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Taliban Release Detained Elderly British Couple
An elderly British couple detained in Afghanistan for almost eight months were released on Friday, the Taliban authorities said, after pressure built to free the pair due to fears over their health.
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Afghan Couple Arrested With Over 100 Kg Heroin Worth Rs 860 Crore In Delhi
The police have arrested an Afghan couple and recovered over 100 kilograms of heroin worth Rs 860 crore from their possession, officials said on Saturday.
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Afghan Hostage Says Ex-Husband's Abuse After Release "Just Like Captors"
A couple who split after a five-year hostage ordeal in Afghanistan faced each other in a Canadian court Wednesday at the husband's trial for sexually assaulting his wife.
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Afghan Couple Arrested For Entering Delhi Airport With 'Edited' Ticket
An Afghan couple was arrested on Tuesday on the charge of gaining entry to the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi by showing an 'edited' ticket, an official said.
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Canada Calls For Release Of Kidnapped Couple In Afghanistan
Officials in Canada called for the unconditional release of a Canadian man and his American wife on Monday after a new video appeared to show them begging their governments to intervene on their behalf with their Afghan captors.
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US Evaluating Taliban Video Of Captive Couple In Afghanistan
The State Department said on Tuesday it is evaluating a video released by the Afghan Taliban showing a Canadian man and his American wife warning that their Afghan captors will kill them and their children unless the Kabul government ends its executions of Taliban prisoners.
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Cash-Strapped Young Afghans Turn to Low-Cost Mass Weddings
The crowd bursts into applause as a hundred couples enter the hall, hand in hand, grooms in simple black suits and brides in modest white dresses, red flowers in hand.
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Kidnapped Canadian Couple in Afghanistan Video Plea Say They're Parents
The married couple with a taste for exotic travel set out for Central Asia in the summer of 2012, moving as tourists through a region not normally visited by Westerners.
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Afghan 'lovers' found beheaded
A young couple in conservative southern Afghanistan have been found beheaded, apparently killed for having a love affair outside of marriage, officials said today.
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Pak Taliban admit to holding Shahbaz Taseer for first time
A reporter for The New York Times, David Rohde, who was captured in Afghanistan, fled captivity in North Waziristan with an Afghan colleague in 2009, but otherwise successful escapes are rare. Others currently in captivity include Mr Khan, who went missing in September 2010; Warren Weinstein, an American consultant whose kidnapping has been claimed...
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Gun attack at Kabul 'CIA compound': officials
A compound in Kabul used by the US's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) came under attack, officials said, the latest in a series of assaults in the Afghan capital. Afghan interior ministry spokesman Siddiq Siddiqui said police had heard "a couple of minutes" of gunfire from inside the Ariana Hotel compound at around 1645 GMT.
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Taliban Release Detained Elderly British Couple
An elderly British couple detained in Afghanistan for almost eight months were released on Friday, the Taliban authorities said, after pressure built to free the pair due to fears over their health.
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Afghan Couple Arrested With Over 100 Kg Heroin Worth Rs 860 Crore In Delhi
The police have arrested an Afghan couple and recovered over 100 kilograms of heroin worth Rs 860 crore from their possession, officials said on Saturday.
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Afghan Hostage Says Ex-Husband's Abuse After Release "Just Like Captors"
A couple who split after a five-year hostage ordeal in Afghanistan faced each other in a Canadian court Wednesday at the husband's trial for sexually assaulting his wife.
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Afghan Couple Arrested For Entering Delhi Airport With 'Edited' Ticket
An Afghan couple was arrested on Tuesday on the charge of gaining entry to the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi by showing an 'edited' ticket, an official said.
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Canada Calls For Release Of Kidnapped Couple In Afghanistan
Officials in Canada called for the unconditional release of a Canadian man and his American wife on Monday after a new video appeared to show them begging their governments to intervene on their behalf with their Afghan captors.
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US Evaluating Taliban Video Of Captive Couple In Afghanistan
The State Department said on Tuesday it is evaluating a video released by the Afghan Taliban showing a Canadian man and his American wife warning that their Afghan captors will kill them and their children unless the Kabul government ends its executions of Taliban prisoners.
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Cash-Strapped Young Afghans Turn to Low-Cost Mass Weddings
The crowd bursts into applause as a hundred couples enter the hall, hand in hand, grooms in simple black suits and brides in modest white dresses, red flowers in hand.
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Kidnapped Canadian Couple in Afghanistan Video Plea Say They're Parents
The married couple with a taste for exotic travel set out for Central Asia in the summer of 2012, moving as tourists through a region not normally visited by Westerners.
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Afghan 'lovers' found beheaded
A young couple in conservative southern Afghanistan have been found beheaded, apparently killed for having a love affair outside of marriage, officials said today.
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Pak Taliban admit to holding Shahbaz Taseer for first time
A reporter for The New York Times, David Rohde, who was captured in Afghanistan, fled captivity in North Waziristan with an Afghan colleague in 2009, but otherwise successful escapes are rare. Others currently in captivity include Mr Khan, who went missing in September 2010; Warren Weinstein, an American consultant whose kidnapping has been claimed...
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Gun attack at Kabul 'CIA compound': officials
A compound in Kabul used by the US's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) came under attack, officials said, the latest in a series of assaults in the Afghan capital. Afghan interior ministry spokesman Siddiq Siddiqui said police had heard "a couple of minutes" of gunfire from inside the Ariana Hotel compound at around 1645 GMT.
