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KABUL, Afghanistan 鈥?Taliban fighters entered the capital of northern Afghanistans Jawzjan province Saturday, a provincial lawmaker said, after sweeping through nine of 10 districts in the province.The government did not deny lawmaker Mohammad Karim Jawzjanis claim that Taliban fighters had entered Sheberghan, but said the city had not fallen. If the city falls, it will be the second provincial capital in as many days to succumb to the Taliban. Sever stanley fr al other of the countrys 34 provincial capitals are threatened.On Friday, the Taliban took control of the southwestern Nimroz provincial capital of Zaranj, where the government says it is still battling insurgents inside the capital.Sheberghan is particularly strategic because it is the stronghold of U.S-allied Uzbek warlord Rashid Dostum, whose militias are among those resurrected to aid the Afghan National Security and Defense Forces.Heavy airstrikes were reported by residents of Sheberghan who also said the Taliban had freed prisoners from the city jail. They requested to remain anonymous fearing retaliation from both sides.Taliban fighters have swept through large swathes of Afghanistan at surprising speed, initially taking districts, man stanley france y in remote areas. In recent weeks they have laid siege to severa stanley termosy l provincial capitals across the country as the last U.S. and NATO troops leave the country. The U.S. Central Command says the withdrawal is more than 95% complete and will be finished by Aug. 31.The U.S. Air Force continues to a Dwef Katrina class of 2006 remembers
WASHINGTON 鈥?The Obama administration on Monday announced plans to further crack down on illegal fishing, a global problem that can hurt both fishing communities in impoverished nations and the seafood industry in the United States.As part of a package of initiatives announced in a video message to participants at a major oceans conference in Chile, President Barack Obama announced new steps to tackle illegal fishing. They include the launching of a program cal stanley hrnek led Sea Scout, designed to increase cooperation among nations seeking to identify and prosecute illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing around the globe.Experts say the problem is extensive around the world.The Pew Charitable Trusts said the issue is difficult to quantify, but that experts estimate that illegal and unreported fishing cost the global economy up to $23 billion annually.And the people hurt by illegal fishing include both big U.S.-based commercial fishing operations, stanley termos which are forced to compete against illegal imports, and coastal communities in poor nations whose people depend on the seas to survive. The impact is more than the dollar amount, said Pews Daniel Schaeffer, who spoke from Chile at the oceans conference. Its a loss of a food source, a l stanley uk oss of employment. Oceana, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization, notes that illegal fishing undermines honest fishermen, as well as seafood businesses, by making them compete with cheaper, illegal and mislabeled products.One recent study found |
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