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GHAZNI CITY (Pajhwok): More than 1,300 returning Afghan refugee families on Friday received cash assistance from the Afghan Red Crescent Society in Ghazni province.

Many children in Kabul are deprived of school and recreation due to household responsibilities and work in the markets, despite education, play and healthy development being their fundamental rights.

About 120 tribal feuds and family clashes have been resolved in northern Jawzjan province in the past nine months through mediation efforts by officials, religious scholars and local elders.

A two-year feud between two families in Dara district of central Panjsher province has been resolved through mediation by religious scholars, tribal elders and local officials, an official said on Saturday.

More than 5,000 Afghan refugees have been deported from neighbouring Pakistan and Iran in a single day, an official said Saturday.

The Government of Japan has decided to provide $19.5 million in additional assistance to Afghanistan, aimed at supporting humanitarian sectors and meeting basic human needs.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya has confirmed the killing of Raad Saad, the group’s second-in-command in Gaza, in an Israeli strike on Saturday.

Cash assistance has been distributed to more than 600 internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees, people with disabilities, widows and other vulnerable families in the centre and districts of northwestern Nimroz province.

HERAT CITY (Pajhwok): The Shia Scholars’ Council in western Herat province says unity and solidarity among the country’s ethnic groups have increased compared to the past.

KABUL (Pajhwok): The European Union has provided 25 million euros to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to strengthen communities in Afghanistan and promote nutritious diets.

A twelfth shipment of humanitarian aid from Turkey has arrived in western Herat province, an official announced on Wednesday.

The Ministry of Interior (MoI) says police have impounded 1,200 single-key and undocumented vehicles over the past week in different parts of Kabul city.