Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif imposed a total ban on the export of sugar on Monday and said action would be taken against anyone found to be hoarding or smuggling the commodity.

According to Pakistan media reports, this is in a bid to stabilise the price of sugar ice by making a higher amount of the commodity available in the domestic market.

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President Joe Biden was not happy with leaks to news outlets in which U.S. intelligence appeared to take credit for helping Ukraine target a Russian ship and Russian generals in Ukraine, White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters on Monday.

&The president was displeased with the leaks. His view was that it was an overstatement of...

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Almost half of Afghanistan&s population & 19.7 million & are facing acute hunger according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis conducted in January and February this year by food security cluster partners of the United Nations.

The report, published on Monday, predicts that the outlook for...

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Russian President Vladimir Putin evoked the memory of Soviet heroism in World War Two on Monday (May 9) to urge his army towards victory in Ukraine but acknowledged the cost in Russian lives as he pledged to help the families of fallen soldiers.

Addressing massed ranks of service personnel on Red Square on the 77th anniversary of victory over Nazi...

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Balkh Security Chief Abdul Hai Abed said Monday that Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) security forces have rescued a 13-year-old Nangarhar boy in Mazar-e-Sharif and returned him to his family.

&Thirteen year old Ehsanullah, who was abducted by kidnappers two days ago in Surkhrod district of Nangarhar province, was released from the...

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Recent rain across a large part of Afghanistan has helped increase the level of Salma Dam in Herat province, enabling authorities to activate all three power-generating turbines.

According to local officials, 80 cubic meters of water is flowing through the floodgates per second since last week&s rain.

Officials said that not only is the water...

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