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Pakistan chemical factory fire kills more than a dozen workers
A fire has engulfed a chemical factory in Pakistan’s Karachi city, killing a minimum of 15 workers, officials say. The fire broke out inside the factory in Mehran Town, a congested Karachi neighbourhood, rescue official Mobeen Ahmed said on Friday. At least 15 bodies are retrieved from the rubble of a building that partially collapsed, […]
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U.K. warns of ‘imminent’ terrorist attack at Kabul airport
Britain on Thursday warned that there was a “very credible” report of an “imminent” surprise attack by the Islamic State militants targeting those gathering at Kabul airport in an effort to escape war-torn Afghanistan. U.S. President Joe Biden had also mentioned the growing risk of an attack by the ISIS-K, an ISIS affiliate in Afghanistan, […]
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Afghanistan has what China most prizes’: Beijing eyes access to $1 Trillion of untapped minerals
When the US invaded Afghanistan in 2001, the worldwide economy looked tons different: Tesla Inc. wasn’t a corporation , the iPhone didn’t exist and AI was best referred to as a Spielberg film. Now all three are at the leading edge of a contemporary economy driven by advancements in high-tech chips and large-capacity batteries that […]
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