Ukraine says it shot down 36 Iranian-made drones in overnight Russian attack
Zelenskiy said it had been an ‘uneasy night’ but commended the work of air defenses in shooting down all drones launched in the attack...
Former Pakistan PM Khan ready to form negotiating committee, hold talks with authorities
He said if that committee was convinced the matter could be resolved by him stepping aside from politics or from not holding snap elections, he would comply....
Amu 8pm News 24 May 2023
Six people were flogged in public at Kandahar City’s stadium on Wednesday on charges of sodomy and running away with a married woman, sources confirmed....
Comer slams Biden Administration for ‘obstructing’ probe into Afghanistan withdrawal
Oversight Committee chairman James Comer sent a letter to White House officials urging them not to ‘flout accountability to the American people’...
Parisians applaud France’s short-haul domestic flight ban, a ‘world first’
The ban prohibits flights between cities reachable by train in less than 2 hours and 30 minutes including flights from Paris to Bordeaux and Lyon...
Aid chief urges Taliban to give time frame on reversing ban on women NGO staff
Egeland says Taliban leaders in Kandahar state ‘guidelines’ on allowing women to return to work and girls to school are ‘nearly completed’...
Bodies of 18 migrants from Afghanistan found dead in Bulgaria brought to Kabul
Eight of the victims are from Nangarhar, one from Kunar, one from Kapisa, two from Maidan Wardak, one from Logar and five from Kabul....
UN rights chief asks Sudan’s generals to stop ‘senseless violence’
Fighting in Sudan that broke out more than a month ago has killed hundreds of civilians and forced more than one million people to flee the violence....