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Afghanistan’s Kabul Airport is about 90% ready for operations but its re-opening is planned gradually, a Qatari official said speaking on the tarmac on Thursday.

Qatar’s foreign minister met his Iranian counterpart in Tehran on Thursday to discuss developments in Afghanistan, the Qatari diplomat and Iranian media said.

Ukraine said on Thursday that shelling from rebel-held areas in the east had wounded at least six troops and disrupted railway services, while the Russian-backed separatists said two civilians had … Read More

Lebanon’s caretaker minister of social affairs on Thursday announced the launch of cash subsidy cards for 500,000 families, saying that negotiations were under way for them to be partly funded … Read More

Ethiopia said on Thursday that rebellious forces from the Tigray region had been defeated in the adjacent Afar region and had withdrawn, but the Tigrayan forces said they had merely … Read More

A top Lebanese intelligence official said Wednesday the country would not deport six Syrians back to their war-torn homeland, after they were detained last month for smuggling themselves across the … Read More

Somalia’s two most powerful leaders were locked in a standoff on Wednesday after they named different men to head the intelligence service of the politically unstable nation in the Horn … Read More

The pound fell on the black market Thursday, trading at 18,850 to the dollar

Two Afghan journalists were left with ugly welts and bruises after being beaten and detained for hours by Taliban fighters for covering a protest in the Afghan capital.

Fourteen people have died in a fire at a hospital treating coronavirus patients in North Macedonia, authorities said on Thursday.