In Afghan Badakhshan detected the appearance of a large group of militants. Army attempts to oust them from the province so far unsuccessfully. Experts anxiously watching the situation.
The situation in northern Afghanistan is a growing concern of observers. Clashes with government troops militants have trickled down to the Badakhshan province, which borders China, Pakistan and Tajikistan.
According to Afghan media in March, the Taliban took control of most of the county Vardudzh. As reported by news agencies, hundreds of local residents were forced to flee their homes. People are afraid that will be used by militants as human shields.
How big is the competition between Russia and China in Central Asia?
How to change the attitude of Beijing to the region with the arrival of the new Chinese leader, figured out DW.
March 22-24, to be held the first official visit to Moscow, the new President Xi Jinping. Before the visit the experts give different estimates of Sino-Russian relations. In particular, many point to existing at the moment of between Moscow and Beijing in the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), and the growing competition between China and Russia in Central Asia.
In Germany, politicians and experts supported the idea of tax on contributions of more than 100,000 euros, but sharply criticized the Cypriot Parliament created the "National Solidarity Fund."
Impose a one-time collection of deposits over 100,000 euros and not impose any special tax on savings deposits of small investors - is the most appropriate way to save the banking system of Cyprus and the conditions for financial assistance from the EU in the amount of 10 billion euros. This is the opinion of many German politicians and experts commenting on persistent search for a way out of the Cyprus crisis.
In the U.S. state of Mississippi recorded cumulative treatment of HIV infection. Year-old girl was lucky. Doctors explain the treatment that the girl took a few powerful drugs at birth.
Doctors from Mississippi (USA) announced the miracle happened. From human immunodeficiency virus completely cured year-old child, who was born with the disease.
According to Wall Street Journal, a cure for HIV girl, whose age - two and a half years. Doctors believe that it happened after the aggressive drug treatment, which began immediately after the birth. Doctors performed highly active antiretroviral therapy, which is the simultaneous reception of three or four drugs.
Because of a rare hormonal disease 22-year-old Singh Azad (Azad Singh) of Haryana state in northern India has stopped growing at 5 years of age.
His parents were poor, so they could not buy growth hormones for her son. Azad is now growing about 1 meter.
Because of small stature, he was subjected to abuse by their peers, who have promised to sell him to the circus. Even at the age of 18 he was accepted for the child. However, the constant bullying steel Azad incentive to change their lives for the better.
To repay the debt in the amount of 150 thousand rubles, a client of the bank offered to sell organs or their child.
In Chelyabinsk, a local resident Irene turned into one of the branches of the bank "Russian Standard" to take out a loan in the amount of 40 thousand rubles.
She needed money for drugs, doctors suspected she had cancer of the brain. For a while Irina regularly pays fees on the loan, as long as her condition has not worsened, and she lost her job. After that, Irina asked the bank to change the schedule of payments in order to pay less. But after a while her bank debt increased from 40 to 150 rubles.
In Afghan Badakhshan detected the appearance of a large group of militants. Army attempts to oust them from the province so far unsuccessfully. Experts anxiously watching the situation.
