The Taliban government is counting on Afghanistan’s bountiful gemstone and mineral resources after the loss of billions of dollars in…
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Ukraine has largely been driven out of Kurakhove, a battered but strategic town in the Donbas, Russia said. Kyiv’s forces…
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Gaza’s health ministry said that 88 people had been killed over the past day. Israeli and Hamas officials have been…
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A renegade part of Moldova once boasted it would become a Russian-speaking Switzerland. Now without gas, its leader assured residents,…
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