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Uzbekistan, Afghanistan Zero In On Deepening Economic And Regional Partnerships
MENAFN
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July 11, 2025
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, July 11 . Baxtiyor Saidov, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan, held a meeting with Abdul Ghafar Terawi, Ambassador of Afghanistan to Uzbekistan, Trend reports. “We addressed pressing...
RUSSIA BECOMES THE FIRST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD TO RECOGNIZE TALIBAN GOVERNMENT
Zambian Observer
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July 11, 2025
By CIC International Affairs. RUSSIA BECOMES THE FIRST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD TO RECOGNIZE TALIBAN GOVERNMENT. In a landmark move with far-reaching geopolitical implications, Russia has become the first country to officially recognize the...
Business and Politics Are Not the Same, But the America Party Seems to Think They Are
American Greatness
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July 7, 2025
As America watched President Trump sign his “Big Beautiful Bill” into law on Independence Day 2025, his erstwhile soulmate, Elon Musk, had other ideas. Offended by the prospect of the “BBB” adding to our national debt, and perhaps offended that...
Wait until she’s 9: Why Taliban asked 45-year-old Afghan ‘groom’ to hold off marriage with 6-year-old
Firstpost
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July 11, 2025
A 45-year-old man, who is already married to two women, took a six-year-old girl as his ‘bride’ after he bought her from her father in Afghanistan. The man paid the child’s family for the marriage, which happened in the country’s Marjah district,...
Fact-check: KTR stokes row over cultural map gift by BJP leader to Lokesh — an older illustration, not political
Organiser Weekly
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A recent gesture by Andhra Pradesh BJP’s newly-appointed State President PVN Madhav has sparked an online controversy, with political undertones. After assuming office, Madhav gifted a large framed portrait to AP Minister Nara Lokesh. The...
Iran expels half a million Afghans in 16-day stretch since recent conflict with Israel, UN says
Yahoo News
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More than half a million Afghans have been expelled from Iran in the 16 days since the conflict with Israel ended, according to the United Nations, in what may be one of the largest forced movements of population this decade. For months, Tehran...
Russia First to Recognise Afghan Taliban
The Nation
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July 11, 2025
Russia has become the first country to officially recognise the Afghan Taliban government, following their takeover of Kabul in August 2021 and the subsequent withdrawal of U.S. forces after two decades of war. Since 2022, the Taliban-led Islamic...
Iran expels half a million Afghans in 16-day stretch since recent conflict with Israel, UN says
CNN
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July 11, 2025
CNN — More than half a million Afghans have been expelled from Iran in the 16 days since the conflict with Israel ended, according to the United Nations, in what may be one of the largest forced movements of population this decade. For months,...
Outrage after Afghan man, 45, marries 6yo child bride as Taliban say he can’t have her until she’s nine
The West Australian
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July 11, 2025
A 45-year-old Afghan man has caused global outrage after he married a six-year-old girl. The man, who already has two wives, reportedly paid the little girl’s family money to take her as his bride. Hasht-e Subh Daily, an independent Afghan media...
Donald Trump or Al Capone? The alarming rise of America’s gangster politics
Weekly Blitz
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July 10, 2025
In his second term in the White House, Donald Trump is increasingly exhibiting characteristics reminiscent of a mafia boss rather than a democratic statesman. His behavior, marked by threats, vendettas, and political bullying, more closely mirrors...
A Persian in the Ranks: Rethinking Military Culture through the Life of a Forgotten Civil War Sharpshooter
Small Wars Journal
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July 11, 2025
In military history, the West often casts itself as having invented the clean, decisive, and morally superior way of war. From Victor Davis Hanson to popular portrayals of elite modern forces, the story is familiar: Western armies fight in fair,...
World News | WHO Warns of Rising Spread of Infectious Diseases Among Deported Afghan Migrants, Calls for Increasing Medical Resources
Latestly
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July 11, 2025
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 11 (ANI): The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued a warning regarding the rising spread of infectious diseases among Afghan migrants deported from neighbouring nations amid poor sanitary conditions, Khaama Press...
In ‘Cinema Jazireh,’ a Woman Dresses up as a Man in Taliban Afghanistan in Search of Her Son, Hope
The Hollywood Reporter - California
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July 10, 2025
Afghanistan under the rule of the Taliban is the setting of Cinema Jazireh, Turkish filmmaker Gözde Kural’s second feature. She wrote, directed and also edited, together with Bünyamin Bayansal, the film, which is world premiering in the Crystal...
Russia returns to Afghanistan
Business Recorder
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July 10, 2025
EDITORIAL: The irony could not be more exquisite. Russia has become the first country to formally recognise the Taliban regime in Afghanistan — three decades after the Soviet Union was bled out of the same country by the Taliban’s ideological...
Bradford NHS team supports health research in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Telegraph & Argus
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Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust has played a key role in the international project, aimed supporting mental and physical health in the two countries. The initiative is part of a wider programme funded by the National Institute for...
Digging Deeper: Kazakhmys Barlau’s Plan for Exploration, Talent, and Afghanistan’s Geology
The Astana Times
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July 11, 2025
ASTANA — President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has set an ambitious national goal: to bring the level of Kazakhstan’s subsoil exploration to 2.2 million square kilometers. To put that in perspective, this is larger than the entire area of Saudi Arabia....
Bizarre tourism video invites Americans to visit Afghanistan
The Independent (U.S.)
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July 9, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
San Diego contestant on 'The Great American Recipe' shares his Afghan food and roots
KPBS - California
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July 10, 2025
"The Great American Recipe" season 4 premieres this weekend — you can begin streaming it Friday on the PBS app, or watch Mondays at 9 p.m. on KPBS-TV beginning July 14. The PBS show "The Great American Recipe" follows a group of home cooks as they...
Afghans divided on Russia’s Taliban recognition
The News International
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Russia's decision to formally recognise the Taliban government has been seen as an opening for a stronger economy by some Afghans, while others were sceptical that it would improve their lot. Russia became the first country to acknowledge the...
Afghan man, 45, 'marries girl aged SIX before Taliban intervene... and say he must wait until she is NINE'
Daily Mail
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July 6, 2025
A six-year-old girl has allegedly been forced to marry a 45-year-old man in Afghanistan after she was given away for money. The haunting photo of an older man and a little girl standing together horrified even the Taliban, who intervened with the...