Ruchi Kumar

The em­bassy of the for­mer Afghan gov­ern­ment has shut­tered in New Del­hi amid al­le­ga­tions that In­dia stopped help­ing it.

Many re­main buried af­ter Sat­ur­day’s earth­quake in Afghanistan, as res­cue teams in­ten­si­fy ef­forts to dig out sur­vivors.

More than 2,000 dead as search con­tin­ues for those trapped un­der de­bris af­ter mag­ni­tude 6.3 earth­quake hits the na­tion.

Pre­vi­ous ef­forts to com­bat teen preg­nan­cies were met with suc­cess in Rwan­da, but that progress has now stag­nat­ed.

Mil­lions of Afghans who have left their coun­try since 2021 re­main stuck in lim­bo as they seek to reach West­ern na­tions.

Six mil­lion Afghans, the UN agency warns, are one step away from famine as it ap­peals for more funds for Afghanistan.

Matiul­lah Wesa, an ad­vo­cate for girls’ ed­u­ca­tion, is ar­rest­ed as the Tal­iban cracks down on women’s rights ac­tivists.

While a deal to ex­tract oil has raised hopes in the war-torn na­tion, ex­perts warn of Chi­na’s sketchy record.

In Tal­iban’s Afghanistan, Haz­ara cousins, both blast vic­tims who loved to read, in­spire a li­brary – and new read­ers.

Many provinces have seen an ex­cep­tion­al­ly cold win­ter, with tem­per­a­tures drop­ping to as low as -21 de­grees Cel­cius.