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International

Afghan earthquake death toll crosses 1,400, authorities say

Injured children receive treatment at a hospital after an earthquake on September 1, 2025.
International

Earthquake in Afghanistan kills 800, injures 2,800

Men smoke outside a venue, which will host a meeting of foreign ministers of the BRICS group of nations, in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia June 9, 2024. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
International

Afghanistan wants to join Brics, says Taleban government

Afghan women workers prepare almonds at a factory. Women and girls have borne the brunt of restrictions – including being barred from public parks, universities and singing in public – which the United Nations has labelled “gender apartheid”.
Lifestyle

Meryl Streep says a 'squirrel has more rights' than an Afghan girl

Several years of punishing drought has displaced entire swaths of Afghanistan, one of the nations most vulnerable to climate change.
International

Barren fields and empty stomachs: Afghanistan’s long, punishing drought

Poppy cultivation in Myanmar declined between 2014 and 2020 but has increased by 33 per cent since the military overthrew the democratically elected government in February 2021.
International

Myanmar overtakes Afghanistan as world’s top opium producer

Afghanistan (R) represents a potentially valuable addition to the global Belt and Road initiative, given its natural reserves including copper and gold.
International

Taleban official in Beijing seeks to deepen economic ties with China

Taliban fighters celebrating the first anniversary of the withdrawal of US-led troops from Afghanistan in Kabul on Aug 31, a day that has been declared a national holiday in the country following the withdrawal of US-led troops from there after a brutal 20-year war.
International

Two Russian embassy staff killed in bombing near Kabul mission

A United States drone strike killed Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri at a hideout in Kabul, President Joe Biden said Monday, declaring that “justice had been delivered” to the families of the 9/11 attacks.
International

US kills Al-Qaeda chief in Afghan drone strike

Many survivors of Afghanistan’s deadliest earthquake in more than two decades were on Friday without food, shelter and water as they waited in devastated villages for relief workers to reach them, with rain compounding their misery.
International

Afghanistan ends search for quake survivors; many without food,shelter as floods hamper relief effort

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