The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan&s (IEA) Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) on Saturday rolled out a nationwide measles vaccination campaign and hopes to reach at least seven million children.

Public Health Ministry officials said the campaign will run for 10 days and that vaccination teams have been set up at mosques, schools and health...

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The Islamic Emirate&s Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MoIC) says the largest shipment to date of Afghan exports was dispatched on Saturday to Europe.

According to officials, 120 tons was sent overland. Of this seven tons was saffron and the rest was goods that included dried fruits and carpets. The export volume is worth $2 million.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday highlighted the importance of peace and stability in Afghanistan, saying it is essential in terms of threats and risks.

&Peace and stability in Afghanistan is essential in terms of common threats and risks, beyond our humanitarian duty for our Afghan brothers,& Erdogan said in a joint...

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NASA&s Orion spacecraft was placed in lunar orbit on Friday, as it neared the halfway mark of its test flight.

About ten days after the spacecraft blasted off from Florida bound for the moon, flight controllers &successfully performed a burn to insert Orion into a distant retrograde orbit,& NASA said on its website.

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Deputy head of UNAMA and Uzbekistan&s foreign minister have discussed implementing an initiative to set up an International Group to negotiate with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) government.

&We discussed situation in Afghanistan, implementing initiative to set up an International Group to negotiate with Afghan government to...

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The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) on Friday condemned remarks by a spokesperson of the UN Human Rights Office on floggings and said the comments were an insult to Islam.

Ravina Shamdasani, a spokesperson for the UN Human Rights Office, in a statement on Friday said the agency was &appalled by mass floggings in public by the de facto...

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