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VIENNA (Reuters) -The total area of land in Afghanistan on which opium poppy is grown shrank 20% this year, according to a U.N. estimate issued on Thursday, a further drop since farming of the raw ...

The U.N. food agency warned Afghanistan faces a dry and unusually warm winter through February, with below-average rainfall ...