From heated clothes airers to air fryers, energy efficiency continues to be top of the agenda in 2025 – which means you need a blanket hoodie in your life. Pioneered by Australian brand Oodie ...

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) says it will implement a 4 percent charge on the free-on-board (FOB) value of imports. FOB is when the seller is responsible for delivering the goods to the port ...

US President Trump voiced dissatisfaction over Afghanistan's situation and the Taliban's resurgence post-withdrawal. He proposed the US take over Gaza to transform it into a desirable location.

The Taliban suspended the operation of Afghanistan’s only nationwide women’s radio station after raiding its premises on Tuesday, deepening the exclusion of women from public life and society ...

One of the few officials in Afghanistan’s Taliban government to support reversing the ban on girls’ education appears to have been forced to flee the country. It was just two weeks ago that ...

UN Warns Maternal Deaths in Afghanistan May Rise After US Funding Pause By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - A U.N. aid official said on Tuesday that a U.S. funding pause would cut off millions of ...

Afghanistan's Ruling Taliban Vow to Stay United Despite 'Enemy' Bids to Cause Rifts KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taliban rulers will stay united despite enemies' efforts to create divisions ...

One of those failures took place in August 2021, when former President Joe Biden presided over an unmitigated disaster while shambolically withdrawing from Afghanistan. After 20 years of fighting ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Afghans walk by the Serena hotel in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan, March 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus ...

Since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in 2021, the fundamentalist group has banned education for women and girls post-primary school. Women cannot go to parks, and beauty salons and ...

Ruth Pollard is a Bloomberg Opinion Managing Editor. Previously she was South and Southeast Asia government team leader at Bloomberg News and Middle East correspondent for the Sydney Morning ...