Seven people, including one Chinese citizen and six Afghans, died when a blast took place in a restaurant in the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday, authorities said. Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zahran said on US social media company X that the blast took place at around 3pm (1030GMT) near the restaurant in the Shahr-e-Naw area of Kabul.

In the dull glow of a single bulb lighting their tent on the outskirts of Kabul, Samiullah and his wife Bibi Rehana sit down to dry bread and tea, their only meal of the day, accompanied by their five children and three-month-old grandchild.

KABUL (Reuters) -- An explosion tore through a Chinese-run restaurant in a hotel in a heavily guarded part of Afghanistan's capital on Monday, killing a Chinese national and six Afghans and injuring several others including a child, officials said.

Four gunmen who crossed from Afghanistan into neighboring Tajikistan were killed in a skirmish with border guards overnight, Tajikistan’s National Security Committee said. The Tajik border guards spotted the gunmen near a village close to the border with Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province.

As an explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan, reportedly killed one Chinese citizen and seriously injured another on Monday afternoon, the Chinese Embassy in Afghanistan told the Global Times on Tuesday that no further confirmed information is available yet and the case is still under verification,

Afghanistan television has broadcast its first three hours of news, featuring a teenage female presenter. In a sign of just how much life has changed since the Taliban retreated last week from Kabul,

Afghanistan briefly lost momentum in the middle overs, slipping from 183 for 2 to 186 for 5, but Uzairullah Niazai ensured there was no collapse. Batting with maturity, he remained unbeaten on 51 off 51 balls to guide his side to a competitive total of 266 for 8.