Tue 31 August 2021: China has banned under-18s from playing video games for more than three hours per week, Reuters reported. Chinese government said the need for a strict social intervention to combat a rising addiction to what it formerly referred to as “spiritual opium.” The new laws, which went into effect on Monday, are […]
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Tue 31 August 2021: On Tuesday, the Taliban celebrated their victory over the US and return to power after a two-decade conflict, by firing guns into the air and offering words of reconciliation. Just two weeks earlier, Taliban fighters had taken Kabul and toppled the government without force as President Ashraf Ghani fled the country. It was […]
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Tue 31 August 2021: The coronavirus disease may have entered Wuhan via frozen food imported from another country, according to the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The first cases were recorded in Wuhan in December 2019, with the original patients being linked in some manner to regional seafood markets. The location of the […]
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Tue 31 August 2021: The United States declared on Monday that it has completed its efforts to remove all of its forces from Afghanistan, bringing an end to the country’s longest war. The pullout and military efforts to evacuate Americans and at-risk Afghans from the war-torn country have come to an end, according to US […]
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Mon 30 August 2021: Turkey may consider operating the airport servicing Afghanistan’s capital Kabul if the conditions are suitable and it is requested to do so, the Turkish minister of national defense said on Monday. Speaking during a visit to the State Cemetery in Turkey’s capital Ankara to mark the country’s annual Victory Day, Hulusi […]
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Mon 30 August 2021: UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Representative in Afghanistan, Herve De Lys, said on Monday at least seven children were killed in the Afghan capital of Kabul during a drone strike, yet the agency is unaware who carried out the attack. On Sunday, the US has reported carrying out drone strikes against The […]
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Mon 30 August 2021: Multiple rockets were fired at Kabul’s international airport but were intercepted by a missile defense system, a US official told Reuters citing initial information. The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said as many as five rockets were fired, though it was not clear if all were brought down by […]
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Sun 29 August 2021: Turkey is prepared to provide all kinds of support to Afghanistan, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday. “Turkey is ready to provide all kinds of support for Afghanistan’s recovery if it adopts a similar attitude,” the president told reporters on a plane trip as they were returning from an official visit […]
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Sun 29 August 2021: According to the Taliban’s acting higher education minister, Afghan women would be allowed to attend university, but mixed classes will be prohibited under their rule. The Islamist group that swept to power in mid-August after deposing the Western-backed government has promised to govern differently than they did in the 1990s, when […]
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Sun 29 August 2021: Jai Shri Ram bolne main kya hai (What’s the harm in saying Jai Shri Ram?)” “Meri Baat Suno (Listen To Me)” “Jai Shri Ram bolna padega, bol Jai Shri Ram (You will have to chant Jai Shri Ram)” “Chalo theek hai, Jai Shri Ram, Jai Shri Ram, ab khush (Okay, Jai Shri Ram. You are Happy now)”. WATCH […]
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