AT News Kabul: The United States on Friday announced a $1.1 billion arms package for Taiwan, vowing to keep boosting the island’s defences as tensions soar with Beijing, which warned Washington of “counter-measures.” The sale comes a month after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defiantly visited the self-governing democracy, prompting mainland …
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AT News Kabul: Former Kyrgyzstan president Roza Otunbayeva has been appointed as the new U.N. special envoy for Afghanistan, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced late Friday. Otunbayeva succeeds Deborah Lyons of Canada as head of the U.N. political mission in Afghanistan known as UNAMA. She will be in charge of the …
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AT News Kabul: A blast outside a mosque in the city of Herat in western Afghanistan on Friday killed at least 18 people including a high-profile pro-Taliban cleric in what authorities said was a suicide attack. “18 have been killed and 23 have been injured,” spokesman for the interior ministry …
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AT News Kabul: Locals in Zabul province are reporting the conflict between the Taliban and the Pakistani military in the province. According to local source the conflict took place in Zanzir area of Shamalzavi district of Zabul province. This conflict lasted for three hours, as a result of which 3 …
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AT News Kabul: Pakistani news sources have reported that the Ministry of Food of Pakistan has decided to issue a license to import onions and tomatoes in the next 24 hours. In this regard, the Pakistani newspaper “Dawn” has reported that the Ministry of Food Security of Pakistan has decided …
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AT News Kabul: Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, published a new report on the violation of the rights of Muslims in China on Wednesday. According to this report, China is accused of “seriously violating the human rights of Uighur Muslims” in the Xinjiang state, and …
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AT News Kabul: Officials in Ministry of Public Health of the Taliban Administration say that in the past month, 200 thousand mothers and children have visited health centers due to malnutrition. Sharaf Zaman, the spokesman of this ministry, told media: “In the month of August, nearly 200,000 nursing mothers and …
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AT News Kabul: Amnesty International has reported that Afghan migrants who try to reach safe places through Iran and Turkey have repeatedly faced harsh treatment, including “illegal shooting” by the border forces of these two countries. This report which titled “They don’t treat us like human beings” says that migrants, …
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AT News Kabul: Taliban leaders, including Mohammad Hassan Akhund, the prime minister, went to Bagram Airfield on Wednesday, August 31, to celebrate the day the last American soldiers left Afghanistan. Local sources in Parwan say that at the same time as this ceremony began; the services of telecommunication networks in …
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AT News Kabul: Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader who brought the Cold War to a peaceful end, has died aged 91. Mr Gorbachev, who took power in 1985, opened up the Soviet Union to the world and introduced a set of reforms at home. But he was unable to …
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