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Opium

The tea thief

Maverick Life

The tea thief

By Don Pinnock

Afghanistan: What the conflict means for the global heroin trade

Magazine

Afghanistan: What the conflict means for the global heroin trade

By Jonathan Goodhand

Analysis: Long live foreign aid – whether we like it or not

Africa

Analysis: Long live foreign aid – whether we like it or not

By Simon Allison

How American junkies fund the Taliban (and other stories from the other side of the war on terror)

Business Maverick

How American junkies fund the Taliban (and other stories from the other side of the war on terror)

By Richard Poplak

22 March: Sarkozy thrashed by Socialists in local French elections

Politics

22 March: Sarkozy thrashed by Socialists in local French elections

By Branko Brkic