Expedition work has recently begun on the territory of Afghanistan to determine the route and feasibility study of the joint project of Uzbekistan, Pakistan and Afghanistan to establish the &Termez-Peshawar& railway, Uzbek news website Kun.uz reported on Tuesday.

The estimated cost of the Termez & Mazar-i-Sharif & Kabul...

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China&s government on Tuesday warned that it would take &forceful measures& if U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan, after the Financial Times said she would go to the Chinese-claimed island next month.

Pelosi and her delegation will also visit Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore, and spend time...

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No one was injured when a transformer at Hoover Dam briefly caught fire Tuesday morning, officials said.

&There are no injuries to visitors or employees. There is no risk to the power grid and power is still being generated from the powerhouse,& Jacklynn L. Gould, the Bureau of Reclamation&s regional director for the Lower...

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Pakistani and Chinese officials on Monday discussed the possibility of Afghanistan joining the multibillion-dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) infrastructure project.

The idea to extend CPEC, the central part of the Belt and Road Initiative, was discussed during a meeting between China&s special envoy on Afghanistan Yue Xiayong...

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The world&s largest and most powerful space telescope by NASA, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), has suffered massive damage from a micrometeoroid strike in late May, Forbes magazine reported on Monday.

In a new paper published in the wake of Webb&s incredible first images last week, a group of scientists outlined the performance of...

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At least 20 people were injured and 600 houses were damaged in Monday&s 5.1-magnitude earthquake in Khost&s Spera and Paktika&s Giyan districts, the Ministry of State for Disaster Management said on Tuesday.

Mohammad Nasim Haqqani, the ministry&s spokesman, said that fortunately there were no deaths caused by the earthquake.

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