Afghanistan

Afghanistan&s Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation said on Saturday that passenger bus services between Afghanistan and Pakistan will be rolled out in the near future and will initially run between Kandahar and Quetta; and Nangarhar and Peshawar.

According to officials, private bus companies from both countries will provide the services.

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Turkmen President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov&s son, Serdar, is poised to win Saturday&s snap presidential election and succeed his father as the ruler of a gas-rich Central Asian nation of six million.

President Berdymukhamedov, in power since 2007, called the vote last month, saying he wanted to give way to a new generation of leaders...

YouTube is immediately blocking access around the world to channels associated with Russian state-funded media, it said on Friday, citing a policy barring content that denies, minimizes or trivializes well-documented violent events.

The world&s most used streaming video service, which is owned by Alphabet Inc&s (GOOGL.O) Google, said...

India said on Friday it had accidentally fired a missile into Pakistan this week because of a &technical malfunction& during routine maintenance.

Military experts have in the past warned of the risk of accidents or miscalculations by the nuclear-armed neighbours, which have fought three wars and engaged in numerous smaller armed...