Pakistan and Afghanistan on Sunday signed a landmark trade agreement that has been heavily promoted by the United States. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is in Pakistan for a two-day visit, looked on as the Pakistani and Afghan commerce ministers sealed the deal in Islamabad. The U.S. special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, […]
From traditional instruments to rock guitars – the Afghan National Institute of Music gives disadvantaged children the chance to play a part in the resurgence of music in Afghanistan, which was widely banned under the Taliban regime as un-Islamic.
Thanks to a Food for Education program, the United States will donate 11,000 tons of rice, vegetable oil, yellow peas and lentils valued at more than $21 million for projects to help feed 390,000 children in Haiti and Afghanistan, it was announced Friday.
Hidden cameras have revealed the existence of a surprisingly healthy population of rare snow leopards living in the mountainous reaches of northeastern Afghanistan, according to a new study. The wonderful discovery gives hope to the world's most elusive big cat
The government of Japan has pledged $17 million dollars to Afghanistan to provide more people with clean drinking water. Small dams will also be built for creating electricity and water canals to boost agriculture.
School supplies traveled 7,800 miles from New York to Afghanistan after students from Windsor Central High School collected more than 70 boxes for the children and teachers overseas.
Afghanistan's presidential election closed on Saturday amid relief that attacks by Taliban fighters were fewer than feared for a vote that will bring the first-ever democratic transfer of power in a country plagued by conflict for decades.
A team of four U.S. veterans who are now in business school in Massachusetts have teamed up with farmers they met while serving in Afghanistan to help boost their incomes by by bringing to market the most coveted and expensive spice in the world - Afghan saffron.
Healing the environment with every purchase, a Philadelphia retailer has already removed a quarter million pounds of trash from oceans, rivers, and beaches.
Maasai women are bringing a solar revolution to remote corners Kenya, bringing economic freedom to themselves and others via donkey.
Ever since the night 10 years ago, when Oscar Aranda, a biology student out of college, witnessed the gruesome death of a sea turtle killed for its eggs and meat, he has patrolled Puerto Vallarta's beaches as an unofficial keeper of the sea turtle maternity ward.
400 volunteers on the Caribbean island of Bonair ensure that each year the endangered loggerhead sea turtles hatching on the beaches make it safely to the waves. In one location two year ago the babies were killed after they walked the wrong way, confused by airport lights. This year a human wall was created to block any light except the bright ocean view, which drew them safely home.
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