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(CNN) -- President Obama stepped into office with big approval ratings met with high expectations as he faces a deteriorating economic situation, an unpopular war in Iraq and the Middle East conflict.

The economy has been the main focus of the first week of President Obama's presidency.

In his first week, Obama has focused on the economy, but he's also addressed other campaign promises.

Bill Schneider, CNN's senior political analyst, describes Obama's first week as a "neat balancing act."

As Obama signs executive orders signaling a clear change of direction, he's also working hard to get bipartisan support for his economic stimulus, Schneider said.

"Mr. Obama doesn't have to do that. He could get a stimulus bill passed almost entirely with Democratic votes. But Obama doesn't want to be yet another president who divides the country," he said.

The president has been working the phones with his party and made an unusual trip to Capitol Hill to meet with the opposing party to rally support for his $825 billion economic aid package.

Following a meeting Tuesday with GOP congressman, Obama said he respects the "legitimate philosophical differences" between Democrats and Republicans on how to stimulate the economy.

"I don't expect 100 percent agreement," he said. "But I hope we can put politics aside."  Watch more on Obama's economic push Â»

Throughout the election season, Obama campaigned on his plan to restore economic equilibrium, and in his first public remarks after winning the election, he vowed to "confront this economic crisis head-on."

Obama faces his first test with Congress on Wednesday when the House of Representatives votes on his economic recovery plan. The president has said he hopes to have the plan passed by Congress and on his desk for signing by mid-February.

Obama also has wasted no time in putting his military and diplomatic agendas into action.

In his first week, he already promised to send as many as 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan to boost the U.S. presence on the ground and increase development and reconstruction assistance.

Seeking to demonstrate the Obama administration's early commitment to the country, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met last week with Afghan women legal professionals who were in Washington on a State Department training program on justice reform in Afghanistan.

Obama also has pledged to crack down on militants in neighboring Pakistan.

During the campaign season, Obama received a lot of criticism for saying that if it were necessary to root out terrorists, he would send U.S. forces into Pakistan without the country's approval.

The president has called Afghanistan and Pakistan the "central front in our enduring struggle against terrorism and extremism," and Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday that missile strikes in Pakistan will continue to root out al Qaeda members.

"Let me just say, both President Bush and President Obama have made clear that we will go after al Qaeda wherever al Qaeda is. And we will continue to pursue this," Gates said.

As Obama seeks to stabilize the region, his administration has been advocating multilateralism and stressing "smart power" diplomacy by using all the tools of foreign policy available.

Obama dispatched newly appointed Middle East envoy George Mitchell to the region and tapped diplomatic heavyweight Richard Holbrooke as his special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Obama also gave his first formal interview as president to Al-Arabiya, an Arab news channel, sending a message to the region that he wants a dialogue.

"My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy," Obama told the Dubai-based satellite television network. "We sometimes make mistakes. We have not been perfect."  Watch how Obama is reaching out to Muslims Â»

During his run for the White House, Obama pledged to improve ties with the Muslim world, draw down U.S. troops in Iraq and close the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Two days after his inauguration, Obama issued an executive order to close the camp within a year. Another order formally bans torture by requiring that the Army Field Manual be used as the guide for terrorism interrogations, essentially ending the Bush administration's CIA program of "enhanced interrogation" methods.

Guantanamo Bay and reports of torture there were huge points of contention for the Bush administration and were widely considered to have damaged the reputation of the United States.

In another reversal of his predecessor, Obama struck down a rule that prohibited U.S. money from funding international family-planning clinics that promote abortion or provide counseling or referrals about abortion services.

In a statement, Obama said that family planning aid has been used as a "political wedge issue," adding that he had "no desire to continue this stale and fruitless debate."

As Obama moves into the second week of his presidency, polls show that most Americans approve of the way he is handling his job so far.

Former President Carter said he thinks Obama is "doing just great."

"I was particularly gratified that he carried out his promise, which didn't surprise me, that he would start working on the Middle East peace process the first time he was in office and not wait until the last year he was in office," Carter said on CNN's "Larry King Live."

Carter said he has confidence in Obama on economic issues, but he cautioned that the expectations for the new president are too high.

"I think a lot of the expenditures that will come as rapidly as possible might not occur until maybe 18 months from now -- some earlier. So we're going to have to be patient," he said.

President Bush also won praise during the first week of his first term for staying on message. He built his first week around education and received positive reviews in the media during his honeymoon period.

Bush's predecessor, however, was not met with such a warm welcome.

President Clinton's showdown with Congress over the question of gays in the military and the withdrawal of his attorney general nominee overshadowed early efforts to move ahead with his agenda.

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Mexico City, Mexico (CNN) -- A law allowing same-sex weddings took effect Thursday in Mexico City, one day after the second same-sex marriage was performed in Argentina.

The Mexican measure also allows same-sex couples to adopt children.

Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard has said officials will be prepared to implement the new city law.

The Mexican Institute for Sexology, a private educational institution founded in 1979, held a workshop last month for the 60 Civil Registry judges who will perform the weddings, said Juan Luis Alvarez-Gayou, the institute's founder and director. Workshops are being held this week for 120 civil court judges who may have to rule on domestic issues after the weddings, Alvarez-Gayou said.

