A Russian rocket on Tuesday successfully launched an Iranian satellite into orbit from the Russia-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan, AP reported.

The Soyuz rocket lifted off as scheduled at 8:52 am Moscow time. About nine minutes after the launch, it placed the Iranian satellite called Khayyam into orbit. It&s named after Omar...

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Former president Hamid Karzai said this week that while Afghanistan was more secure today than a year ago, the economy was a &disaster& and that it was time for the US to &correct it&s mistakes&. 

In an interview with NPR this week, Karzai discussed the current situation in the country and the events of August 15...

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WhatsApp is to allow users to leave group chats without notifying others and control who can see when they are online as part of a privacy update to the messaging app.

As part of the update, which is rolling out this month, users will also be given the ability to block people from taking screenshots of View Once messages, which are designed to...

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Iranian police detained an Afghan man who is suspected of fatally stabbing 10 farmworkers in the southern part of the country, local media reported. 

Tasnim News reported that the incident took place in a village near the Iranian city of Rafsanjan, following a dispute over land.

According to police, the suspect stabbed and killed six Afghan...

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Former US president Donald Trump said FBI agents raided his Mar-a-Lago estate on Monday and broke into his safe in what his son acknowledged was part of an investigation into Trump&s removal of official presidential records from the White House to his Florida resort.

The unprecedented search of a former president&s home would mark a...

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All religious groups including non-Muslims can observe their ceremonies freely in Afghanistan, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, deputy foreign minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), said on Monday.

Stanikzai said this while speaking at a ceremony in Kabul to celebrate Ashura which falls on the 10th day of the lunar calendar month of...

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