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Asia

53% of Afghans desiring to leave country: Gallup poll

IFP Media Wire -
As the global attention has shifted from Afghanistan to the Ukraine crisis and the refugees of the country, Afghanistan has showcased a shocking number with 53 percent of the population desiring to leave their own country and seek refuge elsewhere, according to a Gallup poll.
Asia

At least 15 wounded in Kabul blast

IFP Media Wire -
An explosion in the center of the Afghan capital of Kabul on Sunday wounded at least 15 people, according to witnesses.
Asia

UN chief: 95% of Afghans do not have enough food

IFP Media Wire -
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned some 95 percent of people in Afghanistan do not have enough to eat and millions are at risk of famine.
Asia

Chinese FM in Afghanistan ahead of neighbors meeting

IFP Media Wire -
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in Kabul on Thursday, a Taliban official confirmed. It comes a week before Beijing hosts a meeting of Afghanistan's neighbours to explore ways of helping the country following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.
Asia

UN says Afghan girls school suspension ‘deeply damaging’

IFP Media Wire -
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated that Taliban's decision to suspend high school for girls in Afghanistan was "a profound disappointment and deeply damaging for Afghanistan."
Asia

Taliban order girls’ schools shut

IFP Editorial Staff -
The Taliban have shut down girls’ school in Afghanistan.
Asia

Taliban ban Afghan national flag

IFP Media Wire -
The Taliban have issued a decree on Sunday officially banning the internationally-recognized Afghan tricolor flag and replacing it with the so-called Islamic Emirate flag used by the group.
Asia

Taliban accuse US of breaking its promises

IFP Media Wire -
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

IFP Media Wire -
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

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

Advocates call US freezing Afghan assets “theft”

IFP Media Wire -
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

IFP Media Wire -
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

UN $32mn in cash arrives in Afghanistan

IFP Media Wire -
Afghanistan’s Central Bank has announced that the United Nations’ batch of $32 million in cash arrived in Kabul on Tuesday.
Europe

EU eases sanctions on Afghanistan

IFP Media Wire -
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.
Americas

Leaked documents show US failures in Afghanistan

IFP Media Wire -
Leaked notes from a White House Situation Room meeting the day before Kabul fell shed new light on just how unprepared the US administration was to evacuate Afghan nationals who'd helped Washington in its 20-year war.
Media Wire

UN: Dozens of ex-Afghan officials purportedly killed since Taliban takeover

IFP Media Wire -
The United Nations announced it has received “credible allegations” that more than 100 members of the ousted Afghan government, its security forces and those who worked with international troops have been killed since the Taliban took over on 15 August.
Sport

Afghan girl robotics team secure second place in Intl. competition

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Afghanistan’s all-girls robotic team, known as the Afghan Dreamers", came in second place out of 88 countries in the “PCBe the Change” world competition sponsored by Upverter Education, Ardunio and the IPC Education Foundation.
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.
Asia

Several killed, injured in Afghanistan blast

IFP Media Wire -
At least seven people have been killed and nine others wounded in a bomb blast on a minibus in the western Afghan city of Heart.
Asia

More than two dozen killed in Afghanistan earthquake

IFP Media Wire -
At least 26 people have been killed in an earthquake hitting western Afghanistan, officials announced.
Media Wire

Afghan journalists say unable to cover stories independently

IFP Media Wire -
National Union of Afghanistan Journalists reported 95 percent of the country’s media staff have the problem of access to information and cannot cover stories independently.
Asia

Deadly blast rocks Afghanistan’s Bagram district

IFP Media Wire -
At least two children were killed and several others wounded in an explosion near Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul.
Asia

‘Afghanistan not to pose threat to other countries’

IFP Media Wire -
Acting Afghanistan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi says the new government is exercising power over the whole country, and the Islamic Emirate-led government will not pose a threat to any country in the world.
Asia

Blast kills 9 minors in eastern Afghanistan

IFP Media Wire -
Nine children were killed and four others injured in an explosion near a school in eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar.
Asia

Iran says to transfer wheat, vaccines to Afghanistan

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Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian says the Islamic Republic will help with transfer of aid including from other countries to Afghanistan in the form of wheat, medicine and Covid vaccine.
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