The European Union has contributed 500,000 euros to support the food needs of communities in the Afghan provinces of Paktika and Khost which were affected by an earthquake in late June, The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on Thursday.

The funds will help WFP deliver emergency food assistance to more than 170,000...

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The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said it is facing a funding shortfall as it only has 50% of the money it needs for Afghanistan for 2022.

Melissa Fleming, the United Nations Global Communications Officer, tweeted on Wednesday, &The people of Afghanistan are suffering. They need our support more...

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The European Union&s Catalan Agency for Development Cooperation (ACCD) has contributed EUR 290,000 to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) fund for acutely malnourished children and mothers across Afghanistan.

Thanks to this funding, more than 8,000 malnourished women and children in the areas of highest need will be supported with...

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Pakistan&s prime minister on Wednesday promised the country&s homeless people that the government will ensure they are paid to rebuild and return to their lives after the country&s worst-ever floods, AP reported.

With winter just weeks away, half a million people are living in camps after being displaced by the flood, which...

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Seventy-one Azerbaijani soldiers have been killed in recent days in &provocations& by Armenia, Azerbaijan&s Defense Ministry said Thursday.

The ministry said that so far, 71 Azerbaijani soldiers have died during the recent flare-up, while Armenia&s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced on Wednesday that 105 Armenian...

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NASA has called for proposals for two private astronaut missions to the International Space Station in 2023 and 2024, enforcing a requirement such missions be commanded by former NASA astronauts.

NASA said on Wednesday it was seeking proposals for the third and fourth private astronaut missions, or PAMs, to the space station, with the proposals due...

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