Day: October 8, 2021

On October 7, a telephone conversation took place between President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and Russian President Vladimir Putin .At the beginning of the conversation, the head of Turkmenistan "cordially congratulated his Russian c...

India's coal-burning power plants, which supply much of the country's electricity, are running perilously low on stocks, raising fears of power shortages just as the country’s pandemic-hit economy is on a recovery path.The coal shortage is being attrib...

Refugee and humanitarian crises in Afghanistan and Ethiopia were the focus of intense debate during this week’s annual U.N. refugee conference.The U.N. high commissioner for refugees, Filippo Grandi, said the weeklong discussions were constructive. He ...

A senior American diplomat said Friday that the United States was working with global partners to help prevent a looming humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan but criticized the country’s new Taliban rulers for failing to deliver on their public commitmen...

Afghanistan’s Taliban urged the United States Saturday to unfreeze Afghanistan’s central bank reserves, during an ongoing meeting with an American delegation in Qatar — the first face-to-face dialogue at a senior level since the Islamist group took con.....