Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced his government will legislate a ban on the use of social media for children under 16 years of age. According to Reuters, Albanese told a press conference: “This step will be taken for the parents of children. Social media is doing harm to our kids and I’m calling More
The Spanish government has announced an 11.6 billion US dollars aid package for flood victims, a media report said on Wednesday. At least 89 people remain missing after deadly floods ravaged eastern Spain, the regional judicial authorities in Valencia said on Tuesday. Reuters quoted Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez as saying he was earmarking 10.6 billion More
A fatal fire killed three people, injured 33 others and reduced to ashes 12 companies, 64 houses, 55 shops and 12 vehicles in Paghman district of Kabul province on Wednesday. In a statement, the disasters management department said based on survey of evaluation teams, three people had been killed and 33 injured due to the More
Republican candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday defeated Vice President Kamala Harris to secure a second term in the White House, Fox News reported. The 2024 election was a “movement never seen before”, a triumphant Trump told supporters at an election watch event in Palm Beach, Florida With more than 90 percent of the ballots counted, More
Explosions and gunfire hit Afghan migrants at the Iran-Pakistan border, suggests preliminary investigations by the Taliban. It said two dead bodies and 34 eyewitnesses, including some injured individuals, had been transferred to the country so far. On October 15, an Iran-based human rights organisation claimed Iranian border guards shot dead a large number of Afghan More
Amid a search for the missing people, the death toll from Spain’s deadliest floods in decades has soared to 95, reports CNN. Spain’s Minister of Territorial Policy Angel Victor Torres was quoted as saying 92 people were killed in the worst-hit region of Valencia,. Two deaths were reported from Castile-La-Mancha and from Andalusia, as heavy More
Three security personnel, including an army major, and eight alleged militants have been killed in the Bannu district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The killings occurred in a shootout in the Bakka Khel area of the volatile district, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Wednesday. A statement from the army’s media wing said the More
Afghanistan-A have returned to Kabul after clinching the ACC Emerging T20 Teams Asia Cup title, the board announced on Tuesday. The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) wrote on its Facebook page the triumphant national squad landed in Kabul this morning. The ACC Emerging Teams T20 Asia Cup, featuring eight teams, was played in Oman. Afghanistan-A, Pakistan-A, More
In a paradoxical step, Israeli lawmakers have passed legislation banning the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency (Unrwa) from operating in the Jewish state and Israeli-controlled East Jerusalem. Also banning contact between Unrwa employees and Israeli officials, the proposed laws would drastically curtail the UN agency’s ability to work in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the More
The Afghanistan under-17 national football team secured berth in the 2025 AFC Asia Cup by defeating Bangladesh. In their final match of the qualifiers, the national team triumphed over Bangladesh with a score of 3-2. The match took place at 1:30 PM today (Sunday), and Afghanistan finished as the group leader with 12 points from More
