Word: afghanistan
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People who live inside the world's many war zones, from Afghanistan to Rwanda, may never have heard of New York or Paris, but they are likely to know of a town in northern India called Jaipur. Jaipur is famous in strife-torn areas as the birthplace of an extraordinary prosthesis, or artificial limb, known as the Jaipur foot, that has revolutionized life for millions of land-mine amputees...
...pressure on other major states to get aboard. Now it is unlikely that Russia, China, Vietnam, India, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Israel and others will sign on. Nor will North or South Korea. But most of the civilian casualties are suffered in such war-torn states as Cambodia, Angola, Afghanistan, Namibia and Mozambique, where millions of abandoned mines lie in wait. Those countries are expected to sign...
FAIRFAX, Va: Mir Aimal Kansi, the Pakistani native accused of killing two CIA employees in 1993, was flown to the United States and taken into custody by U.S. officials last night. Kansi, who was captured over the weekend with the help of several Afghanis near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, was immediately flown by helicopter to the Fairfax County jail to await arraignment, expected to take place today. He faces charges on two counts of capital murder, three counts of assault and one count of illegal possession of a weapon. If convicted he could face the death penalty. Kansi allegedly killed...
...kind of caught me at a bad time, Jeffrey," I said. "I just sent the IRS a check as my contribution toward one of those fancy new F-22 jet fighters that's going to keep us technologically way ahead of potential enemies like Iraq and Afghanistan, at least until we start selling them to Iraq and Afghanistan...
...YORK CITY: The bloody aftermath of the Taliban coup in Afghanistan, AIDS and the devastating damage done to world fishing supplies by ecological problems were among the topics that inspired Pulitzer Prize-winning stories this year. The big winner in the 81st annual Pulitzer Prize competition is the Times-Picayune of New Orleans, which won the public service award and the Pulitzer gold medal for its series on threats to the world's fish supply. The Times-Picayune?s Walt Handelsman added another award for editorial cartooning. Among other top winners of the awards announced by Columbia University today...