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India oi-Briti Roy Barman | Updated: Wednesday, August 26, 2020, 17:02 New Delhi, Aug 26: The entire continent of Africa was declared free of wild polio on Tuesday, as Nigeria became the last African country to be declared free of the disease. With this, polio now exists only ...

World09:06 GMT 26.08.2020Get short URLIn one of the deadliest terror attacks in the Indian region of Kashmir, a suicide bomber in an explosive-laden car rammed a convoy of troops in February 2019, killing 44 soldiers and injuring several more, raising tension with arch-rival Pakistan. India accused Pakistan of supporting ...

Kabul:Heavy flooding has killed at least 70 people and injured dozens of others as heavy seasonal rains drenched northern and eastern Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday.Spokesperson for northern Parwan province Wahida Shahkar said the number of casualties may rise as rescue teams work to locate people buried under destroyed houses. ...

Pakistan has urged the Taliban to start talks soon with the Afghan government to end decades of conflict, telling visiting officials of the group that an intra-Afghan dialogue could help ensure regional stability. The meeting between Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and a Taliban delegation on Tuesday came ...

Taliban insurgents set off a truck bomb on Tuesday in an attack on Afghan army commandos, killing three people and wounding 41, the defense ministry said, despite steps towards peace talks with the US-backed government.The Taliban claimed responsibility for the blast in the northern province of Balkh, saying on ...

Sign up to our Next Africa newsletter and follow Bloomberg Africa on TwitterEven as Africa grapples with the coronavirus pandemic, the continent has eradicated another disease: the wild polio virus.Africa was declared free of the wild poliovirus on Tuesday, with no new cases reported in the last four years, ...

KABUL, AfghanistanIllegal mining costs the Afghan government millions of dollars in revenue every year, the UN said Tuesday. In its latest National Human Development Report on mineral extraction in Afghanistan, the UN Development Program said the war-ravaged country could have collected over $100 million from minerals in royalties and export ...

KABUL, AfghanistanIllegal mining costs the Afghan government millions of dollars in revenue every year, the UN said Tuesday. In its latest National Human Development Report on mineral extraction in Afghanistan, the UN Development Program said the war-ravaged country could have collected over $100 million from minerals in royalties and export ...

#Pakistan News At least 12 people are dead and more than 40 wounded in attacks that come during a Taliban delegation visit to Pakistan to discuss starting Afghan peace talks. Relatives of the wounded react to news of the blast in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan on August 25, 2020. (Reuters) A ...

A high-level delegation from the Taliban's political office in Doha arrived in Pakistan on Monday to discuss the way forward in the Afghan peace process with the Pakistani leadership. The Taliban delegation led by their political chief Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar is visiting Islamabad at the invitation of the ...