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Cell phone and internet services were restored in Afghanistan on Wednesday, local residents said - around 48 hours after diplomatic and industry sources said connectivity was abruptly cut on the orders of the Taliban administration.
The cell phone services of Roshan and Etisalat companies, the foreign-owned biggest providers, came back to life in the late afternoon, according to residents in Kabul and other cities.
Internet access was restored, companies providing the service said.
The ruling Taliban did not provide a reason for the services going down or their restoration, but one Taliban source in the information department said there were technical reasons for the outage and that services would be quickly restored.
Reuters could not verify his information.
He did not respond to a request for comment on whether the Taliban had ordered the outage.
The United Nations (UN) had called for connectivity to be reinstated.
The outage, which started on Monday, follows a series of hard-line restrictions this year, including an internet ban across a swathe of the country's north, and a ban on playing chess that was imposed for fears it was giving rise to gambling.
The outage had caused chaos, with financial remittances, trade with neighbouring countries and the operations of banks paralysed, while many Afghans were left stranded after flights cancelled.
Online learning by teenage girls and women, an education lifeline after they were banned from high schools and universities, was also brought to a stop.
A day of mourning has been declared in Portugal to pay respect to victims who lost their lives in the Lisbon Funicular crash which happened on Wednesday evening.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least eight people have died and more than 90 others were injured following a catastrophic gas tanker explosion on a major highway in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa district on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on 13 September with no tsunami threat, coming just weeks after the region endured a devastating 8.8-magnitude quake — the strongest since 1952.
At least 69 people have died and almost 150 injured following a powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Cebu City in the central Visayas region of the Philippines, officials said, making it one of the country’s deadliest disasters this year.
Israel’s interception of several vessels of the Global Sumud flotilla carrying aid to Gaza has sparked global reactions and even protests in some countries as people condemn the act.
The Israeli embassy in London has condemned the attack on a Synagogue in Manchester that left three people dead including the attacker and four others injured on Thursday.
The Baku Initiative Group has been recognised in a UN report as the only NGO among global civil society actors advocating for decolonisation and island sovereignty.
The Trump administration plans to halt federal funding of any organisation or government that supports work overseas related to gender identity or diversity, Politico reported on Wednesday, citing a U.S. official and non profit groups informed of the policy change.
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