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Afghan women footballers celebrate 'historic moment'

 A FIFA rule change allowing Afghanistan's women footballers to compete in official matches is a "historic moment" and "basic human right", former captain Khalida Popal told AFP on Thursday.Afghanistan will in...

Khalida Popal, founder of the Afghanistan women's national soccer team, poses

Pakistani troops on high alert on Afghan border

Deported Afghan refugees beside halted passenger trucks at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border town of Torkham. — Reuters

Afghanistan, Pakistan border clashes kill dozens

An armed Taliban security personnel stands guard near the closed gate of the border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan at Spin Boldak district in Kandahar province. — AFP

Afghanistan claims 58 Pakistani soldiers killed in clashes; border closed

Taliban security personnel patrol on Humvees as they move in a convoy at the Mazal area of the Shorabak district near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border on October 12, 2025.

Philippines begins clean-up after twin quakes

The destroyed house of Pepina and Guilbert Masinading following the 7.4 magnitude quake in Manay, Davao Oriental, Philippines, October 11, 2025. REUTERS

How China powers its electric cars and high-speed trains

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Philippines begins clean-up after powerful twin quakes

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Indian police arrest owner of killer cough syrup

A bottle of Colddrif cough syrup. — Reuters

Check whether cough syrup linked to child

An official sticks a notice outside the Sresan Pharmaceutical factory whose Coldrif cough syrup has been linked to the deaths of 17 children. — Reuters

Record floods Vietnam

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Afghani neighbours oppose US retaking Bagram base

Parked vehicles are seen in Bagram US air base, after American troops vacated it, in Parwan province. — Reuters file photo

WHO seeks clarification from India if cough syrup linked to deaths was exported

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Trio win Nobel prize for revealing quantum physics

John Clarke, Michel H Devoret and John M Martinis are announced this year's Nobel Prize winners in Physics, in Stockholm. — Reuters

Death toll rises to 61 as search ends after Indonesia school collapse

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550 trekkers trapped in a blizzard near Everest in Tibet

A screen capture from video shows trekkers leaving their campsite, as unusually heavy snow and rainfall pummeled the Himalayas, in the Tibet Region

Landslides and floods kill 64 in Nepal, India

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