Recent heavy rainfalls in two districts in Takhar province have destroyed bridges, roads and culverts as well as water canals used by local farmers, officials reported.

According to residents, thousands of families have been affected by the destruction caused and now have a severe shortage of drinking water and irrigation water.

These residents have...

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Russia opened fire with artillery, multiple rocket launchers and tanks around Ukraine&s second-largest city Kharkiv and shelled cities in the east, where an earlier strike killed 15 people in an apartment building, Ukraine&s general staff said on Monday.

An apartment building in Kharkiv was hit by a missile overnight, but no casualties...

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North Korea fired what appeared to be multiple rocket launchers Sunday, Seoul said, the latest in a series of provocations by the nuclear-armed nation to heighten tensions in the region.

The South Korean military detected &flight trajectories& that were suspected to be shots from North Korean artillery, Seoul&s Joint Chiefs of...

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A number of Kabul University students raised their concerns on Sunday and said in addition to a shortage of lecturers and professors, they also have very little purified drinking water and that hostel accommodation is overcrowded.

The students say that many professors have left the country and those who are now teaching do not all have the...

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Shanghai has discovered a COVID-19 case involving a new subvariant Omicron BA.5.2.1, an official told a briefing on Sunday, signalling the complications China faces to keep up with new mutations as it pursues its &zero-COVID& policy.

The case, found in the financial district of Pudong on July 8, was linked with a case from overseas,...

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Health officials in Helmand province said Sunday that 20 people died in the past 24 hours of cholera and a further 120 have been infected. 

Citing Helmand health officials, Bakhtar News Agency reported the cholera outbreak was reported in Baghran district. 

Mobile health teams have been sent from the provincial capital to the ...

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