The Catholic Church has been opposed to the law, but officials have accepted the measure, the institute director said.

"We haven't had any problems with the judges," Alvarez-Gayou said.

The Mexico City law comes amid the beginning of wider acceptance for same-sex unions in Latin America.

In Argentina, Damian Bernath and Jorge Salazar were married Wednesday in a civil ceremony in the nation's capital, Buenos Aires, the official Telam news agency reported. Judicial measures had prevented gay marriage in Buenos Aires, but a judge issued a ruling last week allowing the two men to marry.

It was the second same-sex marriage in Argentina. The previous wedding took place in Tierra del Fuego after two men were denied a permit in Buenos Aires.

In that case, a Buenos Aires court had ruled that a ban on same-sex marriage was illegal and ordered the proper authorities to grant the couple a marriage license if they applied for one. On the eve of their December 1 wedding, however, another court filed an injunction, halting the nuptials.

In many Latin American jurisdictions, the issue of same-sex marriage is decided on the local and state level.

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MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- Coordinated attacks in at least eight Mexican cities killed three federal police officers and two soldiers Saturday in what officials are calling an unprecedented onslaught by drug gangs.

Attacks occurred after arrest of Arnoldo Rueda Medina, a high-ranking member of La Familia Michoacana.

Another 18 federal officers were wounded, the state-run Notimex news agency reported, citing federal police official Rodolfo Cruz Lopez.

The attacks were in retribution for the capture early Saturday of Arnoldo Rueda Medina, a high-ranking member of the drug cartel known as La Familia Michoacana (The Michoacan Family), Notimex reported.

Rueda is considered second in command to the group's two top leaders, Nazario "El Chayo" Moreno GonzÃ¡lez and JosÃ© " El Chango" de JesÃºs MÃ©ndez Vargas, acting as a "right arm" to Moreno, the secretary of public security said Saturday in a statement.

Among other allegations, he was arrested for his role in designing the hierarchy of the organization, the production of synthetic drugs and movement of marijuana and cocaine to the United States, said Mexico's secretary of public security. Rueda was arrested along with a 17-year-old male who worked for him.

Following his arrest Saturday morning in Morelia, Michoacan, men armed with high-powered rifles and grenades attacked the police station where he was being held, the Secretary of Public Security said.

After failing to win his freedom, members of the group launched attacks in the cities of Morelia, Zitacuaro, Zamora, Lazaro Cardenas, Apatzingan, La Piedad and Huetamo in Michoacan state, Notimex news said, citing federal police.

The three officers were killed in Zitacuaro, police official Eduardo Moran told CNN en EspaÃ±ol, while six police officers were reported wounded in Morelia.

Two soldiers were killed in Zamora, shot by men in a passing car as they walked to their headquarters. The Secretary of Public Security told the newspaper Cambio de Michoacan that 25 spent shells from an R-15 rifle and 17 from an AK-47 were found at the scene.

Michoacan is in west-central Mexico, on the Pacific coast.

Another rifle and grenade attack took place near Acapulco in Guerrero state, which borders Michoacan, but no one was injured.

Saturday's attacks came just days after a drug gang in Tijuana declared they were at war with police, threatening to kill five officers every week until Police Chief Julian Leyzaola resigns.

The threat was made in a note found on the windshield of a slain officer's car, news reports said.

At least three Tijuana officers have been killed since Monday, reports said. Leyzaola, a former army colonel, replaced a police chief removed from office in December after receiving numerous threats.

"Leyzaola has become the poster boy for honest police work, which has put the drug gangs on notice," Vicente Calderon, a reporter for the Tijuana Press news agency, told CNN affiliate KUSI.

"They believe he is serious, that he means business and is trying to re-establish the rule of law that has been affecting the city and whole state for many years since organized crime established themselves in Baja [California]."

Tijuana, the westernmost city in Mexico, is across the border from San Diego, California. Sixteen police officers have died there in 2009, and officers are now patrolling the city in groups of six, KUSI reported.

CNN's Emanuella Grinberg and Monica Trevino contributed to this report.

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(CNN)  -- The French navy on Wednesday captured 11 suspected pirates off the coast of Kenya, Franc'e mnistry of defense announced, while other pirates who had held a Greek vessel for nearly a month let it go.

Pirates attacked The Liberty Sun, a U.S.-flagged  cargo ship, but were unable to board.

The navy tracked the pirates overnight after they attacked a ship called the Safmarine Asia, then seized them at dawn Wednesday morning, the ministry said in a statement.

The Greek-flagged Titan cargo ship was carrying a load of iron to South Korea when pirates seized it. Twenty-four crew members were on board -- 17 Filipinos, three Greeks, three Romanians and a Ukrainian. They are in good health, said Tilemahos Gasteratos, spokesman for the Greek Merchant Marine Ministry.

The European Union, NATO and the United States have been patrolling the region since an upsurge in piracy off the coast of Somalia began last year.

