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3 more countries impose sanctions on Russia over Ukraine

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Australia, Canada and Japan have issued sanctions against Russia on Tuesday. The have joined the growing list of countries that have taken economic action after Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized two Ukrainian regions as independent states and moved Russian forces into eastern Ukraine.
Asia

Disabled Afghans call on Biden to return Afghan funds

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Scores of disabled persons staged a protest in Jalalabad in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar Province on Tuesday, urging the United States to return Afghan assets.
Asia

US says no progress in formation of inclusive govt. in Afghanistan

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US Special Representative for Afghanistan Thomas West says efforts for an inclusive government in Afghanistan have failed so far, but there has been progress about girls’ education.
Asia

General: Iran pursuing Helmand River water rights

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Iran’s top general says the country is actively pursuing its rights to water from the Helmand River on the border with Afghanistan.
Asia

Angry Afghans protesters call on US to return frozen assets

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Thousands of Afghans poured into the streets of Kabul on Tuesday to condemn the recent U.S. decision to freeze Afghan assets, calling the move as unjust and open stealing.
Asia

Taliban accuse US of breaking its promises

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The acting Afghan foreign minister has accused the United States of not following through on the commitments it made during the talks in Qatar’s Doha.
Asia

China: US plundering wealth of Afghanistan

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China has criticized Washington's allocation of Afghan assets to compensate the victims of 9/11 attacks. Beijing says the richest country in the world is blatantly plundering the wealth of the poorest.
Asia

Iranian interior minister in Pakistan for talks

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Iranian Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi is visiting Pakistan at the invitation of his Pakistani counterpart.
Asia

Karzai: Biden must hand Kabul assets over to Afghans

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Former Afghan President attacked Joe Biden’s decision over freezing Afghan assets. Hamid Karzai stressed that the US president must retreat his decision and hand over the property of the Afghan people back to them.
Asia

Azeri pres. unveils project to link Zangzur corridor to Iran, other countries

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The president of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has unveiled a project to build an energy supply line from the country to Iran and Turkey through Armenia.
Asia

Advocates call US freezing Afghan assets “theft”

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Activists describe US President Joe Biden’s decision to seize the Afghan central bank’s funds in the United States as “theft”.
Asia

Many killed, injured in blast outside mosque in Afghanistan

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At least eight people have been killed and 20 others wounded in an explosion in front of a mosque in Afghanistan’s northwestern Badghis Province on Friday, according to the Aamaj news agency.
Asia

Taliban say committed to Helmand River Treaty

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A spokesman for the Taliban says the group agrees to all the provisions of a treaty under which Iran and Afghanistan agreed to divide the water of Helmand River.
Asia

Iranian interior minister orders extension of Afghan poet’s visa

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Iran’s interior minister Ahmad Vahidi has instructed the director general for foreign nationals’ affairs to extend young Afghan poet Najib Barvar’s visa asap.
Asia

UN $32mn in cash arrives in Afghanistan

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Afghanistan’s Central Bank has announced that the United Nations’ batch of $32 million in cash arrived in Kabul on Tuesday.
Asia

Taliban reject UN report over Al-Qaeda operatives in Afghanistan

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The Taliban have rejected as baseless a report by the United Nations saying Al-Qaeda fighters are operating freely in Afghanistan.
Asia

Iran sends more humanitarian aid to Afghanistan

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Iran has dispatched another batch of much needed humanitarian aid to the needy people of Afghanistan.
Europe

EU eases sanctions on Afghanistan

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European Union has eased its sanctions against Afghanistan to let humanitarian aid into the country. Afghanistan is going through a humanitarian crisis and over half of its population is starving.
Asia

Pakistan says killed 20 rebels after deadly attacks

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The Pakistani military says it has killed at least 20 rebels in Balochistan Province after two army posts came under attacks in the southwestern region.
Asia

Pakistani troops, gunmen fighting after deadly checkpoint attacks

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Gunmen have killed at least four soldiers and a civilian in attacks on two security posts in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan within hours of each other, officials say. Pakistani forces are engaged in clearance operations.
Asia

Taliban fighters not allowed entering entertainment parks with weapons

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The Taliban have ordered its troops not to enter amusement parks while dressed in fatigues and armed with weapons.
Asia

Taliban reject UN report of ex-Afghan officials killings

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The Taliban have rejected a UN report alleging that over 100 officials and security forces of the previous Afghan government were killed by the group or its allies after the US withdrawal from the country.
Asia

Two Tajik citizens killed, ten injured in conflict with Kyrgyzstan

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Tajikistan’s State Committee for National Security reported two individuals were killed and ten wounded in an armed conflict on the border with Kyrgyzstan that began on Thursday.
Asia

Shooting reported between Kyrgyz, Tajik border troops

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A shooting erupted between border forces of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan on Thursday, the Kyrgyz border service said, adding that the Tajik side used mortars and grenades.
Asia

UN chief warns Afghanistan ‘hanging by thread’

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Afghanistan is "hanging by a thread", United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council on Wednesday. He called on the world countries to authorize all transactions needed to carry out humanitarian activities in the Taliban-ruled state.
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