AT News KABUL: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced nearly $144 million in additional humanitarian assistance for the people of Afghanistan on Thursday. “As part of our enduring commitment to the people of Afghanistan, the United States announced today nearly $144 million in humanitarian assistance to those affected by …
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AT News KABUL: The United Nations has again sounded the alarm bells of extrajudicial killings across Afghanistan amid continuing reports of hangings, beheadings and public displays of corpses. Between August and November, we received credible allegations of more than 100 killings of former Afghan national security forces and others associated with the former …
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AT News KABUL: The UK’s Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) is launching a crisis appeal for Afghanistan where millions are on the brink of famine. Fifteen UK aid agencies – including Oxfam, Christian Aid, Islamic Relief and the British Red Cross – will join together to ask the public to donate. …
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AT News KABUL: The European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has said that engagement with the Taliban is necessary, but added that that it should be conditional. “Conditions for engagement include five benchmarks that EU had highlighted in September, and the Islamic Emirate should make progress on those benchmarks,” …
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AT News KABUL: Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the ongoing crisis in Afghanistan on Wednesday, amid a worsening humanitarian and economic turmoil in the war-ravaged country. The Chinese and Russian leaders conferred on Afghanistan in a virtual meeting Wednesday night, the China Global Television Network …
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AT News KABUL: China has delivered the second batch of its winter supplies to Afghanistan as part of its efforts to help the impoverished nation amid crippling economic crisis. Interim deputy minister of refugees and repatriation affairs, Arsala Kharoti, and Chinese Ambassador Wang Yu attended the handover ceremony at a …
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AT News KABUL: Central Bank said on Tuesday that it is taking measures to ensure the stability of the afghani, a day after a rapid 12 percent loss of its value against the dollar amid a deepening economic crisis and soaring inflation. The abrupt withdrawal of foreign aid following the …
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KABUL: The New Yorker Magazine in a lengthy report has shed light on the Afghan peace process – from its start in 2010 to the foreign forces’ withdrawal in August of this year. Titled ‘The Secret History of the US Diplomatic Failure in Afghanistan’, the report first narrates the attempts …
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AT News KABUL: The UK government is planning to allocate $99.5 million humanitarian aid to Afghanistan. UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss plans to allocate another batch of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, in the amount of 75 million pounds, the British Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office informs, reported Sputnik. The foreign office specified on Saturday that out of the total aid …
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AT News KABUL: Health staff at government and private hospitals has rung alarm bells over air pollution in Kabul, saying patients with respiratory illnesses are increasing by the day as the winter season begins. The air in Kabul becomes toxic every year because of the smoke from domestic heaters burning …
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