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-- 2021-08-24 17:38:45
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Tuesday called for the international community to donate $200 million in food aid for Afghanistan so essential supplies can be delivered to remote regions before w...
-- 2021-08-24 17:34:34
Western forces at Kabul airport worked frantically on Tuesday to get people out of Afghanistan before an Aug 31 deadline, as US President Joe Biden faced growing pressure to negotiate more time for th...
FE Online Desk 2021-08-24 17:28:51
The World Health Organization (WHO) only has enough supplies in Afghanistan to last for a week after deliveries of medical equipment from abroad were blocked by restrictions at Kabul airport, a senior...
-- 2021-08-24 16:08:34
The Taliban have appointed a new finance minister, an intelligence chief, and an acting interior minister in Afghanistan, the Pajhwok news agency reported on Tuesday. It said Gul Agha would be the fi...
-- 2021-08-24 15:48:09
At a factory in Sri Lanka's Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia city, workers use staples and glue to assemble long cardboard boxes, which will be used as coffins for some of the country's coronavirus victims. Th...
-- 2021-08-24 15:15:54
A Ukrainian plane in Afghanistan to evacuate its citizens was hijacked and diverted to Iran, reports quoted a Ukraine Minister as saying, according to ndtv.com.The plane had reportedly arrived last we...
-- 2021-08-24 13:50:45
Less than a month into a Covid-19 vaccine booster drive, Israel is seeing signs of an impact on the country's high infection and severe illness rates fuelled by the fast-spreading Delta variant, offic...
-- 2021-08-24 13:25:59
Kathy Hochul became the first female governor of New York at the stroke of midnight Tuesday, taking control of a state government desperate to get back to business after months of distractions over se...
REUTERS 2021-08-24 12:49:40
Israeli warplanes bombed Hamas sites in Gaza in response to incendiary balloons launched from the Palestinian enclave that caused brush fires in southern Israel, its military said early on Tuesday, Re...
-- 2021-08-24 12:33:51
New Zealand on Tuesday recorded its highest increase in COVID-19 cases since April 2020, but authorities said the numbers were not rising exponentially and the majority of the cases were still in cent...
-- 2021-08-24 12:07:24
The top commander of a militant group and his deputy, allegedly involved in dozens of target killings, died in a shootout, Indian police in Kashmir said on Monday. Abbas Sheikh, chief of the militant...
-- 2021-08-24 10:03:37
With thousands of desperate Afghans and foreigners massed at Kabul's airport in the hope of fleeing Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers, US President Joe Biden is expected to decide as soon as Tuesday on...
-- 2021-08-24 00:23:57
The US gave full approval to Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine Monday, a milestone that could boost public confidence in the shots and spur more companies, universities and local governments to make vac...
-- 2021-08-23 21:47:41
The Russian and British empires battled over Afghanistan in the 19th century, and the United States and the Soviet Union in the 20th. As the Taliban takes over in the strategic, landlocked nation, the...
-- 2021-08-23 21:04:12
Ethiopia has begun developing its own social media platform to rival Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp. However, the communications security agency of the country on Monday said it will not block the gl...
-- 2021-08-23 20:58:56
The US drug regulator on Monday granted full approval to the Pfizer Inc/BioNTech SE COVID-19 vaccine that earned emergency-use authorisation in December, making it the first to secure such Food and Dr...
FE ONLINE DESK 2021-08-23 20:07:55
The Taliban, which recently seized power in Afghanistan, has warned that the United States and its allies will suffer ‘consequences’ if they extend the presence of troops in Afghanistan be...
-- 2021-08-23 18:34:48
More than 500 tonnes of medical supplies including surgical equipment and severe malnutrition kits due to be delivered to Afghanistan this week are stuck because of Kabul airport restrictions, the Wor...
FE ONLINE DESK 2021-08-23 15:00:16
The coronavirus pandemic, one of humanity’s worst public health crisis in the past century, was nonetheless a boon for China’s edtech industry, as the internet and digital technology enabl...
-- 2021-08-23 14:11:44
US Vice President Kamala Harris said on Monday during a visit to Singapore that the United States was focusing on evacuation efforts taking place in Afghanistan and that there would be plenty of time...
-- 2021-08-23 12:48:02
A firefight broke out between unidentified gunmen, Western security forces and Afghan guards at Kabul airport on Monday, Germany's armed forces said, as thousands of Afghans and foreigners thronged th...
-- 2021-08-23 10:22:13
Climate change activists climbed the outside of the headquarters of the City of London's government on Sunday as they began two weeks of protests focused on the capital's financial district. About 20...
-- 2021-08-23 10:19:16
t least 22 people were killed and rescue crews searched desperately Sunday amid shattered homes and tangled debris for dozens of people still missing after record-breaking rain sent floodwaters surgin...
-- 2021-08-23 10:17:57
Afghans who manage to make the weeks-long journey through Iran on foot to the Turkish border face a three-metre high wall, ditches or barbed wire as Turkish authorities step up efforts to block any re...
-- 2021-08-23 10:07:09
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said his government will make lump-sum payments to retirees and military personnel this year to help them cope with a stronger-than-expected spike in inflation, th...
-- 2021-08-22 23:03:39
The son of Ahmad Shah Massoud, who was one of the main leaders of Afghanistan's anti-Soviet resistance in the 1980s, said he will not surrender areas under his control to the Taliban, Dubai-based al-A...
-- 2021-08-22 22:25:34
Activating a plan used only twice before, the Biden administration on Sunday ordered the use of commercial aircraft to help ferry people evacuated from Afghanistan. Chaotic scenes continue at the air...
-- 2021-08-22 21:42:10
An Afghan woman has given birth to a baby girl onboard an evacuation flight that was taking people from Kabul Airport of Afghanistan to Germany. US Air Mobility Command posted a Twitter thread about...
-- 2021-08-22 21:35:13
Haiti’s Civil Protection Agency said Sunday that the toll from this month’s magnitude 7.2 earthquake has grown to 2,207, with 344 people still missing. The previous figure had been 2,189...
-- 2021-08-22 20:25:49
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he had called a G7 leaders’ meeting on Tuesday to discuss the crisis in Afghanistan and urged the international community to find ways to prevent it fro...
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