As many as 250 Afghan refugees, who had been stranded in heavy snow and storms in the Khorasan Razavi province of Iran, have been rescued and sent to their homeland.
All key routes in central Bamyan province were reopened on Tuesday, 24 hours after they were blocked by heavy snowfall and storms, local officials said.
The bodies of two Afghan migrants have been recovered on the northern coast of France as police arrested six others, including Afghans, for investigations, reports said on Tuesday.
Two girls have died and a man hospitalised due to coal suffocation in the Nijrab district of central Kapisa province, police official said on Thursday.
Prince Karim Aga Khan, leader of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) and the spiritual leader of the Ismaili community, has passed away at the age of 88 in Lisbon, Portugal.
More than 40 lost their lives and 259 others were wounded as a result of traffic accidents in central Logar province over the last one year, an official said on Monday.
