Uzbekistan has tightened its health controls at border crossing with Afghanistan amid a cholera outbreak in Helmand and Zabul provinces. 

According to Uzbek media reports, Uzbekistan&s Service for Sanitary and Epidemiological Welfare and Public Health has set up 54 sanitary and quarantine points at border crossings around the country.

Thes...

Write comment (95 Comments)

Acting Interior Minister, Sirajuddin Haqqani, has called on the world to recognize the new government of Afghanistan based on international and Islamic laws and Afghan traditions.

While addressing clerics and tribal elders at a gathering on Saturday in Khost province of Afghanistan, Haqqani described diplomatic ties with countries around the world...

Write comment (94 Comments)

Three new dams are being built in the southern Afghanistan province of Kandahar in a bid to ease an acute water shortage after years of drought.

China&s Xinhua News Agency reported the dams are being built in Shah Walikot and Spin Boldak districts.

The dam in Spin Boldak district will reportedly hold up to 2.3 million cubic meters of water and...

Write comment (91 Comments)

India has administered two billion doses of the COVID-19 vaccine so far under the nationwide vaccination drive, with Minister of Health and Family Welfare Dr Mansukh Mandaviya stating Sunday it&s &a day to remember forever&.

India had administered one billion doses in October last year & in just over nine months since the...

Write comment (94 Comments)

Afghanistan&s acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi met with Malaysia&s Special Adviser for Afghanistan Dato Ahmad Azam Ab Rahman and his accompanying delegation on Sunday to discuss bilateral relations and trade.

In a statement issued by the ministry, the two sides discussed trade and economic relations; the banking sector;...

Write comment (99 Comments)

A summer heatwave that has triggered devastating forest fires across southwest Europe showed no signs of abating Sunday, as parts of the continent readied for new temperature records over the next few days.

Firefighters in France, Portugal, Spain and Greece are battling forest blazes that have ravaged thousands of acres of land and killed several...

Write comment (97 Comments)