UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday appointed a former president of Kyrgyzstan as his new special envoy for Afghanistan.

Roza Otunbayeva replaces Deborah Lyons, who stepped down in mid-June, the United Nations said in a statement.

Otunbayeva served as Kyrgyz president during 2010-2011 and on three occasions as foreign minister. She was a...

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Ground teams at Kennedy Space Center prepared on Saturday for a second try at launching NASA&s towering, next-generation moon rocket on its debut flight, hoping to have remedied engineering problems that foiled the initial countdown five days earlier.

The 32-story tall Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and its Orion capsule were due for...

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The Foreign Ministry says the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) will try to support the youth of the country in various sport fields.

Speaking at the Football Federation on Thursday, Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi addressed hundreds of athletes and emphasized that the new government of Afghanistan will do its best to provide facilities for...

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Mohammad Naeem, the spokesman of the Political Office of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in Qatar, says that the current government of Afghanistan has no particular problem with any country, not even Israel.

Referring to the foreign policy of the Islamic Emirate, Naeem said on Wednesday in an interview with the Al Jazeera TV channel that the...

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It is in the interest of Afghanistan and the world to interact with each other and broaden their engagement, the outgoing ambassador of Pakistan in Kabul, Mansoor Ahmad Khan, said this week.

Speaking in an exclusive interview with Ariana News, Khan said that recognition of the Afghan government is a legal process and it has to follow a process.

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The European Medicines Agency has recommended the authorization of two coronavirus vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Inc., tweaked to include protection against an early version of the omicron variant.

In a statement on Thursday, the EU drug regulator said the two messenger RNA boosters offered protection both against the original...

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