Afghan mining minister Wahidullah Shahrani said in an interview that he couldn't be sure if the mine filmed by Mr. Barakzai is still operating.

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"I don't really want Tesco's here because it won't be good for town centre shops such as mine, " he said.

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But just because this population is an ideal place to mine for bad genes doesn't mean those genes will be found, or that once they are found they will lead to valuable drugs or even genetic tests.

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The rail-line route passes through an Aboriginal reserve called Abydos-Woodstock, and the entire footprint of the mine and railway must, by law, be cleared with T.

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"I didn't lose the championship in Abu Dhabi so that's not a problem at all, it wasn't mine to lose, " he says and dismisses the tag that he might be the nearly man of the sport.

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But I'd be lying if I said the X-Games and the Winter Olympics weren't an ambition of mine.

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