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KABUL – Afghan government has included a project to build a nuclear laboratory in the draft of 2020 national budget. The project is expected to cost 41 million Afghanis and is among 11 large projects in the budget proposal. Afghanistan is a member of International Atomic Energy Agency, an organization …

HAGUE – The International Criminal Court (ICC) has said it would examine claims in a BBC documentary that British soldiers might have committed war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. The programme, aired late yesterday, includes testimony from police investigators, who told the broadcaster that the government covered up killings of …

KABUL – The Afghan Mission to the UN has formed “Group of Friends”, co-chaired by the United Kingdom and comprised of women representatives to the United Nations and its senior officials. The group will highlight the importance of protecting and enhancing women’s rights and the role that women can play …

KABUL – The Afghan government has released three key Taliban prisoners, including Annas Haqqani, for exchange with a kidnapped US professor and an Australian professor, reported local media on Tuesday. “Annus Haqqani togethor with two other haqqani networok prisnoers were released from Bagram and arrived in Qatar Monday morning,” ToloNews …

KABUL – An Indian national is accused of committing sexual abuse while working as a US contractor in Afghanistan, the US Department of Justice said Monday. Lokesh Naik, 35, was charged by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia on November 6 with two counts of aggravated sexual …

RIYADH – Yemeni Houthi rebels captured a Saudi Arabia tugboat on Sunday, according to the state-run Saudi Press Agency SPA. Saudi military spokesman Colonel Turki al-Malki told a news conference that the ship was towing a South Korean drilling rig in the south of the Red Sea when it “went …

HONG KONG – Hong Kong’s embattled leader Carrie Lam called for a peaceful resolution Tuesday to a standoff between police and pro-democracy protesters still trapped within a university. Lam said during a news conference that roughly 100 protesters were still holed up in Hong Kong Polytechnic University after 600 had …

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, has left the country to receive medical treatment in London, serving a prison sentence for corruption. Sharif, a three-time prime minister, has a disease of the immune system and other health issues. On Saturday, the Lahore High Court lifted a travel ban …

TEHRAN – Iran and Turkey are poised to reach $30 billion worth of trade transactions between the two sides. To this end, the Chairman of the Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (ICCIMA) Gholam Hossein Shafei met on Monday with Nail Olpak met on Monday with Nail Olpak, …

MOSCOW – Russia has begun military exercises in the Black Sea, which involves more than 10 ships and aircraft, the press service of the Black Sea Fleet reported Tuesday. The message states that ships’ companies will conduct training “on trawling, naval combat, search and destruction of the submarine, detecting and …