Ukrainian troops said they had retaken the key bastion of Lyman in occupied eastern Ukraine, a stinging defeat that prompted a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin to call for the possible use of low-grade nuclear weapons.

The capture on Saturday came just a day after Putin proclaimed the annexation of nearly a fifth of Ukraine &...

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Pomegranate production has declined by 10 percent in Afghanistan&s southern Kandahar province, local officials said this week.

Drought and floods are said to be the main reasons behind the decline in pomegranate yield in Kandahar this year.

&We have pomegranate trees covering 10,000 hectares of land. Unfortunately, this year&s...

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At least 174 people were killed and around 180 injured at a soccer match in Indonesia after panicked fans were trampled and crushed trying to flee during a riot, police said on Sunday, in what appeared to be one of the world&s worst stadium disasters, Reuters reported.

When supporters of the losing home team invaded the pitch in East Java...

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Climate change added at least 10% more rain to Hurricane Ian, a study prepared immediately after the storm shows.

Thursday&s research, which is not peer-reviewed, compared peak rainfall rates during the real storm to about 20 different computer scenarios of a model with Hurricane Ian&s characteristics slamming into the Sunshine State in...

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The officials of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) have recently said that the price of food items and oil has decreased by 30 percent in the country.

Mohammad Yunus Mohmand, deputy head of Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Investment (ACCI) has said that over the past month, the price of food items and oil have...

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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday it assisted two out of every five Afghans over the past one year.

WFP said on Twitter it assisted 21.4 million people in Afghanistan during the past one year.

&A massive scale-up of life-saving food assistance over the past year has helped save countless lives. WFP has...

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