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Judging results at Wheat Lands Communities' Fair
RITZVILLE - Preliminary result are in for the 2025 judging of exhibits at Wheat Lands Community Fair. The fair judged exhibits in 27 categories, totaling 1,800 individual entries. Across the divisions the numbers of entries ranged from 1 to 211....

Toll passes 1,400 as fresh quake hits Afghanistan
An Afghan injured man receives intravenous drips in a corn field, after earthquakes at Mazar Dara village in Nurgal district, Kunar province, in Eastern Afghanistan, on Monday. | AFP photo A fresh 5.2-magnitude earthquake hit the east of...

Aid workers losing hope in Afghanistan after earthquake
Aid workers in Afghanistan are losing hope that more survivors could be found in the mountainous region devastated by Sunday's earthquake, with rescue efforts still hampered by road conditions. Local director for Concern Worldwide told RTÉ News...

Fresh quake hits disaster-struck Afghanistan, as death toll passes 1,400
Afghan men stand next to the bodies of earthquake victims in burial shrouds following earthquakes in the Mazar Dara village of Nurgal, a district of the Kunar Province, in Eastern Afghanistan, on September 1, 2025. More than 800 people have died...

The quake that rocked Afghanistan ‘like doomsday’
“It was like doomsday for us,” Sayar said as he rested on a carpet in his cornfield, where he was spending Monday night with the surviving members of his family. The earthquake that rocked eastern Afghanistan on Sunday killed at least 1,400 people...

Winnipeg's Afghan community reeling after deadly earthquake
Afghans living in Winnipeg are calling on governments and citizens around the world to support Afghanistan in whatever way they can after a devastating earthquake on Sunday left hundreds dead and thousands injured. "I call on the Canadian...
'Entire households were gone': Afghans describe death and devastation after Sunday's earthquake
Nasrullah Khan's voice breaks as he describes how with his own hands he buried three children in one grave and two young men in another after an earthquake struck the mountainous southeastern Afghan province of Kunar on Sunday. Nasrullah, an...

Death roll soars past 1,400 in Afghanistan after earthquake
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Persecuted Hindus, Sikhs, Jains From Afghanistan, B'desh, Pak Who Entered India Up To 2024 To Be Allowed To Stay: MHA
New Delhi, Sep 2 (PTI) Members of minority communities from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan -- Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians -- who came to India till December 31, 2024, to escape religious persecution will be allowed...
Death toll from Afghanistan earthquake passes 1,400 as Taliban appeal for aid
A FRESH 5.2-MAGNITUDE earthquake hit the east of Afghanistan today, jolting a region still struggling with the aftermath of a powerful quake at the weekend that killed more than 1,400 people. The epicentre of the tremor was close to where a...

Afghan refugee who runs German solar firm
Agence France-Presse . Lohra 30 August, 2025, 00:17 Rostam Nazari grew up without electricity in Afghanistan and could not read or write when he arrived in Germany as a teenager. Ten years later he has written two books in German and runs a solar...

Road accident kills 8, injures 4 in Afghanistan
Kabul: Eight travellers lost their lives and four others were injured as their car turned turtle in northern Afghanistan's Jawzjan province, provincial police spokesman Qari Abdul Sattar said on Tuesday. Blaming reckless driving for the deadly...

White House officials to attend funeral of Afghan vet turned advocate
Numerous administration officials and congressional leaders are expected to travel to North Carolina today for the funeral of former Army Sgt. Michael Verardo, whose catastrophic injuries in Afghanistan led to his family’s involvement with the...

Rescuers focus on remote Afghan regions after earthquake kills over 1,400
Baku, September 2, AZERTAC Rescuers are trying to reach remote areas in eastern Afghanistan’s Kunar region after a devastating earthquake killed at least 1,411 people and wounded 3,124 others, Al Jazeera reported citing to Taliban government...

Fresh 5.2 earthquake hits disaster-struck Afghanistan, as rescue operations continue
JALALABAD: A fresh 5.2-magnitude earthquake hit the east of Afghanistan on Tuesday, jolting a region still struggling with the aftermath of a powerful quake at the weekend that killed 1,400 people. The epicentre of the tremor was close to where a...

Taliban says Afghan earthquake death toll has risen to over 1,400
The death toll from a major earthquake that rocked eastern Afghanistan on Sunday night has climbed to at least 1,411, the ruling Taliban's chief spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said Tuesday, as rescue operations, hampered by rough terrain,...

OG photographer Estevan Oriol has the receipts
Estevan Oriol has got the receipts. The OG photographer and director has 30-plus years of shooting everything from hip-hop artists to Afghan prisons to Japanese Bōsōzoku, resulting in a bulletproof archive that spans wide and delves deep into the...

Taliban says Afghan earthquake death toll has risen to over 1,400
The death toll from a major earthquake that rocked eastern Afghanistan on Sunday night has climbed to at least 1,411, the ruling Taliban's chief spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said Tuesday, as rescue operations, hampered by rough terrain,...

Death toll from earthquake in Afghanistan rises to 1400
The death toll from a strong earthquake in Afghanistan’s east rose to 1400, with 3,000 people injured, an official said Tuesday (September 2) as rescue teams scoured the area for survivors. The 6.0 magnitude quake struck late Sunday night in a...

Scramble for survivors as Afghanistan quake death toll passes 1,400
An Afghan man mourns outside a damaged house, after earthquakes at Mazar Dara village in Nurgal district, Kunar province, in Eastern Afghanistan, on September 1, 2025. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar / AFP) A powerful earthquake that struck eastern...