21+ hour, 7+ min ago   (502+ words) Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei has urged leading artificial intelligence companies to slow the pace of developing increasingly powerful AI systems, warning that rapid advances could outstrip humanity’s ability to control the technology within months rather than years. Amodei outlined…...

22+ hour, 9+ min ago   (378+ words) An Iranian commercial vessel was struck by a projectile near Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz early Sunday, killing one crew member and injuring three others, Iranian authorities said, in the latest maritime incident to heighten tensions in the…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (527+ words) UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has warned that Afghanistan’s human rights and humanitarian crisis is worsening under Taliban rule, saying the international community has largely “forgotten and abandoned” the Afghan people as repression intensifies and forced returns…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (295+ words) Khaama Press RSF Condemns Detention of 12 Journalists at Book Fair in Eastern Afghanistan Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the Taliban’s temporary detention of 12 journalists in Khost province after morality police arrested them while they were covering a public book…...

4+ day, 9+ min ago   (311+ words) Iran’s Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi met Alireza Bikdeli, the acting head of Iran’s diplomatic mission in Kabul, to review bilateral relations with Afghanistan and discuss new opportunities to expand cooperation in economic, consular and cultural affairs, Iranian officials said....

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (312+ words) Severe cuts in humanitarian funding have forced hundreds of health facilities across Afghanistan to close or scale back services, leaving millions of people with reduced access to essential medical care, according to reports. Al Jazeera reported on Wednesday, citing new…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (484+ words) Mansoor Ahmad Khan, Pakistan’s former ambassador to Afghanistan, has urged the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) to reconsider its decision ordering Afghan medical and dental students to leave the country, calling for a humanitarian approach that would allow them…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (331+ words) The United Nations has warned that Afghanistan remains one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises after more than four decades of conflict and recurring natural disasters, saying millions of Afghans continue to depend on humanitarian assistance as food insecurity, displacement…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (435+ words) The trial of 14 men accused of organizing the deadliest migrant crossing of the English Channel opened in Paris on Tuesday, nearly five years after a small overcrowded boat sank off the French coast, killing at least 31 migrants, including four Afghans....

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (338+ words) Richard Bennett, the U.N. special rapporteur on Afghanistan, says the Taliban suspended Afghanistan’s 2004 Constitution after returning to power and replaced it with decrees and policies based on their interpretation of Islamic law, dismantling key legal protections for fundamental rights. In a…...