Afghanistan sends investigators to sift through ashes after blaze near Iran border

The Afghan government on Monday sent officials to the western province of Herat to investigate a blaze that tore through a ...

Britain pledges $227 mln annual civilian and food aid to Afghanistan

Britain said it will pledge $227 million in annual civilian and food aid for Afghanistan at a conference on Tuesday in Geneva where officials from about 70 countries and humanitarian organisations ...
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5 things to know for Sept. 2: Afghanistan, Sudan, Covid-19, Chicago, Mass shootings

President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he plans to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the highest civilian honor — to his former personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani was ...
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Coronavirus – Now is not the time to forget Afghanistan and its neighbours

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, urges greater support to Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, warning that leaving Afghans and their host communities behind will have ...
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Counting the costs of an apocalyptic news cycle

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. This isn’t to say, of course, that the coverage of these stories has been reduced to numbers, or that the ...