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52 migrants feared dead as boat capsizes near Spain’s Canary Islands

52 migrants feared dead as boat capsizes near Spain’s Canary Islands

-- 2021-08-20 19:49:29

More than 50 people are feared dead after a boat capsized in the Atlantic Ocean about 220 kilometres (135 miles) off Spain’s Canary Islands. According to Al Jazeera, Spain’s Maritime Resc...

China turns three-child policy into law to boost birth rate

China turns three-child policy into law to boost birth rate

BBC 2021-08-20 18:48:43

China has turned the three-child policy into legislation to allow couples to have up to three children, to boost the birth rate. The regulation was one of several laws passed on Friday at a meeting o...

Taliban ransacks two Indian consulates in Afghanistan, takes away cars

Taliban ransacks two Indian consulates in Afghanistan, takes away cars

-- 2021-08-20 18:31:24

The Taliban has ransacked at least two of India's consulates and took away parked cars in Afghanistan on Wednesday, acting against the assurances given by its leaders to the world. They ransacked the...

Malaysia's new prime minister brings graft-tainted party back to power

Malaysia's new prime minister brings graft-tainted party back to power

REUTERS 2021-08-20 17:34:02

Malaysia's king appointed Ismail Sabri Yaakob as the prime minister on Friday, returning the job to a party tainted by graft accusations as the southeast Asian nation grapples with a COVID-19 surge an...

‘Ending environmentally damaging subsidies can create millions of green jobs’

‘Ending environmentally damaging subsidies can create millions of green jobs’

THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION 2021-08-20 16:40:58

Tens of millions of green jobs could be created if governments diverted one year's worth of the subsidies that are harming ecosystems and wildlife into spending that protects and restores nature, envi...

J&J wants to conduct COVID-19 vaccine trial among Indian adolescents

J&J wants to conduct COVID-19 vaccine trial among Indian adolescents

-- 2021-08-20 16:19:09

Johnson & Johnson has sought approval from Indian drug regulators to conduct a study of its COVID-19 vaccine among 12- to 17-year-olds, the company said on Friday. Conducting vaccine clinical tri...

Five killed, 30 injured as blast hits Ashura procession in Pakistan

Five killed, 30 injured as blast hits Ashura procession in Pakistan

-- 2021-08-20 15:48:36

At least five people were killed and over 30 others injured after a bomb went off near a procession of Shia Muslims in Pakistan's eastern Bahawalnagar district of Punjab province on Thursday, police s...

Deutsche Welle reporter's relative was killed by Taliban, says German broadcaster

Deutsche Welle reporter's relative was killed by Taliban, says German broadcaster

REUTERS 2021-08-20 14:54:23

Taliban fighters hunting a journalist with Deutsche Welle have shot dead one member of his family and severely injured another, the German public broadcaster said late on Thursday. The Islamist milit...

China passes new personal data privacy law that will take effect on Nov 1

China passes new personal data privacy law that will take effect on Nov 1

REUTERS 2021-08-20 14:40:06

China's National People's Congress on Friday officially passed a law designed to protect online user data privacy and will implement the policy starting November 1, according to state-media outlet Xin...

Actions or just words? Journalists question Taliban's free press commitment

Actions or just words? Journalists question Taliban's free press commitment

REUTERS 2021-08-20 14:24:38

Beaten, homes raided, turned away from work for being a woman: the complaints made by some Afghan journalists in recent days are sowing doubt about assurances made by their new Taliban rulers that ind...

NATO pledges to speed up evacuations from Afghanistan

NATO pledges to speed up evacuations from Afghanistan

REUTERS 2021-08-20 12:44:13

More than 18,000 people have been flown out of Kabul since the Taliban took over Afghanistan's capital, a NATO official said on Friday, pledging to redouble evacuation efforts as criticism of the West...

US sending more consular officers to facilitate Afghanistan evacuation

US sending more consular officers to facilitate Afghanistan evacuation

-- 2021-08-20 10:08:25

The U.S. State Department has said it was sending more consular officers to Kabul and other locations, including Qatar and Kuwait, to help with the evacuation effort from Afghanistan after the Taliban...

Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn secure Afghan users' accounts

Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn secure Afghan users' accounts

REUTERS 2021-08-20 10:00:51

Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn said this week they had moved to secure the accounts of Afghan citizens to protect them against being targeted amid the Taliban's swift takeover of the country. Faceboo...

Taliban inherits new US-made war chest

Taliban inherits new US-made war chest

-- 2021-08-20 10:00:29

About a month ago, Afghanistan's ministry of defense posted on social media photographs of seven brand new helicopters arriving in Kabul delivered by the United States. "They'll continue to see a ste...

Taliban call for Afghan unity as protests spread to Kabul

Taliban call for Afghan unity as protests spread to Kabul

REUTERS 2021-08-20 09:32:12

The Taliban called on Afghanistan's imams to urge unity when they hold their first Friday prayers since the Islamist group seized control of the country, as protests against the takeover spread to mor...

