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Authorities say the dead include 15 children, according to local media.
The heavy snowfall damaged or destroyed more than 450 homes and blocked roads.
forcing the Disaster Management Authority to rescue people trapped in cars.
The extreme weather comes as aid agencies are scrambling for donations to prevent Afghans from slipping even deeper into hunger, even as tens of thousands are forcibly repatriated from their homes in neighbouring Pakistan and Iran.
Nearly half of all Afghans are expected to be severely food insecure by March.
In neighbouring Pakistan, local outlet Dawn
reported that nine members of her family were killed when an avalanche buried their house in the northern Himalayan region of Chitral.
India ramped up its purchasing of Russian oil after the invasion of Ukraine and is now one of the world's biggest buyers.
It also sells Russian oil products onwards.
But in recent weeks, Indian companies have curbed their purchases.
It came after the Trump administration imposed 50% tariffs on goods from India and after sanctions were slapped on major Russian oil producers.
It's not clear how Putin can continue uninterrupted shipments of fuel to India, but energy analysts say there's been an increase in sanctions-avoiding behaviour on the high seas.
India insists the US is imposing a double standard –
partly because other major buyers like China haven't been punished, while the U.S.
and Europe purchase Russian oil products through third countries.
These are really dark days for the some 265,000 Afghans who advocates say were in the pipeline to come to the U.S.,
Like Roshanga, he was in the Afghan military.
He used to sign off on airstrikes targeting Taliban fighters.