U.S. snipers on Sunday killed three pirates holding hostage a U.S. merchant ship captain. Richard Phillips was held in a lifeboat for five days after his ship, the Maersk Alabama, was attacked last week. The freed Maersk crew members are expected to return to the United States on Wednesday evening.

Pirates in Somalia vowed revenge. Pirates said an attack Tuesday on another U.S.-flagged merchant ship, the Liberty Sun, was in response to the killing of Phillips' captors.

"It was a revenge," Hassan Mohamud told a Somali journalist. "The U.S. ship escaped by a matter of chance."

"We sent out 14 boats full of well-armed men and we are looking for vessels of U.S. and French nationals," said Mohamud. He is a pirate leader based Gara'ad in Puntland, a semi-autonomous Somali region with a long coastline along the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden.

"The U.S. and French governments should know this because they started the aggression on us," he said.

Other pirates in the region have also vowed revenge.

Two days before Phillips was rescued, the French military freed four hostages, including a child, who had been held by pirates for nearly a week on a yacht off Somalia's coast. In that operation, a hostage and two pirates were killed, the French Defense Ministry said. Three pirates were captured.

Separately, a court in Puntland sentenced 27 Somali pirates to prison after the judge said they had been caught red-handed.

Shiekh Mohamed Abdi Aware, the presiding judge, read the verdict to the media. He said that each of the pirates would face three years in prison.

A crew member aboard the Liberty Sun managed to e-mail his mother while the ship was under fire. "We are under attack by pirates, we are being hit by rockets. Also bullets."

Katy Urbik said her heart stopped as she read that in an e-mail from her son Thomas.

"We are barricaded in the engine room and so far no one is hurt. [A] rocket penetrated the bulkhead but the hole is small. Small fire too but put out," the message from her son continued.

"Navy is on the way and helos and ships are coming. I'll try to send you another message soon. [G]ot to go now. I love you mom and dad and all my brothers and family." amFIX: Full interview with Katy Urbik

Ubrik, of Wheaton, Illinois, said her son e-mailed again half an hour later. "The Navy has showed up in full force and we are now under military escort ... all is well. I love you all and thank you for the prayers," his message said.

The ordeal followed a tense week for the family, said Ubrik, who had closely followed news of the hijacking of the Maersk Alabama and the kidnapping of its captain.

She said of receiving her son's shocking e-mail:

"My heart stopped as soon as I realized there wasn't going to be a 'just kidding' after his comment. Because I had heard from his earlier [Tuesday] morning, saying they had a plan with the Navy, they were being monitored, they had been practicing drills to get into the engine room."

"I opened up my e-mail and it was one of those surreal moments where, am I really reading this?"

After the thwarted attack on the Liberty Sun, the vessel was being escorted by the guided missile destroyer USS Bainbridge -- the same ship carrying Phillips after his dramatic rescue Sunday.  Watch the tough tactics the Navy uses Â»

About 20 U.S. citizens are aboard the Liberty Sun. The ship was delivering humanitarian supplies from the U.N. World Food Programme, CARE and other groups, two senior defense officials told CNN.

Pirates off the coast of Somalia seized two other freighters Tuesday.

First, they hijacked the MV Irene EM, a 35,000-ton Greek-owned bulk carrier, according to a NATO spokesman and the European Union's Maritime Security Center.

The crew of the Greek ship was thought to be unhurt, and ships have been warned to stay clear of the area for fear of further attack, the security center said.

Later Tuesday, pirates on four skiffs seized the 5,000-ton MV Sea Horse, a Lebanese-owned and Togo-flagged vessel, Cmdr. Chris Davies said from NATO's Maritime Component Command Headquarters in Northwood, England.

Further details about the ship and its crew weren't immediately available.

The two freighters seized Tuesday are the third and fourth vessels to be hijacked in two days off the Somali coast.

Pirates on Monday hijacked two Egyptian fishing boats carrying a total of between 18 and 24 people, the Egyptian Information Ministry told CNN.

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry is working to end the hijacking, the information ministry said.

Piracy accelerated after the fall of the Somali government in the early 1990s and began to flourish after shipping companies started paying ransoms. Those payments started out being in the tens of thousands of dollars and have since climbed into the millions.

Some experts say companies are making the problem worse by paying the pirates.

About 16,000 ships a year pass through the region, according to the French Foreign Ministry.

CNN's Pierre Meilhan, Christine Theodorou, Niki Cook, Mike Mount and Chuck Johnston contributed to this report.

