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Saturday, November 22 2008

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UK cash to wean farmers off opium trade

By Melissa Kite

Farmers in Afghanistan are to be given millions of pounds of European taxpayers' money to persuade them to stop growing poppy crops for heroin.

Last-minute seat switch saved life of stewardess

By Fiona Govan and Ed Owen

THE sole crew member to survive last week's Madrid air disaster has explained how her life was saved by a last-minute decision to switch her seat from the back of the plane to the front.

Russia stays at key port despite pullback

By Niko Mchedlishvili

RUSSIA said yesterday that it would continue to patrol Georgia's main Black Sea port, defying Western demands for a complete pullback to positions held before this month's outbreak of fighting over a Georgian rebel region.

Cricket star Khan warns of civil war in Pakistan

By NICK MEO in Islamabad

PAKISTAN faces months of crisis under its new civilian leaders and is in danger of collapsing into civil war and anarchy, Imran Khan has warned.

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