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Uzbekistan starts processing Afghanistan crude oil

According to reports, Afghanistan’s crude oil will be transported by rail from Hairatan land port to Uzbekistan’s Fergana refinery.

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Uzbekistan has struck a deal with Afghanistan to process the country’s crude oil, Uzbek media reported Tuesday.

According to reports, Afghanistan’s crude oil will be transported by rail from Hairatan land port to Uzbekistan’s Fergana refinery.

The first shipments have reportedly already been dispatched.

Sources told Uzbek media that 100,000 metric tons of crude oil would be processed under the deal.

Talks between the Islamic Emirate and Uzbekistan have been ongoing for months amid efforts by the IEA to become self-sufficient.

The IEA has been trying to kickstart production since 2022.

Last year, China’s Central Asia Petroleum and Gas Co., or CAPEIC – based in China’s western Xinjiang region – signed a major oil extraction contract with the Islamic Emirate, pledging to invest $540 million in crude oil production by 2026.

The Fergana refinery is the only one in Uzbekistan with the technical ability to process Afghan crude oil, sources said.

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Japan allocates nearly $20 million in humanitarian aid for Afghanistan

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The Embassy of Japan in Afghanistan announced on Friday that the country has allocated $19.5 million in humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan.

In a statement, the Japanese Embassy said it hopes the aid will help bring positive change to the lives of vulnerable Afghans.

According to the statement, the assistance will cover the basic humanitarian needs of vulnerable communities in Afghanistan.

The embassy added that the aid will be delivered through United Nations agencies, international organizations, and Japanese non-governmental organizations operating in Afghanistan.

Japan’s total assistance to Afghanistan since August 2021 has reached more than $549 million.

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Afghan border forces prevent illegal entry of hundreds into Iran

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Security forces at the Islam Qala border in Herat province prevented hundreds of young Afghans from illegally entering Iran.

Officials from the 207 Al-Farooq Army Corps said that around 530 people attempted over the past two days to illegally enter Iranian territory through areas of Kohsan district in Herat, but border forces detained them and transferred them back to their original areas.

Meanwhile, officials in the local administration of Herat said that due to severe cold along the illegal migration route to Iran, three Afghan migrants have lost their lives in the Kohsan district of the province, and a shepherd has also died there for the same reason.

Mohammad Yousuf Saeedi, spokesperson for the Herat governor’s office, said that some statistics and images shared on social media regarding the incident are not reliable.

According to him, further investigations are underway to determine whether any individuals have died on the other side of the border.

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US pauses green card lottery program after Brown University shooting

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President Donald Trump suspended the green card lottery program on Thursday that allowed the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings to come to the United States.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on the social platform X that, at Trump’s direction, she is ordering the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to pause the program, the Associated Press reported.

“This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country,” she said of the suspect, Portuguese national Claudio Neves Valente.

Neves Valente, 48, is suspected in the shootings at Brown University that killed two students and wounded nine others, and the killing of an MIT professor. He was found dead Thursday evening from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, officials said.

Neves Valente had studied at Brown on a student visa beginning in 2000, according to an affidavit from a Providence police detective. In 2017, he was issued a diversity immigrant visa and months later obtained legal permanent residence status, according to the affidavit. It was not immediately clear where he was between taking a leave of absence from the school in 2001 and getting the visa in 2017.

The diversity visa program makes up to 50,000 green cards available each year by lottery to people from countries that are little represented in the U.S., many of them in Africa. The lottery was created by Congress, and the move is almost certain to invite legal challenges.

Nearly 20 million people applied for the 2025 visa lottery, with more than 131,000 selected when including spouses with the winners. After winning, they must undergo vetting to win admission to the United States. Portuguese citizens won only 38 slots.

Lottery winners are invited to apply for a green card. They are interviewed at consulates and subject to the same requirements and vetting as other green-card applicants.

Trump has long opposed the diversity visa lottery. Noem’s announcement is the latest example of using tragedy to advance immigration policy goals. After an Afghan man was identified as the gunman in a fatal attack on National Guard members in November, Trump’s administration imposed sweeping rules against immigration from Afghanistan and other counties.

While pursuing mass deportation, Trump has sought to limit or eliminate avenues to legal immigration. He has not been deterred if they are enshrined in law, like the diversity visa lottery, or the Constitution, as with a right to citizenship for anyone born on U.S. soil. The Supreme Court recently agreed to hear his challenge to birthright citizenship.

 

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