内容摘要：Before the Taliban return, the number of registered madrassas is believed to have been around 5,000. They focus on religious education, which includes Quranic, Hadith, Sharia law, and Arabic language studies.

Before the Taliban return, the number of registered madrassas is believed to have been around 5,000. They focus on religious education, which includes Quranic, Hadith, Sharia law, and Arabic language studies.

Ukraine has retaliated with artillery and drone strikes, as well as a ground offensive against Russia's western Kursk region.Accurate casualty counts are hard to come by due to secrecy by both the Russian and Ukrainian governments, but it is estimated that hundreds of thousands of people, most of them soldiers, have been killed or injured, and millions of Ukrainian civilians have fled as refugees.

A council is to significantly increase the weekly payments to foster carers who agree to continue to live with them after becoming 18.Blackburn with Darwen Council is to hike the payments from £177.33 to £247.85 in a bid to reduce a decline in families agreeing to the arrangement.Lancashire County Council, which provides children's services to 12 boroughs including Hyndburn, Ribble Valley, Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale, is also taking steps to boost foster caring.

Approval of the Blackburn with Darwen rise has been given by the authority's children's services lead, Julie Gunn.Her report said councils had a duty to support young people aged 18-21 to keep living with their former foster carers.

Both the foster carers and the young adult must always agree to the arrangement.

Councillor Gunn's report said: "Over the last two years the amount of care leavers staying with their foster carers in these arrangements has declined., he said dozens joined the search including Malin Head Coast Guard, the Irish Coast Guard helicopter and a former RNLI crew member, who was on the lough in his own personal boat.

"There was a local yacht race happening that day, and they stopped that and assisted with the search," he said."It was terribly traumatic to look at the families watching out over the lough and praying."

The third teenage boy was helped out of the water "with the assistance of a local man" and was able to "scramble" onto the coastal pathway, Mr Joyce added.Mr Joyce said support services have been put in place following the incident.