UN: Afghan opium production down Opium production has dropped significantly in Afghanistan, in large part because of a plant infection in the country’s war-torn south, a U.N. report said on Thursday. “This is good news but there is no room for false optimism; the market may again become lucrative for poppy-crop growers so we have […]
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44 dead in China mine blast: state media
At least 44 miners have died and several dozen others were injured by a mine blast Sunday in northern China’s Shanxi province, state-run media said. “We expressed our deepest condolences to the survivors of the noncombatants who were killed during this operation,” said Brig. Gen.