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Indoor social gatherings will be restricted to 50 people, with mandatory mask wearing and tracer-app scanning in many venues.

The family said that the local Taliban had promised to investigate the incident

A photo published on Twitter and Instagram shows the 39-year-old transportation secretary and his spouse, Chasten, sitting in what appears to be a hospital room, each cradling a baby and smiling.

Taliban and opposition forces battled on Saturday to control the Panjshir Valley north of Kabul, the last Afghan province holding out against the militant group, as the top U.S. general warned of a "civil war" if the Islamists failed to consolidate power.

New Zealand has tried for years to deport the knifewielding militant who wounded seven people at a mall in Auckland last week, the government said after it released more details on the attacker following the lifting of a court suppression order.

One after another, storm evacuees in Manville, a central New Jersey town along the rainswollen Raritan River, told the same story: an urgent latenight knock on the door, a wall of water crashing into their apartments, being rescued by boat and taken to hi...

Gazas ruling Hamas militant group on Friday said it recovered the bodies of three men from a smuggling tunnel along the Egyptian border.

China's embassy in Kabul remains operational, although Beijing began evacuating Chinese citizens from the country months ago as security deteriorated

The British and Italian foreign ministers were meanwhile both headed to Afghanistan's neighbours in the coming days to discuss the plight of refugees still hoping to escape the Taliban

The United States will send immigration deportees back to Guatemala directly by air, the Central American country's foreign minister said on Thursday, in a policy shift that may end a practice by which hundreds of deportees were left at a remote jungle bo...

As a member of the Hazara minority in Afghanistan, Azim Kakaie would have had no access to higher education under the Taliban. Instead, over the past two decades he turned a love for aviation into an airtraffic control job in Kabul, he said Thursday.

Family members of the 34 people killed in a fire aboard a scuba diving boat off the California coast two years ago have sued the U.S. Coast Guard for lax enforcement of safety regulations that they say doomed the passengers.

Fed up with poor wages, work and living conditions, thousands of coal miners a century ago marched in an effort to unionize in West Virginia, resulting in a deadly clash and the largest U.S. armed uprising since the Civil War.

A Palestinian man was killed by Israeli gunfire on Thursday night, Gaza health officials said, during a violent protest along the Israeli border.

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Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the group's fighters had entered Panjshir and taken control of some territory.