Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), and deputy minister of the IEA&s Ministry of Information and Culture, said progress has been made at a meeting of religious scholars and girls& schools would reopen soon.

Speaking to reporters in Kabul on Sunday Mujahid said: &Good progress has been made...

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Lobbying groups representing Facebook(FB.O), Twitter(TWTR.N), Google (GOOGL.O) and other tech companies filed an emergency request with the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday, seeking to block a Texas law that prohibits large social media platforms from banning users based on their political views.

The Texas law went into effect on Wednesday when the 5th...

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Russia&s offensive in Ukraine is failing and its operation in the Donbass region has stalled, NATO&s secretary general said on Sunday, Reuters reported.

&Russia&s war in Ukraine is not going as Moscow had planned. They failed to take Kyiv,& Jens Stoltenberg told reporters by video link. &They are pulling back...

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A gunman opened fire in a Southern California church during a lunch banquet on Sunday, killing one person and wounding five, before churchgoers detained the suspect and hog-tied his legs with an electrical cord, authorities said.

Police responded to the incident that unfolded at about 1:30 p.m. local time (2039 GMT) at the Geneva Presbyterian...

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Tashkent will host a high-level international conference on Afghanistan at the end of July, Uzbekistan&s interim Minister of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Norov announced.

Norov said the key focus would be on security, political stability and the socio-economic development of the region.

&As for Afghanistan, unfortunately, we are seeing a...

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Russia has probably lost around a third of the ground forces it deployed to Ukraine and its offensive in the Donbas region &has lost momentum and fallen significantly behind schedule&, British military intelligence said on Sunday.

&Despite small-scale initial advances, Russia has failed to achieve substantial territorial gains...

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