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AFGHANISTAN-KHOST-HEALTH-MEASLES

(240714) -- KHOST, July 14, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- This photo taken on July 14, 2024 shows children with measles at a hospital in Khost province, east Afghanistan. At least 160 people have died from measles in Afghanistan over the past six months, the World Health Organization (WHO) has reported. According to the report, 36,618 people were infected with the disease during the current year, and 160 deaths have been registered, out of which 81.1 percent of suspected cases of measles were children below the age of five, and 45 percent of them were women. Most of the cases have been recorded in eastern Afghanistan's Khost province, the report added. (Photo by Yusuf Mangal/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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AFGHANISTAN-KHOST-HEALTH-MEASLES

(240714) -- KHOST, July 14, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- This photo taken on July 14, 2024 shows a child with measles at a hospital in Khost province, east Afghanistan. At least 160 people have died from measles in Afghanistan over the past six months, the World Health Organization (WHO) has reported. According to the report, 36,618 people were infected with the disease during the current year, and 160 deaths have been registered, out of which 81.1 percent of suspected cases of measles were children below the age of five, and 45 percent of them were women. Most of the cases have been recorded in eastern Afghanistan's Khost province, the report added. (Photo by Yusuf Mangal/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Colorful celebrations held to mark Bengali New Year in Dhaka

STORY: Colorful celebrations held to mark Bengali New Year in Dhaka SHOOTING TIME: April 14, 2024 DATELINE: April 17, 2024 LENGTH: 0:01:28 LOCATION: Dhaka CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the mega colourful procession in Dhaka STORYLINE: Hundreds of thousands of people in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, participated on Sunday in a colorful procession featuring evocative masks, floats and motifs of Bangladeshi culture. The procession greeted Pohela Boishakh, the first day of the New Year, with renewed hope and good spirits. Celebrants rang in Bengali New Year 1431 with a combination of traditional and modern ritual practices. People in traditional costumes joined the procession called Mangal Shobhajatra, which kicked off at Dhaka University. It followed a curtain-raising, musical soiree that ended at dawn in Ramna park. Students of Dhaka University's Institute of Fine Arts coordinated the procession to welcome the Bengali New Year. The soiree was sponsored by Chhayanaut, a leading cul

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Preparations underway for Bengali New Year celebrations

STORY: Preparations underway for Bengali New Year celebrations SHOOTING TIME: April 9, 2024 DATELINE: April 10, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:40 LOCATION: Dhaka CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of people at Dhaka University making paper works STORYLINE: As Bengali New Year nears, preparations are in full swing across Bangladesh, especially in the capital, Dhaka. The day, usually celebrated every year on April 14, is marked by grand festivities. Currently, artists from Dhaka University's Faculty of Fine Arts are dedicating their time to crafting paper masks and large bamboo symbolic animal figures. They will be used at the main colorful new year procession called the Mangal Shobhajatra (March of Good Tidings). The flagship procession was inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2016. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Dhaka. (XHTV)

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AFGHANISTAN-KHOST-RAMADAN

(240403) -- KHOST, April 3, 2024 (Xinhua) -- People break their fast during Ramadan in Khost City, the capital of Afghanistan's Khost Province, April 2, 2024. (Photo by Yusuf Mangal/Xinhua)

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AFGHANISTAN-PAKTIA-HASHISH-DEMOLISHED

(230925) -- PAKTIA, Sept. 25, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Afghan police officers destroy hashish in Paktia province, Afghanistan, Sept. 23, 2023. The counter-narcotics police have smashed 3,060 acres of hashish in east Afghanistan's Paktia province, an official said on Sunday. (Photo by Yusuf Mangal/Xinhua)

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AFGHANISTAN-KHOST-SWIMMING

(230917) -- KHOST, Sept. 17, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Children cool off in the water in Khost Province, Afghanistan, Sept. 16, 2023. (Photo by Yusuf Mangal/Xinhua)

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AFGHANISTAN-KHOST-BLAST

(230814) -- KHOST, Aug. 14, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 14, 2023 shows the site of a blast in Khost, Afghanistan. At least three people were killed and seven others injured as a blast shocked Khost city of east Afghanistan's Khost Province on Monday, according to a statement of the provincial government. (Photo by Yusuf Mangal/Xinhua)

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AFGHANISTAN-KHOST-BLAST

(230814) -- KHOST, Aug. 14, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 14, 2023 shows the site of a blast in Khost, Afghanistan. At least three people were killed and seven others injured as a blast shocked Khost city of east Afghanistan's Khost Province on Monday, according to a statement of the provincial government. (Photo by Yusuf Mangal/Xinhua)

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AFGHANISTAN-KHOST-BLAST

(230814) -- KHOST, Aug. 14, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 14, 2023 shows the site of a blast in Khost, Afghanistan. At least three people were killed and seven others injured as a blast shocked Khost city of east Afghanistan's Khost Province on Monday, according to a statement of the provincial government. (Photo by Yusuf Mangal/Xinhua)

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AFGHANISTAN-KHOST-BLAST

(230814) -- KHOST, Aug. 14, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Aug. 14, 2023 shows the site of a blast in Khost, Afghanistan. At least three people were killed and seven others injured as a blast shocked Khost city of east Afghanistan's Khost Province on Monday, according to a statement of the provincial government. (Photo by Yusuf Mangal/Xinhua)

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AFGHANISTAN-KHOST-DISASTER-FLASH FLOODS

