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A 25-year-old Afghan national has been arrested and booked for staying in India without proper visa and passport, police said today. The accused, identified as Najok Mir, son of Wali Mohammad, from Badakhshan Province in Afghanistan, has also been booked for travelling without a ticket and misbehaving with a government …

Tens-of-thousands have had asylum applications denied as European countries expand measures to limit flow of refugees. Sweden intends to expel as many as 80,000 refugees and migrants who arrived in 2015 and whose applications for asylum have been rejected. “We are talking about 60,000 people, but the number could climb …

The mystery about the identity of the boy in the homemade football shirt that enchanted the internet appears to have been solved. BBC Trending has been told that the child who has become known as “Messi’s biggest fan” is actually five-year-old Murtaza Ahmadi from a rural area in Afghanistan. This …

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has promised to “bury” the Islamic State (IS) militant group, whose local offshoot has clashed with government forces and Taliban fighters. In a BBC interview, Mr Ghani said IS was “not an Afghan phenomenon” and its atrocities had “alienated the people”. “Afghans are now motivated by …

Millions of people across the eastern US are clearing up after the weekend’s massive snowstorm that virtually paralysed the region. They have been digging out their cars and clearing pathways of snow which reached 3ft (91cm) in five states. Public transport remains disrupted as the working week is set to …

At least one person killed in series of explosions in Indonesia’s capital, as gunfire rings out of central area. At least one policeman has been killed in a series of explosions in central Jakarta, Indonesian media reported, as gunfire rang out of the capital’s downtown area. Al Jazeera’s Step Vaessen, …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The US President Barack Obama said that Afghanistan, Pakistan, Middle East and some other regions might become havens for terrorist networks. President Obama in his last State of the Union speech to a joint session of Congress in Washington said that the United States’ foreign policy must …

The South Korean Met Agency had earlier reported a 5.1 magnitude earthquake near a nuclear test site in the North. North Korea said on Wednesday that it had conducted a successful hydrogen bomb test, hours after a 5.1 magnitude earthquake was detected near a known test site in the country. …

Rescuers in the city of Shenzhen pulled four people from the debris but at least 27 people remain missing. A landslide at an industrial park in southern China buried more than 20 buildings and left 27 people missing on Sunday, state media reported, as more than 1,500 emergency workers searched …

BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Dec 8, 2015 — The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff thanked service members and civilians here for their service in Afghanistan, saying their sacrifices have prevented another attack on the homeland. U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr. told troops in an airplane …