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The group’s ban on poppy farming has reportedly slashed Afghanistan’s opioid production by 80% in one year
The Taliban has reportedly accomplished in one year what America’s “war on drugs” failed to pull off in five decades: eliminating the vast majority of Afghanistan’s opium output.
Since the Taliban banned poppy farming nationwide in April 2022,
Eastern societies are best-prepared to resist neoliberalism, Asma Assad told RT
Syria’s First Lady Asma Assad visited Moscow this week, as her eldest son, Hafez, graduated from the Moscow State University (MSU). Hafez received a masters diploma with honors at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, with Asma attending the ceremony.
During her visit,
The report, supposedly commissioned by Congress last year, was released the same day as similar comments from the EC
The US Office of Science and Technology Policy has outlined what a geonengineering program in the US might look like in a report published Friday. The researchers stressed that their work was not meant as an endorsement of such technologies,
The Dutch monarch, Willem-Alexander, said that the exploitation of people in colonial times was “crime against humanity”
King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands has marked the 160th anniversary of his country’s official abolition of slavery by issuing an historic apology for Dutch involvement in the trade.
“On this day we remember the Dutch history of slavery,” Willem-Alexander told a crowd on Saturday at the national slavery monument in Amsterdam.
The gunman has killed one person and wounded several in the city of Sisak, official said
A Kalashnikov-armed gunman opened fire in Sisak, a town 60 kilometers from Croatia’s capital Zagreb, on Saturday evening, killing at least one person and wounding several others, police said. The suspect is at large.
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New Jersey enrollment figures reveal a 4,000% jump in gender-non-conforming children since 2019
The number of students in New Jersey public schools who openly identify as “non-binary” has gone up by a staggering 4,000% in the past four years, according to enrollment data published by the state’s Department of Education.
The report,
The move comes amid a NATO drive to increase their military strength on the bloc’s ‘eastern flank’
Germany’s defense minister Boris Pistorius said on Monday that Berlin is to station 4,000 troops to Lithuania, a fellow NATO member, as the bloc seeks to fortify its ranks around Russia’s exclave, Kaliningrad.
“Germany is ready to permanently station a robust brigade in Lithuania,” Pistorius said on Monday during a visit to the country’s capital,
Failure to moderate “misinformation” could hit social media giants in their pockets under a government proposal in Canberra
Social media companies like Twitter and Facebook could be hit with substantial fines under new draft legislation from the Australian government to crack down on the spread of “misinformation” and fake news on their platforms,
The 2003 war was not a crime because President George W. Bush was never charged, John Kerry has insisted
The US-led invasion of Iraq was completely different to the current Ukraine conflict, Washington’s special envoy for climate change John Kerry has told French TV channel LCI.
He appeared on LCI’s Sunday evening show hosted by Darius Rochebin,
Copenhagen will also discuss donating some of its fleet of the fighter jets to Kiev
Denmark’s acting defense minister Troels Lund Poulsen said on Monday that the NATO country had begun training Ukrainian pilots to operate F-16 fighter jets, and that discussions are taking place in Copenhagen about donating some of its fleet of military aircraft to Kiev.
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