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Several villages in Kunar province ‘completely destroyed’, says ministry for public health, as rescue operations take placeAt least 250 dead after 6.0 magnitude quake near JalalabadThe death toll from the earthquake in Afghanistan has now risen to 622, Reuters has cited an Afghan interior ministry spokesperson as having said.Authorities said that more than 1,500 people were injured by the 6.0-magnitude earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan just before midnight local time on Sunday.The figures for martyrs and injured are changing. Medical teams from Kunar, Nangarhar and the capital Kabul have arrived in the area.” Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/sep/01/afghanistan-earthquake-live-hundreds-after-shallow-quake-strikes-countrys-east-state-media-reports Author

At least 25 people were injured in the quake that hit at a depth of just 8km near the Pakistan borderA magnitude 6.0 earthquake shook eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border leaving nine people dead and many more injured.The quake struck at 11:47pm on Sunday and was centred 27km northeast of the city of Jalalabad in Nangarhar province, the US Geological Survey said. It was just 8km deep. Shallower quakes tend to cause more damage. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/01/afghanistan-earthquake-near-jalalabad-magnitude-6-quake-pakistan-border Author : Agencies Publish date : 2025-09-01 03:11:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastShadow immigration minister says Coalition support ‘sustainable’ migrationAsked about the Coalition’s own migration policy, Scarr says he supports a “sustainable” level of migration.That looks like considering things like skill shortages, considering things like our humanitarian intake. Australia has always had a generous humanitarian intake for decades and decades.Net overseas migration obviously was in negative territory during Covid, and then we had these huge increases during the first two years of the Albanese government, and that has distorted, in many respects, the debate.We just need to be terribly

Valentine Low’s Power and the Palace relays story in which young Camilla ‘whacked attacker in the nuts’ on train to PaddingtonQueen Camilla was a victim of an attempted sexual assault as a teenager and used the heel of her shoe to fight off her attacker, a new book about the monarchy has claimed.According to Power and the Palace, serialised in the Sunday Times, the queen told Boris Johnson about the attack while he was mayor of London. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/31/queen-camilla-fought-off-sexual-assault-as-teenager-book-claims Author : Joe Coughlan Publish date : 2025-08-31 22:41:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked