Afghanistan

An extremely rare &dinosaur& bird, the only one of its kind in the United Kingdom, is patiently waiting for a lifelong mate to help save her entire species.

Abou, the female shoebill, recently arrived at Exmoor Zoo in Devon, England, as part of an international breeding program to save her species.

The unique-looking bird is just one of...

Eight people were injured when a hand grenade was thrown at a religious seminary in Afghanistan&s eastern Nangarhar province early Saturday, police said.

The attack targeted Osman Zu-noorain Madrassa in Zino village of Rodat district around 1:00a.m., said Abdul Basir Zabuli, a spokesman for Nangarhar police.

He said that police immediately...

Rina Amiri, the United States& special envoy for Afghan women, girls and human rights, said on Saturday she avoided joining her colleagues in meeting a delegation of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) officials in Qatari capital Doha.

This week, a US delegation led by Thomas West, the special envoy for Afghanistan, met with an IEA...

Russia flattened part of an apartment building while residents slept on Friday in missile attacks near Ukraine&s Black Sea port of Odessa that killed at least 21 people, hours after Russian troops abandoned a nearby outpost at Snake Island.

Neighbors in the resort village of Serhiivka helped workers comb through the rubble of the nine-storey...