FAIZABAD, Afghanistan, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) — Heavy rainfall that triggered avalanches and flash flood has inflicted property damages and rendered scores of people homeless in northern Afghanistan, a provincial official said Sunday. Mawlawi Mohammad Akram Akbari, provincial government...
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Tunisian President Kais Saied on Thursday dissolved municipal councils months before they were due to be elected, further dismantling the systems of government developed after the 2011 revolution that brought democracy. The municipal councils will be replaced by “special...
It’s been almost two years since the U.S. left Afghanistan and one Afghan family living in Chicago has been torn apart, for just as long. Their two children were left behind as refugees rushed to escape the Taliban. But as CBS 2’s Sabrina Franza reported Friday night, a long...
Well-known Kazakh businessmen Kenes Rakishev and Vyacheslav Kim (both in the Top 10 richest businessmen according to Forbes Kazakhstan) announced their intention to create a new venture fund based on the International Financial Center in Astana (Kazakhstan). “The...
CAIRO – Egypt, one of the world’s largest wheat importers, has given notice it will withdraw at the end of June from a decades-old U.N. grains treaty, causing consternation among some other signatories to the convention. Egypt’s departure from the multinational Grains...