At least 11 people have died in a fire incident in a café in Vietnam, with Hanoi police arresting a suspect, a media report said in Thursday. Reuters quoted Vietnamese interior ministry, officials as saying the incident took place inside café in the capital city. Hanoi police nabbed a man suspected of starting the deadly More
At least 50 people, including women and children, have been killed and 70 others wounded in two separate traffic accidents in southern Ghazni province, an official said on Thursday. Information and Culture Director Mullah Hamidullah Nisar told Pajhwok Afghan News the first accident took place after a 580-type bus collided with a fuel tanker on More
When family and social pressures prevented Majnun from marrying his beloved Layla, his heartbreak drove him to the wilderness, where he found solace among wild animals. The 7th-century Bedouin classic, Layla and Majnun, tells of his descent into madness — his name itself means “mad” — and his flight from the company of humans to animals who More
The opening One-Day International (ODI) between Afghanistan and Zimbabwe has been abandoned due to rain, says a media report. The match at the Harare Sports Club had to be called off after 9.2 overs of play on Tuesday, according to the Cricket website espncricinfo.com. Earlier, the game began nearly four behind schedule owing to persistent More
On the occasion of International Migrants Day, the European Union has said it stands with Afghan migrants, internally displaced persons, and returnees, providing support in areas such as education, employment, and improving their economic situation. December 18th marks World Migration Day. On X, the block wrote that every individual has the right to live in More
The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) has named an 18-member squad for the upcoming two-match Test series against Zimbabwe. Veteran leggie and T20 skipper Rashid Khan, who had last appeared in the format in March 2021 against the same opposition in Abu Dhabi, has returned to the squad. ACB said in a statement left-arm top-order batter More
A devastating cyclone ripped through the French Indian Ocean territory, leaving several hundred people dead in Mayotte. In the wake of the worst storm in almost a century, rescuers were trying to reach some communities as they searched for survivors, a media report said on Monday. The BBC said entire settlements were razed by Cyclone More
At least 53 Palestinians, including a journalist and rescue workers, have been killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza. An airstrike hit the civil emergency centre in the Nuseirat market area in the central Gaza Strip, killing Ahmed Al-Louh, a video journalist for Al Jazeera TV, and five other people, Reuters reported. Another strike on a More
The Khayber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government has imposed two percent sales tax on commercial goods imported by Afghan businessmen in violation to the Afghanistan Pakistan Transit Agreement (APTA), according to some businessmen in eastern Nangarhar province on Sunday. They said the two percent sales tax is an addition to several other problems they have been facing More
Germany has frozen Russian assets amounting to about 3.5 billion euros in line with the EU sanctions regime, says a media report. TASS quoted a source in the French Federal Ministry of Finance as saying: “Assets worth around 3.5 bln euro have been frozen or immobilized in Germany by now.” The assets include “blocked funds More
