U.S. first lady Jill Biden made an unannounced trip to Ukraine on Sunday (May 8) to show support for its people amid Russia&s invasion, visiting a school that is serving as a temporary shelter and meeting Ukraine&s first lady, Olena Zelenska.

&I thought it was important to show the Ukrainian people that this war has to stop and...

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Afghanistan&s national football team will play a friendly match against Vietnam on June 1 as part of their preparations for the 2023 AFC Asian Cup final round qualifiers.

Afghanistan Football Federation said in a statement Sunday that the team would travel to Vietnam&s capital Hanoi for a training camp that will start on May 21 and end...

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The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) has helped end a longstanding dispute between two tribes in eastern Paktia province.

Members of the Saro Kheil and Sultan Kheil tribes, who had a 60-year dispute, gathered at a ceremony in Gerda Seray district of Paktia and reconciled with each other.

During the event, Anas Haqqani, a senior member of the...

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The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan&s (IEA) order Saturday for women to wear a burqa in public has sparked widespread reaction from around the world.

Among thse who have expressed concern are the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), the UN&s Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, and the US special envoy for Afghan...

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As many as 60 people were feared to have been killed in the Russian bombing of a village school in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, the regional governor said on Sunday.

Governor Serhiy Gaidai said Russian forces dropped a bomb on Saturday afternoon on the school in Bilohorivka where about 90 people were sheltering, causing a fire that...

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Da Afghanistan Bank, the central bank, said another cash aid package of $32 million arrived in Afghanistan on Sunday and was immediately transferred to a commercial bank.

&Da Afghanistan Bank welcomes the entry of currencies into the country through principled and legal means and while appreciating the humanitarian assistance of the...

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