Tired of watching their young people descend into drug addiction, village elders in a remote Afghan region are taking action to get them to kick the habit -- or get kicked out of town. Heroin addicts in a corner of eastern Ghazni province are being set deadlines to quit after tribal elders decided the only way to deal with the worsening ...

Afghanistan's Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) said Thursday it had ordered that ballots from polling stations in two provinces be invalidated because of "clear and convincing evidence of fraud". "In the course of its investigations, the ECC has found clear and convincing evidence of fraud" in a number of polling stations in the southeastern provinces Paktika and Ghazni, it said ...