Afghanistan still lacks schools and basic infrastructure. /CGTN Editor's Note: Three years after the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, Rangina Hamidi founded the first woman-owned and woman-run soc
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A sign of Samsung seen in Shanghai, China. /VCG U.S. sanctions aimed at preventing semiconductor companies using U.S. technology from selling chips to China's Huawei without first seeking lice
After almost 19 years of conflict the United States and the Afghan Taliban reached an agreement last month that might see U.S. forces withdraw within 14 months if the militant group does not escal
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Perhaps it was simply the act of putting the orange cones around the plane's wing as the seat belt signs went off, or the way the ground-crew member dropped them down lazily onto the rain-soaked runw
A passerby in Tehran. Jack Barton/CGTN In less than a week, Iran went from a country free of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) to the largest epicenter of the outbreak in the Middle East region