Tahira, a mother of five disabled children lives in a hut in Kabul’s Chihildukhtaran area and has been grappling with extreme poverty and hunger.

The first phase of Kharwar Dam project in central Logar province, aimed at maintenance and monitoring of the dam, has been completed at a cost of nearly 31 million afghanis.

The Kabul Municipality has launched the distribution of coal at a subsidised rate of 6,500 afghanis per ton, about 50 percent less than the current market price of 12,500 afs.

The Netanyahu administration has green-lighted a plan to encourage the expansion of settlements in the occupied Golan Heights.

Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Amir Khan Muttaqi and his Turkmen counterpart Rashid Meredov have discussed various issues, including the acceleration of work on the TAPI gas pipeline project in Afghanistan, and provision of transit and visa facilities.

One individual has been killed and nine others have been injured as a result of traffic accidents in central Maidan Wardak and Bamyan provinces, officials said on Monday.

At least 53 Palestinians, including a journalist and rescue workers, have been killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza.

A devastating cyclone ripped through the French Indian Ocean territory, leaving several hundred people dead in Mayotte.

With the arrival of winter and increasing problem of electricity shortage in western Herat province, the market for Sandali or chair-making and their sale has become the most thriving business in the province.

Spending their own money, residents of the Malistan district of southern Ghazni province have launched construction work on a dam at a cost of one million US dollars.

At least 32 miners were trapped after a coalmine collapsed in Dar-e-Soaf district of northern Samangan province, an official said on Sunday.

Construction and reconstruction work was initiated on a 15-kilometre road and a bridge in Nurgram district of eastern Nuristan province on Sunday, an official announced.