(230711) -- KHOST, July 11, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A man cleans debris at the flash flood-affected area in Khost Province, Afghanistan, July 11, 2023. Heavy rains and flash floods claimed one life and injured three others in eastern Afghanistan's Khost province on Sunday, Kalim Gul Abid, the provincial director for Natural Disaster Management Authority, said Monday. (Photo by Yusuf Mangal/Xinhua)

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AFGHANISTAN-KHOST-WEAPONS

(230511) -- KHOST, May 11, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on May 9, 2023 shows the weapons seized by Afghan security forces in Khost province, Afghanistan. Afghan security forces have discovered and seized 94 pieces of different kinds of weapons in eastern region of the war-torn country, said a statement of the Ministry for National Defense released here on Wednesday. (Photo by Yuuf Mangal/Xinhua)

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AFGHANISTAN-KHOST-WEAPONS

(230511) -- KHOST, May 11, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on May 9, 2023 shows the weapons seized by Afghan security forces in Khost province, Afghanistan. Afghan security forces have discovered and seized 94 pieces of different kinds of weapons in eastern region of the war-torn country, said a statement of the Ministry for National Defense released here on Wednesday. (Photo by Yuuf Mangal/Xinhua)

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Bangladeshi people celebrate Bengali New Year in style

STORY: Bangladeshi people celebrate Bengali New Year in style DATELINE: April 15, 2023 LENGTH: 00:03:58 LOCATION: Dhaka CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Bengali New Year celebrations STORYLINE: With much fervor and enthusiasm, people in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka and elsewhere in the South Asian country joined in celebrations of the traditional new year on Friday. In traditional costumes, Dhaka residents participated in a colorful procession, the Mangal Shobha Jatra, to welcome the Bengali New Year 1430 with renewed hope and good spirits. The procession started from the Dhaka University following the conclusion of a flagship curtain-raising cultural event at dawn held in the city's lush green Ramna Park. People from all walks of life in Dhaka participated in the mega colorful procession featuring evocative masks, floats and motifs of the Bangladeshi culture. The motifs highlighted a large-scale replica of a horse alongside other handcrafted clay figurines and traditional artifa

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AFGHANISTAN-KHOST-RAMADAN-BREAKING FAST

(230405) -- KHOST, April 5, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Afghans buy food from a stall to break their fast after sunset during Ramadan in Khost, Afghanistan, April 3, 2023. (Photo by Yusuf Mangal/Xinhua)

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AFGHANISTAN-KHOST-RAMADAN-BREAKING FAST

(230405) -- KHOST, April 5, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Food store runners wait for customers who are about to break their fast after sunset during Ramadan in Khost, Afghanistan, April 3, 2023. (Photo by Yusuf Mangal/Xinhua)

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(1)Foreign journalists shown destruction in Afghan village

CHAH KARIZ, Afghanistan - Mangal, a resident of the village of Chah Kariz, speaks to a group of foreign journalists on Nov. 1 about U.S. bombing of the village, located 80 kilometers northeast of Kandahar. Afghan's ruling Taliban took the journalists to the village to witness the destruction by U.S.-led raids.

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AFGHANISTAN-KUNDUZ-OXYGEN PRODUCING PLANT

(220726) -- KUNDUZ, July 26, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A staff member works at an oxygen producing plant in Kunduz province, Afghanistan, on July 26, 2022. An oxygen producing plant for hospital use has been operational in Afghanistan's northern Kunduz province, head of the provincial civil hospital Mohammad Naem Mangal said Monday. (Photo by Aimal Kakar/Xinhua)

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AFGHANISTAN-KUNDUZ-OXYGEN PRODUCING PLANT

(220726) -- KUNDUZ, July 26, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A staff member works at an oxygen producing plant in Kunduz province, Afghanistan, on July 26, 2022. An oxygen producing plant for hospital use has been operational in Afghanistan's northern Kunduz province, head of the provincial civil hospital Mohammad Naem Mangal said Monday. (Photo by Aimal Kakar/Xinhua)

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AFGHANISTAN-KUNDUZ-OXYGEN PRODUCING PLANT

(220726) -- KUNDUZ, July 26, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A staff member works at an oxygen producing plant in Kunduz province, Afghanistan, on July 26, 2022. An oxygen producing plant for hospital use has been operational in Afghanistan's northern Kunduz province, head of the provincial civil hospital Mohammad Naem Mangal said Monday. (Photo by Aimal Kakar/Xinhua)

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Bangladesh's Bengali New Year celebration returns with in-person events

STORY: Bangladesh's Bengali New Year celebration returns with in-person events DATELINE: April 15, 2022 LENGTH: 00:03:32 LOCATION: Dhaka CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of people in the Mongol Shobhajatra (procession marking Bengali New Year) 2. various of Bangladesh police and other law enforcement personnel in the Mongol Shobhajatra 3. various of people dancing and singing STORYLINE: In-person celebrations of the Bengali New Year have returned to the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka. People from all walks of life joined a mega colorful procession Thursday. The procession, or the Mangal Shobha Jatra, greeted Pohela Boishakh, or the first day of the New Year, with renewed hope and good spirits. Thousands of people wearing traditional costumes joined the procession that started at Dhaka University. It ended with a flagship curtain-raising cultural event at dawn in the city's park. Due to COVID-19, the procession was canceled in 2020 and was scaled down last year. The procession was held under

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(1)Foreign journalists shown destruction in Afghan village

CHAH KARIZ, Afghanistan - Mangal, a resident of the village of Chah Kariz, speaks to a group of foreign journalists on Nov. 1 about U.S. bombing of the village, located 80 kilometers northeast of Kandahar. Afghan's ruling Taliban took the journalists to the village to witness the destruction by U.S.-led raids.