Sun 22 August 2021: Former US President Donald Trump told his supporters in Cullman, Alabama, that the recent developments in Afghanistan are a major failure of the current US administration’s foreign policy and a great military defeat that demonstrates Washington’s incompetence. Trump said at the Saturday Save America rally in Cullman that the world is […]
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Sun 22 August 2021: Turkey and Pakistan are set to co-produce a television series on the life of Salahuddin al-Ayyubi, a revered Muslim general popularly known in the West as Saladin. Having welcomed the project offer from Pakistan’s Ansari amp; Shah Films, producer Emre Konuk, owner of Turkey’s Akli Films, announced on Saturday that they […]
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Sat 21 August 2021: US soldiers stationed at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport are providing pork-containing meal packages to Afghans who are desperate for a way out of the country. An Afghan woman, who is stranded at the airport with her children and husband, posted a photo of the food parcel on Instagram. “Feeding us […]
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Sat 21 August 2021: Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone conversation with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday with a focus on the current situation in Afghanistan. The presidents underlined the importance of ensuring peace and stability in Afghanistan as well as the strict observance of law and order, the Kremlin said […]
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Sat 21 August 2021: Outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday that Afghanistan did not pose an immediate terrorist threat to the international community. “Of course, after the completion of the evacuation mission, it will be necessary to say what has been achieved in Afghanistan and what has not. Currently, there is no acute […]
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Sat 21 August 2021: Japan has gifted over 781,000 more shots of Oxford-AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine to Bangladesh, the Bangladesh Embassy in Japan said in a statement late Friday. “Today, the 4th batch of AstraZeneca vaccine has been dispatched from Japan … and is scheduled to reach Dhaka on 21 August 2021,” a Facebook post read. […]
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Sat 21 August 2021: Returning to power in Afghanistan after a 20-year absence, the Taliban have regained control of natural resources that a former mines minister of the country once said could be worth up to $3 trillion. That estimate was made toward the end of the last commodities supercycle in 2010 and could be […]
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Sat 21 August 2021: China will now allow couples to legally have a third child as it seeks to hold off a demographic crisis that could threaten its hopes of increased prosperity and global influence. The ceremonial legislature on Friday amended the Population and Family Planning Law as part of a decades-long effort by the […]
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Sat 21 August 2021: The Taliban’s co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar arrived in Kabul on Saturday for talks with fellow members of the group and other politicians on establishing a new Afghan government. “He will be in Kabul to meet jihadi leaders and politicians for an inclusive government set-up,” a senior Taliban official told AFP. […]
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Sat 21 August 2021: A video of men dancing with weapons has been viewed millions of times on social media, claiming that it shows Taliban fighters celebrating after capturing the Afghan capital in August 2021. The claim is false: the video has been circulating online since March 2021 and is apparently from a wedding event […]
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