‘INDIA MAY BE ENTERING ENDEMIC STAGE OF COVID’: WHO CHIEF SCIENTIST

Tue 24 August 2021: COVID-19 in India may be entering some kind of stage of endemicity where there is low or moderate level of transmission going on, Chief Scientist of the World Health Organisation Dr Soumya Swaminathan said. The endemic stage is when a population learns to live with a virus. It’s very different from […]

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G7 WILL DISCUSS WHETHER TO RECOGNIZE TALIBAN AS AFGHAN GOVERNMENT -CNN

Tue 24 August 2021: The leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) countries are planning to discuss the possible recognition of the Taliban government in Afghanistan, CNN reported on Tuesday. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who is hosting the meeting as the current G7 president, is advocating for a unified approach to the Taliban, according […]

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RUSSIA READY TO DISCUSS AFGHANISTAN WITH OTHER PERMANENT MEMBERS OF UN

Tue 24 August 2021: Russia is ready to discuss Afghanistan with the other permanent members of the UN Security Council, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov assured on Tuesday. “If someone suspects us again of seeking to block the work of the security council, this is not true, For example, French President [Emmanuel Macron] recently proposed in […]

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SOUTH AFRICA, BANGLADESH DISCUSS AGRICULTURAL COOPERATION

Tue 24 August 2021: Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (DALRRD) Minister Thoko Didiza and Bangladesh Foreign Affairs Minister, Dr Abdul Momen, have agreed to set up a technical team to review and finalise the Memorandum of Understanding, in line with the DALRRD mandate. The follows a meeting between Didiza and Momen held on Monday […]

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“AMERICA IS RIGHT TO ACCEPT DEFEAT IN AFGHANISTAN” – RETIRED U.S. ARMY CAPTAIN DAN BERSCHINSKI

Tue 24 August 2021: Radio Islam International · Retired U.S. Army Captain Dan Berschinski speaks about the US War in Afghanistan A retired U.S. Army Captain who served in Afghanistan says America is right to accept defeat in Afghanistan. Dan Berschinski, who was severely wounded in Afghanistan in 2009 was speaking to Radio Islam about […]

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UN TO START OPERATIONS IN CONTROVERSIAL ROHINGYA ISLAND FROM SEPTEMBER

Tue 24 August 2021: The UN is set to begin its aid operations for Rohingya refugees, who have been relocated to a remote Bangladeshi island despite international oppositions on safety grounds, according to official sources on Tuesday. “Bangladesh expects to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the United Nations (UN) next week to ensure […]

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CANADA WILL SUPPORT G7 SANCTIONS AGAINST THE TALIBAN, TRUDEAU SAYS

Mon 23 August 2021: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada will join the push to put sanctions on the Taliban, during a G7 summit on Tuesday, The United Kingdom will be pushing other G7 members to impose additional sanctions on the Taliban, which seized control of Afghanistan last Sunday when the group of advanced […]

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1M AFGHAN CHILDREN COULD DIE OF MALNUTRITION, UNICEF WARNS

Mon 23 August 2021: An estimated one million Afghan children are projected to suffer from severe acute malnutrition over the course of this year and could die without treatment, the UN warned on Monday. In a statement, UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore said around 10 million children across Afghanistan need humanitarian assistance to survive. She […]

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CHINA REPORTS ZERO LOCAL VIRUS CASES AS DELTA OUTBREAK RETREATS

Mon 23 August 2021: China reported no new domestic coronavirus cases Monday, and Beijing appears poised to bring to heel the pandemic’s most serious resurgence in months — driven by the highly contagious Delta variant — with mass testing and targeted lockdowns. The latest outbreak, which began in mid-July when cleaners at a Nanjing airport […]

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TURKEY CAN’T BEAR AFGHAN REFUGEE BURDEN FOR EUROPEAN UNION: RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN

Mon 23 August 2021: Turkey cannot bail out the EU by taking in Afghans who worked for Western countries in Afghanistan as the Taliban take power there, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday. “We have received a request to welcome local employees of a European Union mission in Afghanistan,” a government statement quoted Erdogan […]

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