month American troops in eastern Afghanistan have been fired on by a local policeman. VOA Correspondent Steve Herman reports from Kabul that in this latest incident a U.S. soldier was killed. U.S. military and provincial off

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By Sean Maroney Kabul 19 November 2009 Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai (L) takes the presidential oath besides Afghanistan's Chief Justice Abdul Salam Azimi during his inauguration at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, 19 Nov 2009 Afghan Preside

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: And now we have an update on the fight against the heroin supply. Heroin is made from poppies. Some are grown in Mexico. And the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration recently criticized Mexico's effort to destroy them. The Mexican

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Soon after the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, the U.S. and its NATO allies went to war in Afghanistan to drive the Taliban from power and root out al-Qaida terrorists hiding there. That war is still going strong. 在美国

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The U.S. military in Afghanistan launched a major offensive in Taliban-controlled parts of southern Afghanistan Thursday, the first such operation under U.S. President Barack Obama's revamped strategy to defeat an increasingly violent Taliban insurge

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A powerful suicide bomb in Afghanistan has killed the country's deputy chief of the national spy agency and 22 others. Taliban insurgents have claimed responsibility for the deadly attack. The violence comes as the United Nations has reported a signi

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By David Gollust State Department 17 September 2007 A White House report says Burma and Venezuela failed during the past year to make substantial efforts to curb drug trafficking or cooperate with the United States on the issue. Venezuela and Burma w

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By Robert Raffaele Washington, DC 15 February 2008 Change in Afghanistan is not coming fast enough for many U.S. lawmakers. Frustration is growing in Congress about Afghanistan's booming opium trade, the resurgence of the Taliban and what some say is

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By Scott Bobb Bangkok 16 March 2006 The government of Laos is opening the eighth congress its Communist Party, which has led the country since the mid-1970s. Organizers say this congress will enact ma

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By Jennifer Glasse London 09 November 2009 Red paper poppies are worn in recognition of Armistice Day Every year about this time, millions of people in Britain, wear red paper poppies in recognition of Armistice Day and in support of their country's

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The governor of the province where most of Afghanistan's opium is produced is praising NATO forces for carrying out a well-coordinated attack against Taliban and foreign fighters that, he says, for the first time, avoided any civilian casualties. VO

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By Phil Mercer Sydney 17 December 2007 Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has warned that NATO's anti-Taliban tactics in Afghanistan are not working. The newly elected leader said it is critical that security in the troubled country be stabilized.

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 01 March 2007 Africa is increasingly being used as a conduit to traffic cocaine, with increasing numbers of couriers apprehended and more bulk cocaine seized, according to the International Narcotics Control Board. The Vien

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By Barry Newhouse Islamabad 03 March 2008 Afghanistan's top intelligence officer is rejecting a U.S. estimate that only 30 percent of the country is under the control of the central government in Kabul. VOA's Barry Newhouse reports from Islamabad tha

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The U.S. military in Afghanistan launched a major offensive in Taliban-controlled parts of southern Afghanistan Thursday, the first such operation under U.S. President Barack Obama's revamped strategy to defeat an increasingly violent Taliban insurg

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