(SP)CHINA-HANGZHOU-ASIAN GAMES-FOOTBALL(CN)

(SP)CHINA-HANGZHOU-ASIAN GAMES-FOOTBALL(CN)

(230927) -- HANGZHOU, Sept. 27, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Seyedmajid Nasiri (L) of Iran competes during the Men's Round of 16 between Iran and Thailand at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Sept. 27, 2023. (Xinhua/Wang Peng)

(Chengdu Universiade)CHINA-CHENGDU-WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES-ROWING (CN)

(Chengdu Universiade)CHINA-CHENGDU-WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES-ROWING (CN)

(230806) -- CHENGDU, Aug. 6, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Bronze medalist Bahman Nasiri of Azerbaijan poses at the awarding ceremony for rowing men's single sculls at the 31st FISU Summer World University Games in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Aug. 6, 2023. (Xinhua/Zhang Bowen)

(Chengdu Universiade)CHINA-CHENGDU-WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES-ROWING (CN)

(Chengdu Universiade)CHINA-CHENGDU-WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES-ROWING (CN)

(230806) -- CHENGDU, Aug. 6, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Bahman Nasiri of Azerbaijan competes during the rowing men's single sculls final A at the 31st FISU Summer World University Games in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Aug. 6, 2023. (Xinhua/Zhao Zishuo)

More Russian humanitarian aid supplies arrive in Afghanistan

STORY: More Russian humanitarian aid supplies arrive in Afghanistan DATELINE: July 22, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:15 LOCATION: Kabul CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of humanitarian aid supplies arriving in Afghanistan STORYLINE: A Russian plane carrying 23.5 tons of humanitarian aid supplies landed at Kabul International Airport on Wednesday. Receiving the shipment, Ghulam Ghous Nasiri, acting minister of state for disaster management and humanitarian affairs, thanked Russia for sending the support and said that the assistance including food and non-food items would be distributed to the people affected by recent earthquakes and flooding. It's the second shipment of Russian humanitarian aid supplies to Afghanistan. The first shipment arrived in the capital Kabul on July 13. More than 1,000 people have lost their lives and more than 3,000 others sustained injuries due to the devastating earthquakes and flash floods in Afghanistan over the past month, according to officials. Xinhua News Agency corresponde

1,000 families receive relief aid in N. Afghanistan

STORY: 1,000 families receive relief aid in N. Afghanistan DATELINE: April 15, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:27 LOCATION: Kabul CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of needy people receiving relief assistance in Kunduz province STORYLINE: About 1,000 destitute and drought-affected families received relief assistance in Afghanistan's northern province of Kunduz on Thursday, a provincial official said. "The Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) distributed 50 kg of flour, 10 liters of cooking oil, and 25 kg of rice together with packages of tea, sugar, salt and biscuits to each of the 1,000 surveyed families in Qala-i-Zal district on Thursday," Mohammad Riza Nasiri, head of province's ARCS department, told Xinhua. More relief assistance would be provided to needy families in Kunduz, 250 km north of Afghanistan's Kabul, in the coming days and weeks, according to the official. Following the U.S. pullout from Afghanistan last August, Washington has imposed sanctions on the Taliban-run administration and