Efforts to reach communities in Afghanistan affected by the June 22 earthquake are being hampered by bad roads and heavy rain. The magnitude-6.1 quake is known to have killed at least 1,000 people and injured 1,500. The epicenter was 160 kilometers southeast of Kabul near the Pakistani border.
Last month, Jacobabad in Pakistan became the hottest city on Earth. Women in southern Pakistan and millions like them around the world are at the searing edge of climate change. Pregnant women exposed to heat for prolonged periods of time have a higher risk of suffering complications.
China and Pakistan share concern about "spillover effects of unilateral sanctions" on Russia over its war against Ukraine and called for a cease-fire and diplomatic resolution of the crisis, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on March 22.
India says it accidentally fired a missile into Pakistan and has ordered a high-level probe to investigate the matter.
Two Afghan brothers suspected of killing their sister for adopting a Western lifestyle went on trial in Berlin on March 2 in a case that highlights violence against women and cultural tensions among some recent migrants to Germany.
The executive board of the World Bank on March 1 approved a plan to use more than $1 billion from a frozen Afghanistan trust fund to finance urgently needed education, agriculture, health, and family programs, the bank announced.
The Taliban's announcement that it would restrict Afghans from leaving the country under certain circumstances has drawn concern from the United States and the United Kingdom this week amid fears it could hamper ongoing evacuation efforts.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan announced on February 28 a cut in petrol and electricity prices despite a steep rise in the global oil market, pledging to freeze the new rates until the next budget in June.
Protesting fishermen blockaded the port in Karachi, assembling their trawlers across the main channel to halt all traffic in and out of Pakistan's busiest port, officials said on February 23.
The United Nations children's agency will pay Afghan teachers a monthly stipend for at least two months, the organization said, as salaries remain unpaid for months amid an economic crisis in Afghanistan.
Hundreds of Afghan women have been leading protests in several cities across the country demanding the protection of rights for women and denouncing what they say is Pakistan's support for the Taliban takeover. At a Kabul protest on September 7, Taliban gunmen fired in the air.
A rally in central Paris on September 5 voiced support for the plight of Afghanistan's women. An estimated 200 people, including expatriate Afghans and French supporters of aid groups, condemned the human rights violations reported from Afghanistan after the Taliban seized power in mid-August.
The Taliban used tear gas and warning shots to disperse a march for women's rights on September 4 in Kabul. A group of men were seen debating with the protesters before an armed unit cracked down on the march. Dozens of Afghan women have recently braved the Taliban's wrath by holding rallies.
Afghans took to the street in the capital on August 28 to protest banks that have largely been shuttered in Kabul since the Taliban takeover. (Reuters)
Two explosions suspected of being suicide bombs rocked the airport in Kabul on August 26, killing several people, including children and a number of U.S. soldiers.
In a sign of growing desperation, Afghan families have been seen handing their babies and small children to soldiers at Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport in the hope of saving them from Taliban rule and getting them on flights out of the Afghan capital. [Warning: Disturbing images]
In a symbolic challenge to Taliban rule, Afghans unfurled the black, red, and green national flag to mark their nation’s independence day on August 19. Several people were reportedly killed in the city of Asadabad when Taliban fighters fired on people waving the flag.
Afghan women have reacted with skepticism to a promise by the Taliban that it would respect their rights "within the limits of Islam." Members of the militant group made the comments during their first press conference after seizing the Afghan capital, Kabul.
Current Time freelance reporter Liza Karimi describes life on the streets of Taliban-controlled Kabul, three days after the militants first entered the Afghan capital. She says many people -- especially women -- remain fearful, despite Taliban reassurances.
Afghans poured onto the tarmac at Hamid Karzai airport in Kabul on August 16 in a desperate bid to flee the Taliban. Video posted on social media showed chaotic scenes of people clinging to a U.S. military jet as it took off to evacuate diplomatic staff.
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