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Kabul Bids Farewell to Powerful Friend

Departing United States ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad has played a major role in formation of the current government.

Herat Tries to Quit Smoking

Western province becomes first to impose ban on smoking in government offices, but so far officials failing to enforce the law.

Letter from Heart

To a visitor from Kabul, the western city of Herat seems like paradise.

Maths Students Shine Abroad

Four Afghan students win top prizes in international competition and change some minds in the process.

Kabul Calling

They may look out of place, but 300 new telephone booths are giving the capital's poorer residents a chance to contact relatives cheaply.

The Cave-Dwellers of Bamian

Parliament and politics mean little to the people forced to live in caves beside the remains of Bamian's giant Buddhas.

Chasing the Million-Dollar Prize

US wanted adverts for Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar come up against Afghan conspiracy theories.

Rising TV Station Stirs Controversy

Ground-breaking television channel attracts both praise and threats.

Teaching Women to Campaign

For Afghan women to get out of the home and onto the hustings takes some encouragement and some new-found courage.

Global Voices: Middle East & North Africa

The sister of Aurelio Cruz López holds a sign used in the search for the young man, who disappeared along the U.S.-Mexico border. © Andrea Godínez

Araceli cries while talking about her brother who disappeared along the border and whose remains were repatriated. © Andrea Godínez

Cecilia Delgado Grijalva is a buscadora (name adopted by mothers and relatives of missing persons who are devoted to finding the remains of their loves ones) and founder of Buscadoras por la Paz (Searchers for Peace), in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. © Andrea Godínez

A search for family members gone missing in Sonora, Mexico. © Andrea Godínez

The portion of Evergreen Cemetery in Tucson, Arizona where deceased migrants whose remains are not claimed by their families are buried. © © Andrea Godínez

Gene Hernández, forensic examiner at the Pima County morgue, inside the trailer that holds the remains of migrants who perished along the border. © Andrea Godínez

Gene Hernández, a forensic medical investigator in Pima County, holds the skull of a deceased migrant. © Andrea Godínez

Román Coc holds photos of his daughter Laura, who disappeared in the Arizona desert 13 years ago. © Andrea Godínez

A photograph shows Laura Coc (far right), a young woman from Guatemala, posing during a beauty pageant. © Andrea Godínez

There are no statistics on cases of femicide - the killing of women on the grounds of hatred of women, with the acquiescence of the state - in Uzbekistan.

Artwork by Mays Al-Saray.

'Hope of Mother', an organization led by Lisbeth Surita, has registered 48 cases of Venezuelans missing in the border regions.

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