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The Taliban government confirms that it will attend the Belt and Road Initiative forum in Beijing, China, next week, as the countries form closer economic ties, including the potential construction of a large copper mine in Logar Province, Afghanistan.
2023-10-15

Seventeen people are killed and 44 others are injured after a fire spreads through a 19-story apartment building in the Bronx, New York City, United States.
2022-01-9

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy announces a state of emergency due to widespread flooding from Ida's remnants. In New York City, a flash flood emergency warning is declared for the first time.
2021-09-1

Government forces and the Taliban clash in Herat, the provincial capital of Herat Province, where the Islamist group has seized many districts. The Taliban also captures adjoining border crossings with Iran and Turkmenistan as the United Nations accuses them of killing a United Nations serviceman yesterday during an attack on a UN compound.
2021-07-31

Four separate bombings kill eleven civilians and injure many others across the country as the three-day ceasefire declared by the Taliban to observe Eid al-Fitr remains in place. No group claims responsibility for any of the bombings.
2021-05-13

A helicopter crashes onto the roof of the AXA Equitable Center in New York City, killing the pilot.
2019-06-10

Former New York congressman Anthony Weiner is released from a halfway house in the Bronx, completing his 21-month federal prison sentence for illicit online contact with a 15-year-old girl.
2019-05-14

The Taliban claims responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed 12 people, including 8 civilians in Kabul.
2018-12-12

Shahbaz Taseer, the son of Pakistani Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer who was murdered in 2011 for criticizing the country's blasphemy laws, is reunited with his family four-and-a-half years after his kidnapping. Tuesday, Shahbaz was rescued by Pakistani secret service and counter-terrorism operatives in Kuchlak, Balochistan Province. He had been abducted in Lahore in August 2011, seven months after his father's murder by bodyguard Mumtaz Qadri. Qadri was executed on February 29, 2016. His death was claimed as the reason for the deadly Taliban suicide bombing in Shabqadar two days earlier.
2016-03-9

Seven people are killed, including three children, when a vehicle they were in flipped over on the Bronx River Parkway in The Bronx, New York City.
2012-04-29