Russian forces pummeled the front line in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions with artillery and air strikes. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told Ukrainians that the front line was holding despite Moscow’s incessant pressure. The General Staff of the Ukrainian military said in its daily report that Heavy fighting continued unabated around the disputed cities of Bakhmut, Lyman, and Avdiyivka in Donetsk
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Tajikistan’s Disturbing Clampdown on Aga Khan Development Network Assets
Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) has become a hostage to its investments in Tajikistan. In mid-July, the Prosecutor’s Office of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO) appealed to the Supreme Economic Court of Tajikistan with a demand to annul the land certificate for the campus of the University of Central Asia in Khorog, which is owned by the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN).
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Train derails in Pakistan kills many
At least 30 people have been killed and 100 injured when a train derailed in southern Pakistan. Several carriages of the Hazara Express overturned near Sahara railway station in Nawabshah, about 275km (171 miles) from the largest city Karachi.
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13 dies in a fire at the center of Almaty, Kazakhstan’s largest city
A fire in a hostel in the center of Almaty, Kazakhstan’s largest city, has killed 13 people. Almaty Mayor Erbolat Dosaev said that among the dead were several foreigners.
