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NEW YORK: Underlining the tough choices available in Afghanistan, UN Special Representative Deborah Lyons said continued global engagement and commitment to the country's people can help steer the situation to its best possible outcome. Speaking at a...
KABUL: The Taliban have closed the bank accounts of some officials from the former Ashraf Ghani government, most of them who fled Afghanistan after the August 15 fall of Kabul, the media reported. The announcement was made on Thursday by Anaamullah Samangani,...
MOSCOW: Farewell to Yevgeny Zinichev is taking place in the building of the Ministry of Emergency Situations on Vatutin Street in Moscow. The head of the ministry died on September 8 at an interdepartmental exercise in Norilsk, trying to save film director...
MOSCOW: Britain has refused to consider visa applications from several TASS employees, given a job assignment in that country, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told a news briefing on Thursday. "[BBC correspondent] Sarah Rainsford...
SYDNEY: Australia and France currently have a Status of Forces Agreement – which sets out how the forces of each country should operate together – but are exploring options to provide greater access to each other’s militaries. The talks could eventually...
KABUL: Deborah Lyons, the UN secretary-general’s special representative on Afghanistan, called on the world at least to give a chance to the victorious Taliban as the Islamist insurgents turn to governance and confront a dire economic crisis. “A modus...
NEW DELHI: India, China, Russia, other BRICS nations refrain from calling out Taliban for lack of inclusivity in its govt for Afghanistan! New Delhi:India on Thursday joined the other BRICS nations to call for inclusive dialogue within Afghanistan, although...
Canberra: Australia's New South Wales state, the epicentre of the country's worst outbreak, reported on Friday 1,542 new locally acquired Covid-19 cases, its biggest one-day rise in the pandemic, topping the previous high of 1,533 hit last week. SEP 10,...
DUSHANBE: After the Taliban's siege of Afghanistan, the Russian military base in Tajikistan has been reinforced with new machine guns. A batch of 12.7-mm heavy machine guns NSV" Utes "entered service with the 201st Russian military base in Tajikistan...
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to travel to the US to meet President Joe Biden and participate in the Quad Summit-level meeting on September 24. The visit was tentative after uncertainty over Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's...
KABUL: The US National Security Council (NSC) on Thursday confirmed that the chartered Qatar Airways flight from Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA) has successfully landed in Qatar. The flight has carried US citizens and lawful permanent residents...
Hong Kong: Hong Kong police on Thursday raided a museum commemorating Beijing's deadly crackdown on Tiananmen Square in 1989, a day after they arrested four members of the group that ran the venue. The raid came as police accused one of the four arrestees...