An American woman has been released by the Taliban rulers in Afghanistan after being detained for the past month, the second freeing of a US citizen in the past eight days.

Iran has marked its annual fire festival. The festival is known as “Chaharshanbe Souri” in Farsi. It comes a week before ...

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