Afghanistan

Facebook-owner Meta Platforms Inc (FB.O) is opening up access to a large language model for artificial intelligence research, the social media company said on Tuesday.

Meta said its model was the first 175-billion-parameter language model to be made available to the broader AI research community.

&Large language models& are natural...

The United States would like the U.N. Security Council to vote during May to further sanction North Korea over its renewed ballistic missile launches, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said on Tuesday.

The United States circulated an initial draft resolution to the 15-member council last month that proposed banning...

The UN Security Council has condemned &in the strongest terms& the continued terrorist attacks targeting civilians in Afghanistan.

In a statement issued by the council, the UNSC condemned the recent attacks, including the attack against the Mawlawi Sekander mosque in Kunduz on April 22 which killed more than 25 people, and the attack...

Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) forces will protect the country&s airports and that negotiations on bringing in the help of another country is based on technical issues only, its deputy spokesman said on Tuesday.

Qatar and Turkey have been in talks with the IEA in recent months to help run Afghan airports, but they have yet to reach an...