Fri 08 October 2021: The Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K) group claimed a deadly suicide bomb attack on Friday that hit a Shiite mosque in the Afghan city of Kunduz, Sputnik reported. In a statement released on its Telegram channels, the group said that an IS suicide bomber “detonated an explosive vest amid a crowd” of Shiite […]
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Fri 08 October 2021: A massive explosion in a Shia mosque in Kunduz Province, northern Afghanistan, injured dozens of people, according to Aamaj News. Video footage on Friday showed bodies surrounded by debris inside the Gozar-e-Sayed Abad Mosque that is used by people from the minority Shia Muslim community. There are conflicting reports about the […]
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Fri 08 October 2021: Taliban spokesperson Suhail Shaheen has said that he had a meeting with ambassadors and officials from the European Union, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. “Today I had meeting with ambassadors and representatives of various countries including EU, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Canada, UK and USA […]
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Fri 08 October 2021: The suspects in the Mumbai cruise raid, Aryan Khan, Munmun Dhamecha, Arbaaz Merchantt, and others, were presented in a Mumbai court today for their bail requests. The bail applications for Aryan Khan and others were denied by the court on Friday, noting that they were non-maintainable. During the remand hearing on […]
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Fri 08 October 2021: The Taliban will be invited to international talks on Afghanistan that Russia hopes to convene in Moscow on October 20, according to President Vladimir Putin’s special representative on Afghanistan. In comments broadcast by Russian news outlets on Thursday, Zamir Kabulov, the representative, did not disclose any other specifics about the planned […]
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Fri 08 October 2021: Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani allegedly took millions of cash with him when he left the country, according to US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John Sopko, and his office would look into allegations. Ghani has stated that he fled Kabul to avoid bloodshed and that he did not […]
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Thu 07 October 2021: According to the Afghan Ministry of Higher Education, government universities would reopen for students soon. The acting minister of higher education, Abdul Baqi Haqqani, said “the preparation and plans are being completed and soon the universities related to the Islamic Emirate will also be opened and the education will continue.” […]
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Thu 07 October 2021: Merck announced a supply and purchase deal with Singapore on Wednesday, ensuring access to its experimental oral COVID-19 antiviral medicine. Singapore is the latest Asian country to request supplies. The drug Molnupiravir is designed to introduce errors into the genetic code of the coronavirus and would be the first oral antiviral […]
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Wed 06 October 2021: According to the Malaysian Foreign Ministry, the Chinese Ambassador has been summoned to protest the “encroachment” of Chinese vessels in Malaysia’s Exclusive Economic Zone. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (on Monday) called in the Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to convey Malaysia’s positions and protest the presence and activities of Chinese vessels, including a survey vessel, in Malaysia’s Exclusive Economic Zone off the coasts of Sabah and Sarawak,” the Malaysian Foreign Ministry […]
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Wed 06 October 2021: The recent announcement by Prosecutor for International Criminal Court (ICC) Karim Khan to resume investigations into war crimes in Afghanistan, after Taliban’s return to power, by excluding the earlier probes, drew strong reaction from the global rights activists. The statement made clear the investigation would essentially exclude war crimes committed by […]
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