Sat 14 August 2021: Japan has ordered the evacuation of 1.23 million people in four southwestern provinces over the heavy rainfall, media reported on Saturday. The evacuation was ordered for residents of the prefectures of Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the NHK broadcaster reported, citing the data of regional authorities. In the town of Kurume […]
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Fri 13 August 2021: On Friday, the Taliban released a statement saying that key officials from the western Afghan province of Herat had joined the Islamist Movement. The Taliban armed group has captured the provincial capitals, Qalat, Terenkot, Pul-e Alam, Feruz Koh, Qala-e Naw and Lashkar Gah, hours after capturing Herat and Kandahar cities. It […]
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Fri 13 August 2021: Hospitals in Bangladesh are no longer able to accommodate COVID-19 patients due to the Delta-driven coronavirus surge across the country, the health minister said on Thursday. The coronavirus situation would be out of control if the prevailing pandemic situation gets worse, said Zahid Maleque. “Hospitals in the country were no longer […]
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Fri 13 August 2021: The Taliban has been fighting the Western-backed Afghan government in Kabul since it was removed from power in 2001. It originally drew members from so-called “mujahideen” fighters who, with support from the United States, repelled Soviet forces in the 1980s. The group emerged in 1994 as one of the factions fighting […]
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Thu 12 August 2021: A 45-year-old Muslim man in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur town was paraded through a street, assaulted and made to chant “Jai Shri Ram” slogans on Wednesday. He was eventually handed over to the police. Distressing footage of the incident shot by locals shows the man’s little daughter clinging on to him and […]
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Thu 12 August 2021: On Thursday, former President Donald Trump criticized his successor, Joe Biden, for not putting conditions on the US exit from Afghanistan, saying that a violent Taliban surge in the war-torn country was “unacceptable.” Trump said the US pullout, which Biden has set for August 31 and which is already all but […]
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Thu 12 August 2021: Imran Khan, Pakistan’s prime minister, has accused the US of seeing his country as only valuable in the context of the “mess” it is leaving behind in Afghanistan after 20 years of fighting. “Pakistan is just considered only to be useful in the context of somehow settling this mess which has […]
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Thu 12 August 2021: Saudi Arabia and India have started their first ever joint naval exercise just a week after tensions escalated in the Gulf of Oman following an attack on an Israeli-linked tanker. With Saudi Arabi being a vital source of oil for India — its second largest supplier after Iraq — the two […]
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Thu 12 August 2021: On Thursday, the Taliban took control of Ghazni, the ninth provincial capital in a week, Reuters reported. While US intelligence warned that the capital, Kabul, just 150 kilometers to the northeast, may fall to the insurgents within 90 days. A senior security official said the Taliban had captured Ghazni, which is […]
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Thu 12 August 2021: An Indian rocket carrying a powerful earth observation satellite failed to launch fully on Thursday, a setback for the country’s space program, according to the state-run space agency. “GSLV [Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle]-F10 launch took place on August 12, 2021 at 0543 Hrs IST as scheduled. Performance of first and second […]
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