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text: rescue

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text: other

text: groups

text: two

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text: defense

text: officials

text: told

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text: Pirates

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text: coast

text: of

text: Somalia

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text: other

text: freighters

text: Tuesday

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text: MV

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text: Maritime

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text: area

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text: attack

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text: security

text: center

text: said

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text: MV

text: Sea

text: Horse

text: a

text: Lebanese

text: owned

text: and

text: Togo

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text: Cmdr

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text: said

text: from

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text: Maritime

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text: Tuesday

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text: third

text: and

text: fourth

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text: be

text: hijacked

text: in

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text: days

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text: the

text: Somali

text: coast

text: Pirates

text: on

text: Monday

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text: two

text: Egyptian

text: fishing

text: boats

text: carrying

text: a

text: total

text: of

text: between

text: and

text: people

text: the

text: Egyptian

text: Information

text: Ministry

text: told

text: CNN

text: The

text: Egyptian

text: Foreign

text: Ministry

text: is

text: working

text: to

text: end

text: the

text: hijacking

text: the

text: information

text: ministry

text: said

text: Piracy

text: accelerated

text: after

text: the

text: fall

text: of

text: the

text: Somali

text: government

text: in

text: the

text: early

text: and

text: began

text: to

text: flourish

text: after

text: shipping

text: companies

text: started

text: paying

text: ransoms

text: Those

text: payments

text: started

text: out

text: being

text: in

text: the

text: tens

text: of

text: thousands

text: of

text: dollars

text: and

text: have

text: since

text: climbed

text: into

text: the

text: millions

text: Some

text: experts

text: say

text: companies

text: are

text: making

text: the

text: problem

text: worse

text: by

text: paying

text: the

text: pirates

text: About

text: ships

text: a

text: year

text: pass

text: through

text: the

text: region

text: according

text: to

text: the

text: French

text: Foreign

text: Ministry

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Pierre

text: Meilhan

text: Christine

text: Theodorou

text: Niki

text: Cook

text: Mike

text: Mount

text: and

text: Chuck

text: Johnston

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: What was the weight of the ship?

answer: 35,000-ton

question: What day was the Liberty Sun attacked on?

answer: Wednesday

text: Wednesday

question: What group did the French Navy track

answer: pirates

text: pirates

question: What country's ship was held by pirates

answer: Greek-flagged

text: Greek-flagged

question: What was the motivation behind the attack?

answer: in response to the killing of Phillips' captors.

text: in response to the killing of Phillips' captors.

question: Who carried out the attack on the Liberty Sun

answer: Pirates

text: Pirates

question: Where was the ship travelling to with its load

answer: South Korea

text: South Korea

question: Where was the ship held hostage?

answer: off the coast of Kenya,

text: off the coast of Kenya,

question: What nationality was the ship held for nearly a month?

answer: Greek

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(CNN) -- Greek voters will go to the polls to elect a new government two years early, Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis announced Thursday.

Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis says he wants to enact reforms in response to the international financial crisis.

He called the early elections in response to pressure from the opposition Socialist Party, which threatened to block the election of a president in February if there was no general election first.

Karamanlis is also seeking a mandate from the voters for reforms in response to the international financial crisis, he said.

"It's up to the citizens to decide who has the right plan to govern and face the economic challenges," he said in a speech to the country.

"We have two very difficult and critical years ahead of us," he said in the speech on Wednesday. "There is only one path that offers hope and potential: We take -- without delay, without procrastination -- take all necessary measures to address these problems. By design and desire. We need to build the solid foundation that will ultimately get us out of this crisis stronger."

He said the country needs "stringent control on public spending," "war on tax-evasion" and "bold structural reforms."

The new elections will be held October 4, Karamanlis announced Thursday after meeting President Karolos Papoulias, who officially dissolves parliament.

Karamanlis' term was not due to expire until September 2011.

But Socialist party leader George Papandreou insisted on new elections before the end of Papoulias' term as president in February. The Greek constitution requires the two major parties to agree on the election of a president, giving either party an effective veto.

Karamanlis called Papandreou's stance "blackmail."

Parliament will be dissolved on September 7, Karamanlis said on his Web site.

Karamanlis' conservative New Democracy party suffered a sharp setback in European elections in June, when the Socialists matched New Democracy's tally of eight seats, with 36 percent of the vote.

That election was seen as a litmus test for Karamanlis at a time of political and economic uncertainty with the economy shrinking and the country staring at a recession after nearly 15 years of high-profile growth.

CNN's Efty Katsareas and Christine Theodorou contributed to this report.

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text: Socialists

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text: vote

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text: Theodorou

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question: What did the PM call for?

answer: early elections

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question: Name the prime minister that announced elections on Thursday

answer: Kostas Karamanlis

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question: Who announced elections Thursday?

answer: Kostas Karamanlis

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question: Which country is Kostas Karamanlis the Prime Minister of?

answer: Greek

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question: He called early elections in response to pressure from which opposition party?

answer: Socialist

text: Socialist

question: What did the Prime Minster call a war on?

answer: tax-evasion"

text: tax-evasion"

question: PM called for war on what type of evasion?

answer: tax-evasion"

text: tax-evasion"

question: Which party was responsible for the pressure placed on the Prime Minister to call early elections?

answer: Socialist

text: Socialist

question: When were the elections announced?

answer: Thursday.

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(CNN) -- Afghan opium kills 100,000 people every year worldwide -- more than any other drug -- and the opiate heroin kills five times as many people in NATO countries each year than the eight-year total of NATO troops killed in Afghan combat, the United Nations said Wednesday.

An Afghan police officer digs up a field of opium poppies in April.

About 15 million people around the world use heroin, opium or morphine, fueling a $65 billion market for the drug and also fueling terrorism and insurgencies: The Taliban raised $450 million to $600 million over the past four years by "taxing" opium farmers and traffickers, Antonio Maria Costa, head of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, said in a report.

