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The World's Strangest Land Grab?

The World's Strangest Land Grab?

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Dec 12, 2014
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Uzbekistan has a perhaps unusual ally in its territorial claims over neighboring Afghanistan: the mighty and ever-wandering Amu Darya river. And no one knows it better than the children of Arigh Ayagh School, just inside Afghanistan.

Built in 2007 about 3km from the Amu Darya - which runs along the border between the two central Asian giants - the school…

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