But most people seem to believe Zahir Shah can somehow unify their war-ravaged country.
And it helped him imagine something else: a bleak, war-ravaged future version of Earth.
But now he clearly sees the parallels between his cousin and those war-ravaged kids in Africa.
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Allies across the Atlantic were united in their commitment to protect war-ravaged Western Europe from Soviet aggression.
Will it also succeed in setting up an administrative system that works for the war-ravaged Malakand region?
The man in charge, Under-Secretary-General Jean Marie Guehenno, explains the challenges of achieving freedom and democracy in war-ravaged nations.
But Noor's story is just one of many and represents the greater need for humanitarian aid to the war-ravaged region.
From the countries of the war-ravaged Great Lakes region, such as Congo and Rwanda, Nairobi appears an oasis of calm.
But youthful enthusiasm can only take you so far in any sport, particularly from a war-ravaged country with little competitive structure.
Talisman claims to have convinced the government to set up a fund to help war-ravaged areas, an idea the government claims as its own.
In the war-ravaged Democratic Republic of Congo, several efforts are under way to stabilize large parts of the country ahead of national elections in April.
Could he replicate his work in that war-ravaged Central American nation?
The war-ravaged capital is one of Asia's hottest property markets.
The biggest reason for optimism, though, is success in registering Afghanistan's estimated 9.5m voters, a Herculean task in a war-ravaged land where no proper census has ever been attempted.
Concerned that the transitional administration of Hamid Karzai could not cope, Afghanistan's minister for refugees asked Britain and other European countries not to force asylum-seekers back to the war-ravaged country.
The debt relief, plus the aid Iraq is receiving from America, should give the government in Baghdad the resources to rebuild the country's war-ravaged infrastructure and start tackling poverty and unemployment.
He said that, time and again, war-ravaged people had asked for help in establishing security and safety, restoring basic services and core Government functions, supporting a political transition and jump-starting economic recovery.
He expected the summit to discuss the question of outside security forces entering Afghanistan, but Washington first wanted Afghans to try to "get rid of the bandits" threatening aid efforts in the war-ravaged state.
In 1993, in Geneva, the leaders of Bosnia's Serbs, Croats and Muslims met face to face for the first time in three months to press rival plans for the division of their war-ravaged state.
It will hardly be a surprise that the worst-performing countries are mostly in Africa, but within that continent there is much variation: from a 56% improvement in Malawi to a 52% decline in war-ravaged Congo.
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One of Kuwait's leading environmental scientists, with three decades experience in resource conservation, Asem has played a major role in restoring Kuwait's war-ravaged ecosystems as head of the United Nations Compensation Commission's environmental remediation program.
With my third novel, "The City of Devi, " it seemed natural to return to second-person, in which my lovelorn heroine Sarita could address her missing husband Karun, whom she sets out to find in the desolate streets of war-ravaged Mumbai.
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The men began feeding information to US government officials in Iraq until, in April 2006, the company confiscated their credentials to enter the Baghdad Green Zone, effectively barring them from the safest part of the war-ravaged country, according to their court pleadings.
Asia had been ravaged by war - atomic bombs fell over Hiroshima, succeeding armies marched across the Philippines, guerrillas fought over Indochina.
The rift between the American and French governments over the Iraq war and the anti-French sentiment it generated ravaged sales of BPDR wines by an acknowledged 30% in the U.S. through May.
World War II-devastated nations from Europe to Asia returned to prosperity, with the defeated ravaged nations of Germany and Japan becoming economic superpowers.
The treaty signed by six nations -- Belgium, France, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands -- was intended to create lasting economic and political stability for a continent ravaged by war.
Efforts to make Band-e-Amir a national park began in the 1970s but were put on hold through the decades of war that ravaged the country.
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