Not all the money is going into the pockets of rebels or drug dealers; some Afghan officials are making money off the trade as well, he said.

"The Afghan drug economy generates several hundred million dollars per year into evil hands: some with black turbans, some with white collars," Costa said.

The latter reference is "to officials in the Afghan administration, federal government of Kabul or the provinces or the army or the police," Costa told CNN's Christiane Amanpour.  Watch Costa talk about the problems Â»

And the problem is spreading, he added.

Drug money is funding insurgencies in Central Asia, which has huge energy reserves, Costa said.

"The Silk Route, turned into a heroin route, is carving out a path of death and violence through one of the world's most strategic yet volatile regions," he said.

Authorities are seizing too little heroin, intercepting only about 20 percent of opiate traffic around the world, according to the U.N. report, "Addiction, Crime and Insurgency: the Transnational Threat of Afghan Opium."

It comes on the heels of a U.N. warning last month that two years' worth of opium is effectively "missing," probably stockpiled by the Taliban and criminal gangs.

More than 12,000 tons of opium, which can be consumed as a narcotic itself or turned into heroin, is unaccounted for, the United Nations estimated in September.

It is not clear who has it or why, but the United Nations speculates that criminals could be holding it as a hedge against falling prices or that insurgents or terrorists could be stockpiling it to fund attacks.

The latest report claims to be the first systematic attempt to track where Afghan opium ends up.  See how Afghan heroin reaches Europe and the West Â»

Europe and Russia together consume just under half of the heroin coming out of Afghanistan, the United Nations concluded, and Iran is by far the single largest consumer of Afghan opium.

Afghanistan is also probably supplying an increasing share of the heroin in China -- perhaps as much as a quarter, the report said.

Afghanistan is by far the world's largest producer of opium, although Laos, Myanmar and Latin America produce small quantities, it said.

The United Nations found that Afghanistan may be supplying more heroin to the United States and Canada than had been suspected.

The two North American countries consume more than twice as much heroin as Latin America produces. That means either that more Afghan heroin is making its way to North America than had been known or that Mexico and Columbia are producing more than was realized, the United Nations said.

The report confirmed an estimate that $400 million in drug profits goes to the Taliban, Costa said.

The Taliban "are deeply involved" in processing, in protecting farmers and in exporting, he said.

The solution "is very clear," he said. "We need a much greater effort and commitment by governments to prevent drug addiction, to take care of drug addicts ... to reduce demand."

But the popular will for change needs to increase, he said, noting that the Security Council in 2006 and 2007 passed resolutions inviting member states to give the names of drug traffickers to authorities so that their ability to travel can be curtailed and their assets seized.

"So far, much to my dismay, not a single name was provided to the Security Council," he said.

The report offered little new in the way of possible solutions, said Ethan Nadelmann, founding executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, which promotes alternatives to the war on drugs.

"It's very good at describing a problem," he said. "But it truly is devoid of any kind of pragmatic solution, and it essentially suggests that the answer is to keep doing more of what's failed us in the past."

So long as there is a global demand for opium, there will be a supply, he said.

"If Afghanistan were suddenly wiped out as a producer of opium -- by bad weather or a blight or eradication efforts -- other parts of the world would simply emerge as new producers, "creating all sorts of new problems," he said.

And Afghanistan itself would not be helped either, he said.

"You would see in Afghanistan millions of people probably flocking to the cities unable to make a living and probably turning more to the Taliban than they are now," he said.

He listed three possible options. The first, global legalization and control, "is not happening, not any time soon," he said.

The second option is to increase drug treatment for addicts who want it and to provide legal access to the drug, as Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, England, Spain and Canada have done, he said.

"In all of these places, there are small, growing programs of heroin maintenance that allow addicts to obtain pharmaceutical-grade heroin from legal sources rather than from the black market," he said.

But Nadelmann added that more people died of opiate overdose last year involving pharmaceutical opiates than died from illegal heroin.

A third possibility, he said, would be to view Afghanistan as essentially a red-light zone of global opium production and to think about the solution as a vice-control challenge, "which means acknowledge that Afghanistan is going to continue to be the world's supplier of illegal opium for the foreseeable future and then focus on manipulating and regulating the market participants, even though it is still illegal."

He added, "That, I think, is in some respects the de facto strategy, even though it cannot be stated openly, for political reasons."

