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Afghanistan's tax to GDP ratio today stands above 11 percent - ahead of neighboring Pakistan's dismal 9 percent.
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Rebecca Martin of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "We have a chance now, with the fewest cases in the fewest places," she said, joining officials from the World Health Organization, Gates Foundation and Rotary International to discuss the strategy that will be finalized later this month.
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Nationalists in Kyrgyzstan are threatening to return to the streets to topple another government unless it expropriates the Kumtor goldmine, a treasure they say was sold off too cheaply to foreigners.
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KUMTOR, Kyrgyzstan, April 3- In an impoverished young nation with a habit of overthrowing its rulers, the future now balances on a mountain of gold at the top of the world, where the air is so thin collapsing visitors may be rushed to a pressure chamber for oxygen.
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*Stockman, former chief for Reagan, says deficit requires harsh action. NEW YORK, April 1- Two former U.S. budget chiefs who worked for presidents from opposing political parties said on Monday that the government should reduce military spending, scale back Social Security payments and end decade-old income tax cuts to reduce the federal deficit.
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Afghanistan's tax to GDP ratio today stands above 11 percent - ahead of neighboring Pakistan's dismal 9 percent.
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SEOUL- South Korea will strike back if the North stages any attack on its territory, the new president warned on Monday, as tensions ratcheted higher on the Korean peninsula amid shrill rhetoric from Pyongyang and the U.S. deployment of radar-evading fighters.
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KABUL, March 31- One of Afghanistan's most surprising success stories lies tucked away on a potholed street notorious for suicide bombings and lined with rusting construction equipment. Thanks to tougher enforcement procedures, Afghanistan's tax to GDP ratio today stands above 11 percent- ahead of neighbouring Pakistan's dismal 9 percent.
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KABUL, March 31- One of Afghanistan's most surprising success stories lies tucked away on a potholed street notorious for suicide bombings and lined with rusting construction equipment. Thanks to tougher enforcement procedures, Afghanistan's tax to GDP ratio today stands above 11 percent- ahead of neighbouring Pakistan's dismal 9 percent.
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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel described the reduction from 22 days to two weeks as "good news" during a Pentagon news conference Thursday. Pentagon officials have estimated that at least 10 percent of the department's roughly 800,000 civilian workers will not face furloughs, but they have declined to identify them.
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SEOUL/ WASHINGTON- North Korea put its missile units on standby on Friday to attack U.S. military bases in South Korea and the Pacific, after the United States flew two nuclear-capable stealth bombers over the Korean peninsula in a rare show of force.
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WASHINGTON, March 28- Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Thursday that most of the Pentagon's 800,000 civilian employees would be placed on unpaid leave for only 14 days this year instead of 22 after Congress approved a measure easing pressure on the department's budget.
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ALMATY, March 27- Uzbek President Islam Karimov made his first public appearance on Wednesday since rumours of the strongman leader's poor health first emerged a week ago, according to the presidential press service and a Kazakh official.
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MOSCOW, March 27- Russia wants play a role in keeping Afghanistan stable after the withdrawal of most NATO combat troops by maintaining government military hardware on Afghan soil, a senior military official said on Wednesday.
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HONG KONG, March 27- These are some of the leading stories in Hong Kong newspapers on Wednesday. --China National Materials Co Ltd will increase its capital expenditure by 29 percent to 11.23 billion yuan this year, and has set aside 500 million yuan to acquire mostly foreign cement equipment companies, said chief financial officer Yu Kaijun.
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SEOUL- North Korea repeated threats to target U.S. military bases on Tuesday as Washington and its allies tightened economic sanctions against the isolated country by targeting Pyongyang's main foreign exchange bank with new measures.
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This is the peak season for producing drugs here, and in Myanmar's nascent era of democratic change, the haul has only increased. Opium, its derivative heroin and methamphetamines are surging across Myanmar's borders in quantities that the United Nations and police in neighboring countries say are the highest levels in years.
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SANAA, March 22- For Fayez al-Absi, Yemen's most important political gathering in 50 years will never manage to end the country's political turmoil, as many of the powerbrokers participating are the cause of the very problems they are meant to solve.
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WASHINGTON, March 22- U.S. lawmakers are reconsidering a 1990 law that makes the State Department accept the lowest bids for contracts to provide private security at most U.S. diplomatic posts, a requirement that can lead to the hiring of thousands of guards based on how cheap they are rather than their quality.
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*Sierra Nevada, Embraer building 20 planes for Afghanistan. WASHINGTON, March 21- Beechcraft Corp said on Thursday it was suing the U.S. Air Force to halt work on a contested aircraft contract won by Brazilian planemaker Embraer and its U.S. partner while federal auditors review Beechcraft's protest against the contract.
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WASHINGTON, March 21- The seven young Marines killed in a Nevada mortar accident this week were from towns scattered across the United States and included a would-be chef and former athletes, with all but one veterans of the Afghanistan war. All those killed were members of the 9th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, based at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.