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As the meeting place for foreign journalists and diplomats, local politicians and warlords, the Inter-Con long functioned as a vital institution of Afghanistan’s public life.

It was minted by a Viking warlord after he became a Christian king, known as Aethelstan II.

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Their warlord father is displeased with both of them.

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Fifteen years later, Libya remains a basket case of militias, warlords and weak institutions.

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The actor also played the doomed warlord who divides his kingdom between his sons in "Ran", Kurosawa's 1985 film based on the Shakespeare play "King Lear".

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