After Washington announced its plan to use half of $7 billion in frozen Afghan assets for humanitarian aid, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan said on Friday the US has agreed not to give it to charity organizations.

The agreement came during a meeting between IEA&s Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi and US special envoy for...

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Officials at Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB), the country&s central bank, confirmed Sunday that $32 million in cash aid arrived in Kabul on Saturday.

According to officials, &this is the 18th humanitarian aid package to reach Kabul and be delivered to the International Bank of Afghanistan (AIB).&

DAB welcomed the aid package and called...

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YouTube is immediately blocking access around the world to channels associated with Russian state-funded media, it said on Friday, citing a policy barring content that denies, minimizes or trivializes well-documented violent events.

The world&s most used streaming video service, which is owned by Alphabet Inc&s (GOOGL.O) Google, said...

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Afghanistan&s Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation said on Saturday that passenger bus services between Afghanistan and Pakistan will be rolled out in the near future and will initially run between Kandahar and Quetta; and Nangarhar and Peshawar.

According to officials, private bus companies from both countries will provide the services.

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Turkmen President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov&s son, Serdar, is poised to win Saturday&s snap presidential election and succeed his father as the ruler of a gas-rich Central Asian nation of six million.

President Berdymukhamedov, in power since 2007, called the vote last month, saying he wanted to give way to a new generation of leaders...

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