United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will visit Moscow next week to meet Russia&s President Vladimir Putin and then head to Ukraine for talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

Guterres will head to Moscow on Tuesday and meet Putin as well as having a working meeting and lunch with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Eri...

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Almost 80% of Afghan girls are missing out on an education, Save the Children said Friday- almost a month after the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) issued a ban on teenage girls going to school.

A study by Save the Children, UNICEF and its Education Cluster partners has assessed who has returned to school in the past month across Afghanistan....

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International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach on Thursday visited Afghan and Ukrainian cyclists who are currently living and training in Switzerland.

Samira Asghari, IOC member from Afghanistan, joined Bach and the Ukrainian delegation during their visit to the 23 athletes who joined the World Cycling Centre in Aigle, Switzerland.

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At least 33 people were killed when in an explosion went off at a mosque in Afghanistan&s northern Kunduz province on Friday, officials said.

Fourty-three others were wounded in the blast which happened in Imam Sahib district, said Zabiuhllah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA).

He said that the casualties were...

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Nangarhar officials said Friday that strawberry harvests in the eastern Afghan province have increased to 170 metric tonnes this year.

According to the Nangarhar agriculture department, 300 acres of land is now used for the cultivation of strawberries in the province.

Local farmers meanwhile said they could increase their crops if government helps...

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Officials of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) in Balkh province announced Friday they had arrested the mastermind of Thursday&s bombing of the Shiite mosque in Mazar-e-Sharif.

&Abdul Hamid Sangaryar, a key member of Daesh in Balkh, has been detained by security forces during a special operation in the Chahar Bolak district of...

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