Uzbekistan&s acting minister of foreign affairs, Vladimir Naraf, on Wednesday confirmed a delegation from Kabul would participate at next week&s international meeting in Tashkent on Afghanistan and said the aim of the summit was to get the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) to fulfill its commitments to the international community...

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Denmark has contributes $2.5 million to the Afghanistan Humanitarian Fund (AHF), according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid (UNOCHA).

This comes amid ongoing calls by the United Nations for countries and international organizations to contribute humanitarian aid to the people of Afghanistan.

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Local dry fruit traders are concerned about the partial resumption of the banking system of Afghanistan since the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan&s (IEA) takeover in August last year.

Dry fruit traders said this week that only two weeks ago did Ghazanfar Bank in Kabul start accepting foreign transfers. Since August last year, traders have been...

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Three hundred people have reportedly been hospitalized and are being treated for cholera in Kandahar and Helmand provinces, officials said Tuesday.

The death toll has not yet been confirmed but on Sunday reports indicated at least 20 people had died in Helmand.

Residents of Baghran district in Helmand meanwhile said in a telephone conversation on...

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Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country on Wednesday, hours before he was due to step down after widespread protests over his handling of a devastating economic crisis.

Rajapaksa, his wife and two bodyguards left the main international airport near Colombo aboard a Sri Lankan Air Force plane, the air force said in a statement.

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At least 63 people have died in flash floods caused by heavy rain in several provinces of Afghanistan in the past week, officials said on Tuesday.

Eighty-one others were injured in the floods which happened in 12 provinces of the country, said Ghulam Ghaws Naseri, acting minister of state for disaster management.

According to the official, 12,250...

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