Wed 18 August 2021: Two days after the Taliban took effective control of Afghanistan, Facebook will continue its ban on Taliban content on its platforms because it considers the organization a terrorist group, the social media giant told the BBC on Tuesday. “The Taliban is sanctioned as a terrorist organization under US law and we […]
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Tue 17 August 2021: The failure in Afghanistan should have been admitted earlier, while now it is important to learn lessons and avoid repetition of mistakes, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev told Sputnik on Tuesday. “The failure should have been admitted earlier. Now it is important to learn lessons and to at least avoid repetition […]
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Tue 17 August 2021: Since 2001, the United States has spent $2.26 trillion in Afghanistan, the Costs of War Project at Brown University calculates – an investment that has yielded a chaotic, humiliating end to America’s longest war. By Patricia Sabga There is no shortage of benchmarks to count the cost of the United States’ longest […]
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Tue 17 August 2021: Malaysia’s king on Tuesday urged rival politicians to unite to battle a worsening coronavirus outbreak as the hunt began for a new prime minister, an opposition leader said. Analysts said the monarch, who appoints the premier, was trying to push the country’s political parties towards forming a unity government following Muhyiddin […]
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Tue 17 August 2021: Most Western media outlets are carrying headlines and hype about the return of the Taliban to Afghanistan after the fighting force swept through the country at a blistering pace which has left military strategists gasping. Within 24 hours of making his “I am staying” speech, President Ashraf Ghani fled from Kabul […]
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Tue 17 August 2021: As a result of criticism over the emerging crisis in Afghanistan, Joe Biden’s approval rating has plummeted to its lowest point in his White House tenure. The president has a 50 percent approval rating, according to FiveThirtyEight’s tracker, which compiles a weighted average of surveys. Biden is facing harsh criticism over […]
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Tue 17 August 2021: Human Rights Watch on Monday called for a United Nations probe into the alleged enforced disappearances of Bangladesh’ opposition activists, demanding sanctions on the officials found responsible. The rights watchdog released a report identifying 86 political activists, businessmen, and student members of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party who went missing over the past […]
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Mon 16 August 2021: US President Joe Biden is defending his decision to withdraw US forces, claiming the mission “was never supposed to be about nation-building.” “It was never supposed to be creating a unified, centralised democracy,” Biden said. “I’ve argued for many years that our mission should be narrowly focused on counterterrorism, not counter-insurgency […]
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Mon 16 August 2021: According to local media, the support rate for Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s cabinet has dropped to a historic low of 31.8 percent, down 4.1 points from a month earlier, and 65.1 percent of respondents do not want Suga to stay in office. The disapproval rating increased by 0.8 points to 50.6 percent, the highest level on record since the launch of the Suga cabinet last September. According to the nationwide telephone survey conducted from Friday to Monday, 64.7 percent of respondents want the Tokyo Paralympics, which will open next Tuesday, to […]
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Mon 16 August 2021: Indonesia’s most active volcano Mount Merapi erupted Monday, belching a cloud of ash into the air as red lava flowed down its crater. The early morning explosions spewed clouds as far as 3.5 kilometres (2 miles) from the rumbling volcano, blanketing local communities in grey ash. There were no evacuation orders or reports of casualties. Merapi, close to Indonesia’s […]
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