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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sun 22 August 2021: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and UN chief Antonio Guterres held a telephone conversation on Sunday to discuss Afghanistan. “The Prime Minister spoke to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres again today about the situation in Afghanistan. He stressed that the UN must be central to both the humanitarian response to the […]
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Sun 22 August 2021: President Vladimir Putin on Sunday rejected the idea of sending people evacuation from Afghanistan to countries near Russia, saying he did not want “militants showing up here under cover of refugees”, Russian news agencies reported. Putin criticised an idea of some Western countries to relocate refugees from Afghanistan to neighbouring Central […]
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