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AT Kabul: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed China’s plan for the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine when they met one-on-one on Monday, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. The Chinese president is paying a state visit to Russia on March 20-22. On Monday he …

AT Kabul: The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in the US sent ripples through the financial markets across the world. Stock markets sank in Asia and faltered in Europe, with banks sliding on contagion fear after the collapse of two lenders. Bank stocks fell more than 6 …

AT Kabul: A Russian Su-27 fighter jet has collided with a US MQ-9 Reaper drone over the Black Sea, the US military says, claiming that the incident occurred in international airspace. In a statement on Tuesday, US Air Force General James Hecker, who oversees the US Air Force in the …

AT Kabul: Leaked WhatsApp messages have revealed that former UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock suggested frightening the public with a new Covid variant to ensure compliance with lock down rules. The messages, part of the “Lock down Files” – over 100,000 WhatsApp messages exchanged between ministers and officials – show …

AT Kabul: Iran’s supreme leader said on Monday that if a series of suspected poisonings at girls’ schools are proven to be deliberate the culprits should be sentenced to death for committing an “unforgivable crime.” It was the first time Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say …

AT Kabul: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has defended her government’s actions in the hours before a deadly migrant shipwreck just metre from shore, amid intensifying allegations that the tragedy could easily have been averted. The migrant vessel — an old wooden fishing boat carrying about 200 people, mostly from Afghanistan, …

AT Kabul: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Kazakhstan on Tuesday for a series of meetings with top diplomats of Central Asian nations to boost US influence in Central Asia. Blinken’s visit to the capitals of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan on Tuesday marks his first trip to the region as …

AT Kabul: Forty-three migrants died and 80 others survived after their boat sank off the Italian coastal city of Crotone in the southern region of Calabria on Sunday (February 26). Speaking to the news agency Reuters, Danilo Maida, a spokesperson for the firefighters’ service in Calabria, said that firefighters and …

AT Kabul: A 7.3 magnitude earthquake occurred in a remote part of Tajikistan early Thursday near China’s far western Xinjiang region, Chinese state television CCTV reported on Thursday, citing the China Earthquake Networks Center. It was 67 kilometers (41 miles) west of Murghob, Tajikistan, and 20 kilometers (12 miles) below …

AT Kabul: The ancient Silk Road, an overland route linking the East and the West, spanning thousands of miles, with its longest part lying across the territory of Central Asia, has embodied the spirit of cooperation, mutual learning and mutual benefit for years. Since China proposed the Belt and Road …