Five people were killed in Afghanistan&s eastern Paktika province in a 4.3-magnitude earthquake on Friday morning, two days after another quake left over 1,000 people dead in the province.

Eleven others were injured in Friday&s temblor, which also hit Paktika&s Gayan district, local officials said.

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The United States has released an Afghan national, Assadullah Haroon, detained in the Guantanamo prison and handed him over to the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) in Kabul.

According to a statement issued by IEA spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid on Friday, Haroon was released after 15 years in the prison as a result of &efforts of the Islamic...

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Bayat Foundation has provided food packages, non-food items, shelter and medicines to victims of Wednesday&s deadly earthquake in Khost and Paktika provinces.

Foundation officials said a medical team from their organization has also been engaged in treating the injured and distributing medicine to the victims for the past two days.

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The largest Burmese python ever seen in Florida was caught by researchers who used another python to lure it out of its hiding place in the Everglades, National Geographic reported this week.

The gargantuan snake was a female, measuring nearly 5.4 meters long and weighing 97 kilograms, 13.6 kg more than the next-largest python ever found in the...

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Pakistan&s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif held a telephonic conversation with Afghanistan&s acting Prime Minister Mullah Muhammad Hassan Akhund late Thursday and shared details of Islamabad&s plans to provide emergency assistance to earthquake hit areas in Afghanistan.

According to a statement issued by the Pakistan embassy in...

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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has deployed food and logistics equipment to support communities devasted by the June 22 earthquake that struck near the city of Khost in Afghanistan.

According to WFP, 18 trucks have been deployed to the earthquake-affected areas carrying emergency supplies, including High Energy Biscuits (HEB) and...

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