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Geneva: The UN on Friday condemned the Taliban's increasingly violent response to peaceful protests, including using live rounds that killed several people, and warned that nearly all Afghan households weren't getting enough to eat. "We call on the Taliban...
New Delhi: India will host the first-ever 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue with Australia on Saturday (September 11, 2021) in the national capital. The countries will discuss a slew of issues which includes economic security, cyber, climate, critical technology...
Washington::On the Friday after 9/11, President George W. Bush visited the New York City site that the world would come to know as Ground Zero. After rescue workers shouted that they couldn’t hear him as he spoke to them through a bullhorn, he turned...
Belfast: The European Union rejected a British demand to renegotiate their deal governing the trading position of Northern Ireland, saying that to so would only bring instability and uncertainty. European Commission Vice-President Maros Sefcovic, who...
Washington: US Special Envoy for the North Korea Sung Kim will be visiting Tokyo, Japan, on September 13-15 to discuss the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula , the State Department said in a release on Friday. "US Special Representative for the...
Kabul: When hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Centre in the United States, Afghans were still reeling from their own Al-Qaeda tragedy. Militants from the group had two days earlier assassinated Ahmad Shah Massoud- the resistance icon who repelled...
MOSCOW: On Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin attended the final farewell ceremony for late Emergencies Minister Yevgeny Zinichev held in the building of the ministry’s National Crisis Management Center. The official mourning ceremony, which started...
WASHINGTON: President Biden and China’s Xi Jinping reminisced about their past meetings during a 90-minute call that was billed as an effort to calm political and economic tensions between the two superpowers The lengthy call was only the second conversation...
NEW DELHI: Australian Defence Minister Peter Dutton on Thursday said that India's leadership is essential to Australia's Indo-Pacific strategy and noted that the two countries share one of the world's important oceans and want a stable, resilient and...
LONDON: The United Kingdom stopped as many as 31 'late-stage' terrorist plots in the past four years, the chief of the country's domestic-counter intelligence and security agency MI5, Ken McCallum said on Friday while pointing out the risks that the Taliban's...
WEST BANK: Ramallah, Palestinian Territories: The Israeli army made more arrests on Friday of relatives of six escaped Palestinian prisoners, an advocacy body said, as troops kept up a massive manhunt in the occupied West Bank. Israel has poured troops...
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...