Russian President Vladimir Putin evoked the memory of Soviet heroism in World War Two on Monday (May 9) to urge his army towards victory in Ukraine but acknowledged the cost in Russian lives as he pledged to help the families of fallen soldiers.

Addressing massed ranks of service personnel on Red Square on the 77th anniversary of victory over Nazi...

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Recent rain across a large part of Afghanistan has helped increase the level of Salma Dam in Herat province, enabling authorities to activate all three power-generating turbines.

According to local officials, 80 cubic meters of water is flowing through the floodgates per second since last week&s rain.

Officials said that not only is the water...

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Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB), the country&s central bank, took delivery of another cash aid shipment of $32 million on Monday.

Officials from the bank took delivery of the package and immediately handed it over to a commercial bank, DAB officials confirmed.

This comes after Saturday&s shipment of the same amount.

Under the guidance of the...

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The world had counted a total of 517,102,062 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 6,250,668 deaths as of 13:20 Sunday (BJT), according to data from the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.

In particular, the United States, which reported most cases, had logged over 81.85 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 with...

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Nangarhar officials said this week that domestic honey production has increased this year, against last year, and that so far, 650 tons has been produced.

Beekeepers have said however that recent political developments and drought have affected their trade.

But officials at the Nangarhar Department of Agriculture say significant steps have been...

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EU Special Representative for Afghanistan Thomas Nicholson met with Amir Khan Muttaqi, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), and stressed the need to continue efforts to improve the economic and education situation in the country.

Nicholson, who met Muttaqi in Kabul on Sunday, also discussed the need for...

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