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Taliban becomes lithium police

Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have arrested five men allegedly trying to smuggle an estimated 1,000t of lithium-bearing rocks out of the country, US public-funded broadcaster Voice of America reported.

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The arrests were reported to have been made at the eastern Afghan border city of Jalalabad.