More than 1.2 million children aged 6 to 59 months are earmarked to be vaccinated during the current measles vaccination campaign in Afghanistan, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement.

According to WHO, about 9,200 health workers, volunteers, supervisors, and monitors have been mobilized to cover 49 districts in 24 provinces in a...

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Afghan security forces on Monday arrested a man trying to smuggle $600,000 from Afghanistan to Iran, an official said.

The arrest was made by border forces at Milak border crossing in Nimroz province, said Mawlawi Hashim Hanzala, the border commissary.

The official identified the arrested individual as Syed Momin, a permanent resident of Nimfoz...

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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Sunday he advised Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) officials on what steps need to be taken for the Afghan government to gain international recognition.

&We told them in a very friendly fashion which steps should be taken for international recognition,& Cavusoglu told a press...

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Washington&s ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, on Friday warned Russia&s claim that the US is funding &military biological activities& in Ukraine could be a pretext for Moscow launching its own biological weapons attack on Ukraine.

Thomas-Greenfield made the comments during a UN Security Council meeting that had...

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United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has expressed concern over the plight of children in Afghanistan and said that 3.5 million Afghan children currently need nutrition treatment.

In a tweet on Sunday WFP said: &Acute malnutrition rates in 28 out of 34 provinces are high with more than 3.5 million children in need of nutrition treatment...

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The Afghan embassy in Washington, which is under severe financial pressure and cut off from the new Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) government in Kabul, will close down in the coming week, a senior State Department official confirmed Saturday.

Its diplomats, holdovers from the old government, now have a month to apply for US visas before being...

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