Wed 22 September 2021: Taliban have asked to address world leaders at the United Nations in New York this week and nominated their Doha-based spokesman Suhail Shaheen as Afghanistan’s UN ambassador, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Tuesday. Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi made the request in a letter to UN Secretary-General […]
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Wed 22 September 2021: All Indian children aged 12 or older will become eligible for COVID-19 vaccinations from next month, when drug maker Cadila Healthcare launches its ZyCoV-D product, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The world’s first DNA-based COVID-19 vaccine, ZyCoV-D won emergency authorization from Indian regulators last month. From […]
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Wed 22 September 2021: World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned that the Afghanistan health sector is on the verge of collapse but that the organization would help as much as it could. Ghebreyesus, who visited hospitals in Kabul this week, said it was heartbreaking to hear from overworked nurses that […]
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Tue 21 September 2021: President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday vowed to “act jointly” in the Indo-Pacific region, the French presidency said, as a row with Australia and the US intensifies. In telephone talks, both leaders said they would “act jointly in an open and inclusive Indo-Pacific area”, days after […]
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Tue 21 September 2021: The Secretary-General of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, Sheikh Dr. Ali Al-Qari Daghi, called on the United Nations and the world, especially Islamic countries, to recognize the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and assist it in promoting security, stability and development in the country. To free the country’s frozen money. Dr […]
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Tue 21 September 2021: The world’s richest 500 people lost a combined $135 billion as a result of a global stock market sparked by fears over China Evergrande Group. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Elon Musk of Tesla Inc. led the declines, with his world-leading net worth falling $7.2 billion to $198 billion. Number […]
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Mon 20 September 2021: The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has condemned the US drone strike that killed 10 Afghan civilians in Kabul and said the United States should take responsibility for past killings and atrocities. The United States carried out an airstrike on August 29 on a residential house in Kabul’s 15th district, claiming at […]
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Mon 20 September 2021: New Delhi, India – It is a humid and sweaty morning. The nearby drain, overflowing with overnight monsoon rains, stinks. A few metres away, pigs rummage through the rubbish. But the weather or stink does not dissuade Bapu Nishtar Singh, who has been protesting for nearly 10 months against a set of […]
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Sun 19 September 2021: Manny Pacquiao, a Filipino boxing legend and politician, has announced that he will run for president in the 2022 elections. On Sunday, Pacquiao accepted his PDP-Laban party’s candidacy at its national convention, saying that the Filipino people had been longing for a change of administration. “I am a fighter, and I […]
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Sun 19 September 2021: A Taliban spokesman in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz has urged the international community to increase help to the country, emphasizing that the Taliban are not terrorists. Provincial spokesman Matiullah Ruhani said aid could take the form of investment, reconstruction projects “or any kind of humanitarian support for the government […]
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