UNHCR issues non-return advisory for Afghanistan

UNHCR issues non-return advisory for Afghanistan

-- 2021-08-19 23:35:07

The UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, recently released a non-return advisory for Afghanistan, calling for a bar on forced returns of Afghan nationals, including asylum seekers who have had their claims r...

Washington DC: Active bomb threat near US Capitol

Washington DC: Active bomb threat near US Capitol

BBC 2021-08-19 23:26:55

Police are investigating an "active bomb threat" near the Congress building in Washington DC. US Capitol Police said they were negotiating with the driver of a suspicious vehicle near the Library of...

Planes, guns, night-vision goggles: The Taliban's new US-made war chest

Planes, guns, night-vision goggles: The Taliban's new US-made war chest

Reuters 2021-08-19 22:14:11

About a month ago, Afghanistan's ministry of defense posted on social media photographs of seven brand new helicopters arriving in Kabul delivered by the United States. "They'll continue to see a ste...

Taliban burn down an amusement park a day after they were enjoying rides

Taliban burn down an amusement park a day after they were enjoying rides

INDIA TIMES 2021-08-19 20:54:14

Taliban have allegedly burnt down an amusement park a day after they were seen enjoying rides following the capture of Kabul. The Taliban, some of them with weapons in hand, were seen enjoying a ride...

Son of slain Afghan hero Massoud vows resistance, seeks support

Son of slain Afghan hero Massoud vows resistance, seeks support

Reuters 2021-08-19 19:44:25

The son of Ahmad Shah Massoud, one of the main leaders of Afghanistan's anti-Soviet resistance in the 1980s, has pledged to hold out against the Taliban from his stronghold in the Panjshir valley. In...

Kolkata High Court orders federal probe into Bengal post-poll violence

Kolkata High Court orders federal probe into Bengal post-poll violence

UNB 2021-08-19 19:34:01

In a big setback for Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's government, a higher court in Kolkata on Thursday ordered a federal probe into the post-poll violence in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal....

Taliban intensifying hunt for collaborators of US, Nato: UN

Taliban intensifying hunt for collaborators of US, Nato: UN

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-08-19 19:28:35

A UN document says the Taliban is intensifying its hunt for all people who worked and collaborated with Nato and US forces, reports The BBC. The confidential paper was reportedly produced by the Norw...

Taliban's return clouds long-delayed plans for Afghanistan's resources

Taliban's return clouds long-delayed plans for Afghanistan's resources

REUTERS 2021-08-19 17:06:51

China is warily eyeing the resumption of some Afghan resource projects but it will take years before the infrastructure is ready while security issues threaten to once again stall projects, according...

Tremors strike Haitian city still reeling from earthquake

Tremors strike Haitian city still reeling from earthquake

REUTERS 2021-08-19 12:18:39

Tremors shook buildings late on Wednesday in the southern Haitian city of Les Cayes, a Reuters witness said, a few days after a devastating earthquake killed almost 2,200 people across the Caribbean n...

CPJ urges Taliban to immediately stop attacking journalists

CPJ urges Taliban to immediately stop attacking journalists

FE Online Report 2021-08-19 10:56:43

The Taliban must immediately cease attacking journalists and searching their homes, and allow members of the press to operate freely and without fear of violence or reprisal, said the Committee to Pro...

Taliban members go door-to-door telling fearful Afghans to work

Taliban members go door-to-door telling fearful Afghans to work

REUTERS 2021-08-19 10:15:43

Armed Taliban members knocked on doors in cities across Afghanistan on Wednesday, witnesses said, telling fearful residents to return to their jobs a day after the militants announced they wanted to r...

Three killed as Afghan protests test Taliban's promise of peace

Three killed as Afghan protests test Taliban's promise of peace

REUTERS 2021-08-19 09:20:00

At least three people were killed in anti-Taliban protests in the Afghan city of Jalalabad on Wednesday, witnesses said, as the Islamist group moved to consolidate power and Western countries ramped u...

UAE accepts Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on humanitarian grounds

UAE accepts Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on humanitarian grounds

REUTERS 2021-08-18 20:45:35

Afghanistan’s ousted President Ashraf Ghani is in the United Arab Emirates, the Gulf state's foreign ministry said on Wednesday, after he left his country as Taliban fighters seized control. "T...

British man jailed in Singapore for not wearing face mask in public

British man jailed in Singapore for not wearing face mask in public

REUTERS 2021-08-18 19:56:08

A Singapore court sentenced a British man to six weeks in prison on Wednesday, local media reported, after he repeatedly breached coronavirus protocols by refusing to wear a face mask in public. Benj...

Despite Taliban assurances, world frets again about Afghan militant havens

Despite Taliban assurances, world frets again about Afghan militant havens

-- 2021-08-18 19:31:23

Islamist groups around the world have hailed the Taliban's takeover in Afghanistan, sparking global alarm that the country could once again become a safe haven for jihadists inspired by its success....