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The latest 6.3-magnitude earthquake was about 28 kilometres (17 miles) outside Herat, the capital of Herat province, and 10 kilometres (6 miles) deep, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. FILE: Afghan residents clear debris from a damaged house after earthquake in Sarbuland village of Zendeh Jan district of Herat province.  HERAT: Less than a week after a quake killed more than 2,000 and flattened whole villages, another strong earthquake shook part of western Afghanistan on Wednesday morning. The latest 6.3-magnitude earthquake was about 28 kilometres (17 miles) outside Herat, the capital of Herat province, and 10 kilometres (6 miles) deep, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The epicentre of Saturday’s quake was about 40 kilometres (25 miles) northwest of the provincial capital, and several aftershocks have been strong, including another 6. 3 magnitude Saturday. Taliban officials said more than 2,000 had died across Herat after the earlier quakes. They subsequently ...

The Taliban, earlier this month, prohibited women and families from accessing the garden restaurants in Herat.                                         Taliban bans music, video games, and foreign films Video games, foreign movies, and music have been outlawed in Afghanistan under the Taliban government because they are considered to be anti-Islamic. This ban is first imposed in the western city of Herat in Afghanistan. More than 400 firms in Herat had to shut down as a result of the sudden ban enforced by the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. According to Maulana Azizurrahman Mohajir, the provincial head of the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the establishments were shut down after several parents complained about how their kids were wasting time there. He said, “These shops were selling films that depicted and promoted Indian and We...

BERLIN: German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock called for the international community to send Afghanistan’s Taliban leadership the message that it is heading in the wrong direction. “Our influence on what happens inside Afghanistan is very limited. It depends on the Taliban making rational choices in their own economic interest, and that is not what they are doing right now,” said Baerbock during a visit to Islamabad, warning of a humanitarian disaster brewing in the country. “It is not the Afghan people’s fault that their government was overthrown by the Taliban,” she said on Tuesday at a joint news conference with her Pakistani counterpart, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. Read More : https://www.arabnews.com/node/2098426/world