Indonesian government has blocked search engine website Yahoo, payments firm Paypal and several gaming websites due to failure to comply with licensing rules, Reuters reported on Saturday.

Registration is required under rules released in late November 2020 and will give authorities broad powers to compel platforms to disclose data of certain users,...

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Afghanistan and Pakistan are likely to agree on development of a multimodal air-to-road corridor for Afghan transit trade in a bid to boost trade between the two countries, the Express Tribune reported on Friday.

The two sides have proposed this addition to the revised Afghanistan Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement (APTTA).

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The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) will soon let Afghan girls of above sixth grade go to school, an influential Pakistani religious scholar said after visiting Kabul.

&In our meeting with the Afghan Taliban (IEA), we stressed that you must open girls& schools and colleges so they can get education. I gave them my example and told...

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Western countries including the United States don&t want Afghanistan to remain in isolation as they have their own interests in having presence here, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, deputy foreign minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) said this week.

&Their governments are now convinced to return to Afghanistan because...

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Spain reported its first death related to monkeypox outbreak on Friday, in what is thought to be Europe&s first death from the disease and only the second outside of Africa.

Brazil reported earlier on Friday the first monkeypox-related death outside the African continent in the current wave of the disease, Reuters reported.

According to a...

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Four people were injured when an explosive device was detonated at Kabul International Cricket Stadium on Friday.

The blast happened during the 22nd match of Shpageeza Cricket League, a domestic T20 tournament.

Naseeb Khan, chief executive of the Afghanistan Cricket Board, confirmed the explosion and said that four spectators were wounded in the...

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