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Flash Floods Kill at Least 23 in Afghanistan

Dozens remained missing after floods swept through a city in Nuristan, an isolated province in the country’s east.

© Wahidullah Kakar/Associated Press

A damaged bridge and building in the eastern province of Nuristan in Afghanistan on Tuesday. Heavy monsoon rains sent torrents of water down surrounding mountains.
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Inside Herat, Where a Taliban Campaign Targets a Cosmopolitan Outpost

Afghanistan’s leader has exerted full control over a city that once enjoyed looser social norms, even under Taliban rule.

© Jim Huylebroek for The New York Times

Women at a street market in Herat, Afghanistan, in 2023.
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Pakistan Finds Wreckage of Cargo Plane That Vanished at Sea Overnight

Pakistan’s Navy is still searching for missing crew members after the aircraft plunged vertically and went missing over the Arabian Sea, aviation authorities said.

© Akhtar Soomro/Reuters

At Jinnah International Airport, in Karachi, Pakistan.
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Bus Plunges 70 Feet Into a Ravine in Pakistan, Killing 40

The overloaded bus was carrying 48 passengers on a notoriously hazardous highway linking two provincial capitals.

© Agence France-Presse, via Balochistan Emergency Rescue 112

The site of a bus crash in Balochistan Province, Pakistan, on Friday, in a photo released by the Balochistan Emergency Rescue.
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