Fri 15 October 2021: According to public health officials in the province, an explosion inside a Shia mosque in Afghanistan’s southern city of Kandahar killed at least 32 people and injured 45 others. On Friday afternoon, an explosion occurred in the Bibi Fatima mosque, the city’s main mosque for Shia worshippers. Interior ministry spokesman Sayed […]
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Thu 14 October 2021: Over 30 countries have agreed on mutual recognition of COVID-19 vaccine certificates with India, official sources told news agency PTI on Thursday. The countries that have agreed on mutual recognition with India include the UK, France, Germany, Nepal, Belarus, Lebanon, Armenia, Ukraine, Belgium, Hungary and Serbia, they said. South Africa, Brazil, […]
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Thu 14 October 2021: As Afghanistan’s new government continues its diplomatic campaign for support and legitimacy, a high-level Taliban team has landed in Turkey’s capital for negotiations. Afghan Foreign Ministry spokesman Abdul Qahar Balkhi said on Twitter on Thursday that acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi and other ministers would meet “senior Turkish officials” to […]
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Thu 14 October 2021: Fumio Kishida, Japan’s new Prime Minister, dissolved the lower house of parliament on Thursday, clearing the way for national elections on October 31. After being elected prime minister by parliament only 10 days ago to succeed Yoshihide Suga, Kishida said he is seeking public approval for his policies. At a plenary […]
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Wed 13 October 2021: According to Qari Saeed Khosty, a spokesman for the Afghan Interior Ministry, the interim Afghan government is forming a commission to remove corrupt and undeserving individuals from its ranks. Officials from the country’s defense and interior ministries, as well as the national security directorate, would make up the new governing body. […]
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Wed 13 October 2021: Slamming Defence Minister Rajnath Singh over his comment that “on Mahatma Gandhi’s request, Savarkar wrote mercy petitions to the British”, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday alleged that the BJP will soon declare Vinayak Damodar Savarkar as ‘the father of the nation’. Speaking to ANI, Mr Owaisi said: “They (BJP) are […]
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Tue 12 October 2021: According to a report, China has rejected efforts from the World Health Organization (WHO) to check bat caves and animal breeding farms in order to further investigate the origins of the COVID pandemic. WHO sought to conduct investigations in Enshi, a six-hour drive from Wuhan, which was the world’s first major […]
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Tue 12 October 2021: Leaders and ministers from the G20 countries were gathered via video conference to discuss a UN proposal to send funding to Afghanistan to help ease the country’s deteriorating humanitarian crisis. US President Joe Biden and the other G20 leaders agreed during a virtual meeting to provide humanitarian aid directly to the […]
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Tue 12 October 2021: G20 leaders will hold a virtual summit on Tuesday to discuss Afghanistan, with the Italy-hosted talks focused on the humanitarian and security situation following the takeover by the Taliban. Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, whose country holds the rotating G20 presidency, has been pushing to widen the global discussion on Afghanistan […]
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Tue 12 October 2021: The new Taliban administration has attempted to build relations with foreign countries to try stave off a catastrophic economic disaster, almost two months after the last Western-backed government collapsed and the organization swept into Kabul. “The international community need to start cooperating with us,” acting Foreign Minister Mullah Amir Khan Muttaqi […]
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