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text: are

text: making

text: money

text: off

text: the

text: trade

text: as

text: well

text: he

text: said

text: The

text: Afghan

text: drug

text: economy

text: generates

text: several

text: hundred

text: million

text: dollars

text: per

text: year

text: into

text: evil

text: hands

text: some

text: with

text: black

text: turbans

text: some

text: with

text: white

text: collars

text: Costa

text: said

text: The

text: latter

text: reference

text: is

text: to

text: officials

text: in

text: the

text: Afghan

text: administration

text: federal

text: government

text: of

text: Kabul

text: or

text: the

text: provinces

text: or

text: the

text: army

text: or

text: the

text: police

text: Costa

text: told

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Christiane

text: Amanpour

text: Watch

text: Costa

text: talk

text: about

text: the

text: problems

text: Â

text: And

text: the

text: problem

text: is

text: spreading

text: he

text: added

text: Drug

text: money

text: is

text: funding

text: insurgencies

text: in

text: Central

text: Asia

text: which

text: has

text: huge

text: energy

text: reserves

text: Costa

text: said

text: The

text: Silk

text: Route

text: turned

text: into

text: a

text: heroin

text: route

text: is

text: carving

text: out

text: a

text: path

text: of

text: death

text: and

text: violence

text: through

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: world

text: 's

text: most

text: strategic

text: yet

text: volatile

text: regions

text: he

text: said

text: Authorities

text: are

text: seizing

text: too

text: little

text: heroin

text: intercepting

text: only

text: about

text: percent

text: of

text: opiate

text: traffic

text: around

text: the

text: world

text: according

text: to

text: the

text: U.N.

text: report

text: Addiction

text: Crime

text: and

text: Insurgency

text: the

text: Transnational

text: Threat

text: of

text: Afghan

text: Opium

text: It

text: comes

text: on

text: the

text: heels

text: of

text: a

text: U.N.

