Afghanistan&s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday said the United States& decision to transfer $3.5 billion of the country&s frozen foreign reserves to a Swiss fund without any input from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) was unacceptable and a violation of international norms.

In a statement issued by the ministry, it...

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Climate change likely juiced rainfall by up to 50% late last month in two southern Pakistan provinces, but global warming wasn&t the biggest cause of the country&s catastrophic flooding that has killed more than 1,500 people, a new scientific analysis finds, AP reported.

Pakistan&s overall vulnerability, including people living in...

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday that now was not the time for war, directly assailing the Kremlin chief in public over the nearly seven-month-long conflict in Ukraine.

Locked in a confrontation with the West over the war, Putin has repeatedly said Russia is not isolated because it can look...

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The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit was held on Friday in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

In this meeting, the president of Uzbekistan suggested the establishment of a humanitarian support fund for Afghanistan. Simultaneously, Shehbaz Sharif, the prime minister of Pakistan emphasized on ensuring peace and stability in Afghanistan and in his...

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Two COVID-19 antibody therapies are no longer recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), on the basis that Omicron and the variant&s latest offshoots have likely rendered them obsolete.

The two therapies & which are designed to work by binding to the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 to neutralise the virus& ability to infect...

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Afghan Ministry of Mines and Petroleum said this week that 250 domestic and foreign firms have submitted their bids for the iron mine in Herat and lead mine in Ghor province.

Esmatullah Burhan, a spokesman for the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum, said that it is evaluating the bids and will soon announce the winners.

The iron ore in Herat&s...

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