Wed 18 August 2021: Afghanistan may be governed by a ruling council now that the Taliban has taken over, while the Islamist terrorist movement’s supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, would likely remain in overall charge, a senior member of the group told Reuters. The Taliban would also reach out to former pilots and soldiers from the […]
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Wed 18 August 2021: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has arrived in the United Arab Emirates, according to the UAE administration, after fleeing his nation as Taliban forces advanced on Kabul. “The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation can confirm that the UAE has welcomed President Ashraf Ghani and his family into the country […]
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Wed 18 August 2021: On Wednesday, Afghan Defense Minister Bismillah Khan Mohammadi called on Interpol to arrest Ashraf Ghani, who abdicated and fled from Afghanistan, for “selling away the motherland.” “Those trading and selling out their motherland should be punished and arrested,” Mohammadi wrote on Twitter, adding hashtag #InterpolArrestGhani. On Wednesday, the Afghan embassy in […]
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On Wednesday, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) urged wealthy countries to increase vaccine sharing with Southeast Asia, which has recently experienced the world’s highest coronavirus mortality rates due to the spread of the highly transmissible Delta strain. According to John Hopkins University, 38,552 COVID-19 fatalities have been reported in […]
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Wed 18 August 2021: China will adopt digital driving licenses nationwide in 2022, according to Li Guozhong, a spokesperson for the Chinese public security ministry. Digital driving licenses are now accessible as a trial program in only three locations. “The Ministry of Public Security has started to issue digital driving licenses in Tianjin, Chengdu and […]
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Wed 18 August 2021: Nearly 1,000 civilians have been killed in Myanmar since the February 1 coup, says the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), an activist group that records killings by the country’s security forces. “According to AAPP records, 1,001 innocent people have been killed,” AAPP secretary Tate Naing told the Reuters news agency […]
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Wed 18 August 2021: The Taliban have declared the “20 years of bloody war” and “occupation by foreign forces” are over as the group gears up to establish what it calls “the Islamic government” in Afghanistan. In his maiden news conference in the Afghan capital Kabul, the group’s spokesman Zabiullah Mujahed said the safety and […]
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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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