text: warning

text: last

text: month

text: that

text: two

text: years

text: worth

text: of

text: opium

text: is

text: effectively

text: missing

text: probably

text: stockpiled

text: by

text: the

text: Taliban

text: and

text: criminal

text: gangs

text: More

text: than

text: tons

text: of

text: opium

text: which

text: can

text: be

text: consumed

text: as

text: a

text: narcotic

text: itself

text: or

text: turned

text: into

text: heroin

text: is

text: unaccounted

text: for

text: the

text: United

text: Nations

text: estimated

text: in

text: September

text: It

text: is

text: not

text: clear

text: who

text: has

text: it

text: or

text: why

text: but

text: the

text: United

text: Nations

text: speculates

text: that

text: criminals

text: could

text: be

text: holding

text: it

text: as

text: a

text: hedge

text: against

text: falling

text: prices

text: or

text: that

text: insurgents

text: or

text: terrorists

text: could

text: be

text: stockpiling

text: it

text: to

text: fund

text: attacks

text: The

text: latest

text: report

text: claims

text: to

text: be

text: the

text: first

text: systematic

text: attempt

text: to

text: track

text: where

text: Afghan

text: opium

text: ends

text: up

text: See

text: how

text: Afghan

text: heroin

text: reaches

text: Europe

text: and

text: the

text: West

text: Â

text: Europe

text: and

text: Russia

text: together

text: consume

text: just

text: under

text: half

text: of

text: the

text: heroin

text: coming

text: out

text: of

text: Afghanistan

text: the

text: United

text: Nations

text: concluded

text: and

text: Iran

text: is

text: by

text: far

text: the

text: single

text: largest

text: consumer

text: of

text: Afghan

text: opium

text: Afghanistan

text: is

text: also

text: probably

text: supplying

text: an

text: increasing

text: share

text: of

text: the

text: heroin

text: in

text: China

text: perhaps

text: as

text: much

text: as

text: a

text: quarter

text: the

text: report

text: said

text: Afghanistan

text: is

text: by

text: far

text: the

text: world

text: 's

text: largest

text: producer

text: of

text: opium

text: although

text: Laos

text: Myanmar

text: and

text: Latin

text: America

text: produce

text: small

text: quantities

text: it

text: said

text: The

text: United

text: Nations

text: found

text: that

text: Afghanistan

text: may

text: be

text: supplying

text: more

text: heroin

text: to

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: and

text: Canada

text: than

text: had

text: been

text: suspected

text: The

text: two

text: North

text: American

text: countries

text: consume

text: more

text: than

text: twice

text: as

text: much

text: heroin

text: as

text: Latin

text: America

text: produces

text: That

text: means

text: either

text: that

text: more

text: Afghan

text: heroin

text: is

text: making

text: its

text: way

text: to

text: North

text: America

text: than

text: had

text: been

text: known

text: or

text: that

text: Mexico

text: and

text: Columbia

text: are

text: producing

text: more

text: than

text: was

text: realized

text: the

text: United

text: Nations

text: said

text: The

text: report

text: confirmed

text: an

text: estimate

text: that

text: million

text: in

text: drug

text: profits

text: goes

text: to

text: the

text: Taliban

text: Costa

text: said

text: The

text: Taliban

text: are

text: deeply

text: involved

text: in

text: processing

text: in

text: protecting

text: farmers

text: and

text: in

text: exporting

text: he

text: said

text: The

text: solution

text: is

text: very

text: clear

text: he

text: said

text: We

text: need

text: a

text: much

text: greater

text: effort

text: and

text: commitment

text: by

text: governments

text: to

text: prevent

text: drug

text: addiction

text: to

text: take

text: care

text: of

text: drug

text: addicts

text: to

text: reduce

text: demand

text: But

text: the

text: popular

text: will

text: for

text: change

text: needs

text: to

text: increase

text: he

text: said

text: noting

text: that

text: the

text: Security

text: Council

text: in

text: and

text: passed

text: resolutions

text: inviting

text: member

text: states

text: to

text: give

text: the

text: names

text: of

text: drug

text: traffickers

text: to

text: authorities

text: so

text: that

text: their

text: ability

text: to

text: travel

text: can

text: be

text: curtailed

text: and

text: their

text: assets

text: seized

text: So

text: far

text: much

text: to

text: my

text: dismay

text: not

text: a

text: single

text: name

text: was

text: provided

text: to

text: the

text: Security

text: Council

text: he

text: said

text: The

text: report

text: offered

text: little

text: new

text: in

text: the

text: way

text: of

text: possible

text: solutions

text: said

text: Ethan

text: Nadelmann

text: founding

text: executive

text: director

text: of

text: the

text: Drug

text: Policy

text: Alliance

text: which

text: promotes

text: alternatives

text: to

text: the

text: war

text: on

text: drugs

text: It

text: 's

text: very

text: good

text: at

text: describing

text: a

text: problem

text: he

text: said

text: But

text: it

text: truly

text: is

text: devoid

text: of

text: any

text: kind

text: of

text: pragmatic

text: solution

text: and

text: it

text: essentially

text: suggests

text: that

text: the

text: answer

text: is

text: to

text: keep

text: doing

text: more

text: of

text: what

text: 's

text: failed

text: us

text: in

text: the

text: past

text: So

text: long

text: as

text: there

text: is

text: a

text: global

text: demand

text: for

text: opium

text: there

text: will

text: be

text: a

text: supply

text: he

text: said

text: If

text: Afghanistan

text: were

text: suddenly

text: wiped

text: out

text: as

text: a

text: producer

text: of

text: opium

text: by

text: bad

text: weather

text: or

text: a

text: blight

text: or

text: eradication

text: efforts

text: other

text: parts

text: of

text: the

text: world

text: would

text: simply

text: emerge

text: as

text: new

text: producers

text: creating

text: all

text: sorts

text: of

text: new

text: problems

text: he

text: said

text: And

text: Afghanistan

text: itself

text: would

text: not

text: be

text: helped

text: either

text: he

text: said

text: You

text: would

text: see

text: in

text: Afghanistan

text: millions

text: of

text: people

text: probably

text: flocking

text: to

text: the

text: cities

text: unable

text: to

text: make

text: a

text: living

text: and

text: probably

text: turning

text: more

text: to

text: the

text: Taliban

text: than

text: they

text: are

text: now

text: he

text: said

text: He

text: listed

text: three

text: possible

text: options

text: The

text: first

text: global

text: legalization

text: and

text: control

text: is

text: not

text: happening

text: not

text: any

text: time

text: soon

text: he

text: said

text: The

text: second

text: option

text: is

text: to

text: increase

text: drug

text: treatment

text: for

text: addicts

text: who

text: want

text: it

text: and

text: to

text: provide

text: legal

text: access

text: to

text: the

text: drug

text: as

text: Switzerland

text: Germany

text: the

text: Netherlands

text: England

text: Spain

text: and

text: Canada

text: have

text: done

text: he

text: said

text: In

text: all

text: of

text: these

text: places

text: there

text: are

text: small

text: growing

text: programs

text: of

text: heroin

text: maintenance

text: that

text: allow

text: addicts

text: to

text: obtain

text: pharmaceutical

text: grade

text: heroin

text: from

text: legal

text: sources

text: rather

text: than

text: from

text: the

text: black

text: market

text: he

text: said

text: But

text: Nadelmann

text: added

text: that

text: more

text: people

text: died

text: of

text: opiate

text: overdose

text: last

text: year

text: involving

text: pharmaceutical

text: opiates

text: than

text: died

text: from

text: illegal

text: heroin

text: A

text: third

text: possibility

text: he

text: said

text: would

text: be

text: to

text: view

text: Afghanistan

text: as

text: essentially

text: a

text: red

text: light

text: zone

text: of

text: global

text: opium

text: production

text: and

text: to

text: think

text: about

text: the

text: solution

text: as

text: a

text: vice

text: control

text: challenge

text: which

text: means

text: acknowledge

text: that

text: Afghanistan

text: is

text: going

text: to

text: continue

text: to

text: be

text: the

text: world

text: 's

text: supplier

text: of

text: illegal

text: opium

text: for

text: the

text: foreseeable

text: future

text: and

text: then

text: focus

text: on

text: manipulating

text: and

text: regulating

text: the

text: market

text: participants

text: even

text: though

text: it

text: is

text: still

text: illegal

text: He

text: added

text: That

text: I

text: think

text: is

text: in

text: some

text: respects

text: the

text: de

text: facto

text: strategy

text: even

text: though

text: it

text: can

text: not

text: be

text: stated

text: openly

text: for

text: political

text: reasons

question: What  Afghan  trade funds terrorism?

answer: opium

text: opium

question: How many tons of opium are missing?

answer: 12,000

question: how many tons are missing?

answer: 12,000

question: who is the largest producer?

answer: Afghanista

text: Afghanista

question: according to a report, what does the afghan heroin do?

answer: kills 100,000 people every year worldwide

text: kills 100,000 people every year worldwide

question: afghanistan is the world's largest producer of what?

answer: f opium

text: f opium

question: What country is the largest consumer of Afghan heroin?

answer: d Ira

text: d Ira


text:
(CNN) -- Grammy-winning trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, a leading figure in jazz during a five-decade career, has died at age 70, about a month after suffering a heart attack, his publicist said Tuesday.

