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Crypto provides fix for some in crisis-hit Afghanistan

Digital currencies, impervious to international sanctions, allow handful of young Afghans to avoid the worst of crisis. In the middle of a bazaar in western Afghanistan, Arezo Akrimi takes out her smartphone and, after a few taps of the…

Afghan quake: Rescue workers search for survivors

At least 26 people have been killed and hundreds of houses damaged after a magnitude 5.3 quake jolted Badghis province. Rescue workers are searching for survivors after an earthquake in a remote western region of Afghanistan killed at…