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Kabul airport to be ready for international flights in 3 days: Report
A media report citing Taliban officials and technical teams said on Thursday that the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul will be ready for...
Halt booster shots till year end, urges WHO chief
The head of the World Health Organization is calling on rich countries with large supplies of coronavirus vaccines to refrain from offering booster...
Sri Lanka facing severe foreign exchange crisis: Finance Minister...
Sri Lanka is facing a severe foreign exchange crisis as the island nation, which heavily depends on tourism and tea exports, was battered by the...
UN nuke watchdog: Iran pressing on with uranium enrichment
The UN atomic watchdog said on Tuesday that Iran has continued to increase its stockpile of highly enriched uranium that could be used to make nuclear...
41 dead, 80 hurt in Indonesian prison fire
A massive fire raged through an overcrowded prison near Indonesia’s capital early Wednesday, killing at least 41 inmates, two of them foreigners...
Governance will be regulated by Holy Sharia: Taliban
The Taliban drew from its inner high echelons to fill top posts in Afghanistan’s new government on Tuesday, including an associate of the Islamist...
Taliban govt puts end to ‘anarchy’: China
China on Wednesday said the new interim administration announced by the Taliban has put an end to “anarchy” in Afghanistan, terming it as a “necessary...
China may try to sort out issues with Taliban: Biden
US President Joe Biden said on Tuesday he was certain China would try to work out an arrangement with the Taliban after the Islamic insurgents seized...