In the 1970s, Freddie Hubbard made a series of funk- and fusion-oriented albums, such as the 1970 hit "Red Clay."

Hubbard died Monday morning in Sherman Oaks, California, outside Los Angeles, after a long battle with heart disease, spokesman Don Lucoff told CNN. He had been hospitalized since suffering a heart attack the day before Thanksgiving and took a turn for the worse last week, Lucoff said.

"Freddie Hubbard, in terms of the advent of modern jazz, the birth of bebop, was probably among the five greatest trumpet players that has ever lived ... He's really right up there with Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Lee Morgan, Roy Eldridge, an innovator and great composer," Lucoff said.

A native of Indianapolis, Indiana, Hubbard moved to New York in the late 1950s. By the mid-1960s, he was playing alongside such major jazz figures as Art Blakey, Oliver Nelson, Ornette Coleman, Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter.

In the early 1970s, he made a series of funk- and fusion-oriented albums, such as the 1970 hit "Red Clay" and 1972's Grammy-winning "First Light."

"The thing that set Freddie Hubbard apart was he played rapidly, he played soulfully and he really set the pace for a lot of the trumpet players who have come after him in the last 20 or 30 years," Lucoff said.

Hubbard was named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master in 2006. He is survived by wife, Briggie, and son Duane.

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text: winning

text: trumpeter

text: Freddie

text: Hubbard

text: a

text: leading

text: figure

text: in

text: jazz

text: during

text: a

text: five

text: decade

text: career

text: has

text: died

text: at

text: age

text: about

text: a

text: month

text: after

text: suffering

text: a

text: heart

text: attack

text: his

text: publicist

text: said

text: Tuesday

text: In

text: the

text: Freddie

text: Hubbard

text: made

text: a

text: series

text: of

text: funk-

text: and

text: fusion

text: oriented

text: albums

text: such

text: as

text: the

text: hit

text: Red

text: Clay

text: Hubbard

text: died

text: Monday

text: morning

text: in

text: Sherman

text: Oaks

text: California

text: outside

text: Los

text: Angeles

text: after

text: a

text: long

text: battle

text: with

text: heart

text: disease

text: spokesman

text: Don

text: Lucoff

text: told

text: CNN

text: He

text: had

text: been

text: hospitalized

text: since

text: suffering

text: a

text: heart

text: attack

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text: day

text: before

text: Thanksgiving

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text: a

text: turn

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text: worse

text: last

text: week

text: Lucoff

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text: five

text: greatest

text: trumpet

text: players

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text: has

text: ever

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text: Davis

text: Lee

text: Morgan

text: Roy

text: Eldridge

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text: innovator

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text: great

text: composer

text: Lucoff

text: said

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text: native

text: of

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text: to

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text: York

text: in

text: the

text: late

text: By

text: the

text: he

text: was

text: playing

text: alongside

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text: jazz

text: figures

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text: Blakey

text: Oliver

text: Nelson

text: Ornette

text: Coleman

text: Herbie

text: Hancock

text: and

text: Wayne

text: Shorter

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text: early

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text: series

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text: oriented

text: albums

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text: hit

text: Red

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text: 's

text: Grammy

text: winning

text: First

text: Light

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text: thing

text: that

text: set

text: Freddie

text: Hubbard

text: apart

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text: played

text: rapidly

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text: played

text: soulfully

text: and

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text: set

text: the

text: pace

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text: lot

text: of

text: the

text: trumpet

text: players

text: who

text: have

text: come

text: after

text: him

text: in

text: the

text: last

text: or

text: years

text: Lucoff

text: said

text: Hubbard

text: was

text: named

text: a

text: National

text: Endowment

text: for

text: the

text: Arts

text: Jazz

text: Master

text: in

text: He

text: is

text: survived

text: by

text: wife

text: Briggie

text: and

text: son

text: Duane

question: How old was Hubbard at the time of this article?

answer: 70,

question: What kind of music did Hubbard play?

answer: jazz

text: jazz

question: What health condition did Hubbard have?

answer: heart disease,

text: heart disease,

question: Who did Hubbard play with?

answer: Art Blakey, Oliver Nelson, Ornette Coleman, Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter.

text: Art Blakey, Oliver Nelson, Ornette Coleman, Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter.

question: When was Hubbard named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master?

answer: 2006.

question: In what year was Hubbard named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master?

answer: 2006.

question: What are Art Blakely and Herbie Hancock known for?

answer: jazz

text: jazz

question: What was Hubbard named?

answer: National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master

text: National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master

question: What award did the trumpeter win?

answer: Grammy-winning

text: Grammy-winning

question: Who fought heart disease?

answer: Freddie Hubbard

text: Freddie Hubbard

question: Name of the award winning trumpeter?

answer: Freddie Hubbard,

text: Freddie Hubbard,