The fourth largest country by land area, the United States, quietly grew about 6.2 lakh square kilometres after the latest modification in the extended continental shelf by the Department of State of the country, last month.

US land grew by 621,000 sq km; govt claimed more land in December

PLA constructing sentry posts, trenches and helipads in Doklam area to maintain troops during winter, Sitharaman said.

China building helipads, sentry posts, trenches in Doklam area: Defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman

Monday's action comes after a US strike targeted an IS training camp in a rural area near Sabratha, outside Tripoli, in February

US launches first anti-IS air strikes in Libya's Sirte

After a break of 20 years,?Afghanistan's first?cementfactory is once more clanking noisily in the countryside near Kabul as crushed-up limestone rocks rattle along a battered conveyor belt to the newly restored kiln. In an area desperately short of industry and jobs, workers hope the relaunch of the plant built by Czech engineers in 1957 and shut by the Taliban in 1995.

Hopes and fears for jobs as Afghan cement factory reopens

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