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Afghans with legal papers can travel after Aug 31 deadline, Taliban assures Germany

Afghans with legal papers can travel after Aug 31 deadline, Taliban assures Germany

-- 2021-08-26 10:07:01

The Taliban have told Germany that Afghans with legal documents will be able to travel on commercial flights beyond the Aug. 31 cut-off date after which evacuations from Kabul airport will no longer b...

Taliban seek Turkish support to run Kabul airport

Taliban seek Turkish support to run Kabul airport

REUTERS 2021-08-26 10:00:17

The Taliban have asked Turkey for technical help to run Kabul airport after the departure of foreign forces but insist that Ankara's military also withdraw fully by the end-August deadline, two Turkis...

Western nations rush to complete Afghan evacuation

Western nations rush to complete Afghan evacuation

-- 2021-08-26 09:55:10

Western nations scrambled to evacuate people from Afghanistan on Wednesday but acknowledged that many Afghans who helped during two decades of war would be left behind to face an uncertain fate under...

Taliban tell working women to stay at home

Taliban tell working women to stay at home

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-08-25 21:18:10

Working women in Afghanistan must stay at home until proper systems are in place to ensure their safety, a Taliban spokesman has told reporters. "It's a very temporary procedure," spokesman Zabihulla...

Saudi Arabia approves Sinovac, Sinopharm vaccines

Saudi Arabia approves Sinovac, Sinopharm vaccines

-- 2021-08-25 19:33:09

Saudi Arabia has approved two more COVID-19 vaccines, developed by two China’s Sinovac Biotech Ltd and China National Pharmaceutical Group Corporation that is commonly named as Sinopharm. With...

Iran prisons chief seeks rare apology as leaked video shows abuse inside prison

Iran prisons chief seeks rare apology as leaked video shows abuse inside prison

-- 2021-08-25 17:41:41

In a rare admission of abuse, the head of Iran's prisons apologised on Tuesday after videos, leaked by hackers, showed abuse of prisoners inside Tehran's Evin prison. A hacking group calling itself E...

China warns Tibet climate risks could soar

China warns Tibet climate risks could soar

-- 2021-08-25 11:45:07

Rapid climate change in China's Qinghai-Tibet plateau could destabilise water supplies and cause more frequent disasters, even though warmer temperatures have improved conditions in the short term, sc...

Taliban ask Afghans not to panic, get back to work

Taliban ask Afghans not to panic, get back to work

-- 2021-08-25 11:40:10

Ashraf Haidari, an economist at the Aghan finance ministry, was waiting anxiously at home when a call came from the Taliban: a commander ordered him back to work so he could help run the country once...

Israel quietly allows Jewish prayer at Al-Aqsa compound: NY Times

Israel quietly allows Jewish prayer at Al-Aqsa compound: NY Times

-- 2021-08-24 21:06:47

The Israeli government is allowing Jews to conduct prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied territory, disturbing the site’s status quo, The New York Times reports. Only Muslims w...

US shipping 3.0m doses of Pfizer vaccines to Pakistan

US shipping 3.0m doses of Pfizer vaccines to Pakistan

-- 2021-08-24 20:00:05

The United States will ship just over 3.0 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Pakistan via the COVAX global distribution program on Tuesday, bringing the total number of doses sent there to around 8....

'Wuhan lab leak theory regarding Covid origin more about politics than science'

'Wuhan lab leak theory regarding Covid origin more about politics than science'

-- 2021-08-24 19:46:48

The Wuhan lab leak theory is more about politics than science, The Guardian newspaper reported Sunday. Whatever this week's Biden review on the virus's origins finds, the cause of the pandemic lies i...

UN rights boss says she has credible reports of Taliban executions

UN rights boss says she has credible reports of Taliban executions

-- 2021-08-24 19:13:49

The UN human rights chief said on Tuesday that she had received credible reports of serious violations committed by the Taliban in Afghanistan, including "summary executions" of civilians and Afghan s...

Reuters photographer was killed after being left behind in retreat, says Afghan general

Reuters photographer was killed after being left behind in retreat, says Afghan general

-- 2021-08-24 19:01:57

As the Taliban's campaign to reconquer Afghanistan was gathering pace in June, hundreds of people were dying in the fighting, and tens of thousands were fleeing. Danish Siddiqui, a 38-year-old star ph...

Top US spy meets Taliban leader first time after takeover

Top US spy meets Taliban leader first time after takeover

-- 2021-08-24 18:29:39

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director of the United States William Burns has met Taliban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar in Kabul on Monday, according to an unnamed US official. US President Joe Bide...

UN calls for food aid for Afghanistan before winter

UN calls for food aid for Afghanistan before winter

-- 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...

West's Afghan evacuation on 'war footing'

West's Afghan evacuation on 'war footing'

-- 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...

Taliban appoint finance minister, intelligence chief in Afghanistan

Taliban appoint finance minister, intelligence chief in Afghanistan

-- 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...

Amid COVID surge, some Sri Lankans prefer cardboard coffins when cremating loved ones

Amid COVID surge, some Sri Lankans prefer cardboard coffins when cremating loved ones

-- 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...

Israel's Covid vaccine boosters show signs of taming Delta variant

Israel's Covid vaccine boosters show signs of taming Delta variant

-- 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...

Israel bombs Hamas sites in Gaza over fire balloons

Israel bombs Hamas sites in Gaza over fire balloons

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...

New Zealand sees highest spike in Covid cases since April 2020

New Zealand sees highest spike in Covid cases since April 2020

-- 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...

Indian police kill militant group commander in Kashmir

Indian police kill militant group commander in Kashmir

-- 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...

China, Pakistan, India compete for hegemony in new Afghanistan

China, Pakistan, India compete for hegemony in new Afghanistan

-- 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...

Leave Afghanistan by Aug 31 or suffer consequences, Taliban warns US

Leave Afghanistan by Aug 31 or suffer consequences, Taliban warns US

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...

500 tonnes of medical supplies for Afghans stuck at Kabul airport

500 tonnes of medical supplies for Afghans stuck at Kabul airport

-- 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...

Online eduction, e-commerce, social networking surge in China: Internet Report

Online eduction, e-commerce, social networking surge in China: Internet Report

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...

Firefight erupts at Kabul Airport, says Germany

Firefight erupts at Kabul Airport, says Germany

-- 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...

Afghanistan's Massoud says he will not surrender to Taliban

Afghanistan's Massoud says he will not surrender to Taliban

-- 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...

Afghanistan woman gives birth on US evacuation plane

Afghanistan woman gives birth on US evacuation plane

-- 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...

Taliban official blames US for 'evacuation drama'

Taliban official blames US for 'evacuation drama'

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-08-22 19:14:54

A senior Taliban official has accused the West of seeking “to create panic and chaos” in Afghanistan, following the Islamist group’s takeover of the capital Kabul. Speaking on Sunda...