Ministry of Public Health officials said on Monday that a team of ophthalmologists from the Alkhidmat Foundation in Pakistan are in Kabul to perform eye surgery on Afghans in need. 

Officials said they estimate they will perform about 500 surgeries which will be done for free.

According to the ministry, among the procedures that will be carried...

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The governor of the State of New York Kathy Hochul late on Friday declared an emergency in the state over the continued spread of monkeypox.

&I am declaring a State Disaster Emergency to strengthen our ongoing efforts to confront the monkeypox outbreak,& Hochul tweeted. 

She added that more than one in four monkeypox cases in the...

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A group of Afghan military cadets returned home this weekend after completing a training course in India. 

About two dozen cadets passed their course at the Indian Military Academy (IMA) in Dehradun on June 11.

According to a statement issued by the Afghan defense ministry, the cadets returned after they were assured of their safety and...

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The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) has confirmed that one of its soldiers was killed and another one wounded on Sunday when Iranian border forces opened fire along the border fence in Nimroz province.

The Nimroz department of Information and Culture said in a statement the incident occurred when the Iranian border forces fired at an IEA...

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The interior ministry has confirmed that a rocket hit a residential house in Sherpur, close to Kabul city center, at about 6am Sunday.

The Interior Ministry&s spokesman Abdul Nafi Takour confirmed the incident but said no casualties had been reported.

&It was a rocket attack this morning on a residential house in Sherpur area of Kabul...

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A Chinese rocket fell back to Earth on Saturday over the Indian Ocean but NASA said Beijing had not shared the &specific trajectory information& needed to know where possible debris might fall.

US Space Command said the Long March 5B rocket re-entered over the Indian Ocean at approximately 16:45 GMT, but referred questions about...

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