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FE ONLINE DESK 2021-08-22 17:34:26
A panicked crush of people trying to enter Kabul’s international airport killed seven Afghan civilians in the crowds, the British military said Sunday, showing the danger still posed to those tr...
-- 2021-08-22 15:28:10
Authorities in the Japanese capital are considering plans to convert some of the city's Olympics and Paralympics venues into temporary medical facilities as they combat soaring COVID-19 infections tha...
REUTERS 2021-08-22 11:03:07
Afghans who fled their country this week have spoken about their despair at leaving loved ones behind and the uncertain future ahead of them after the Taliban's rapid takeover. The Taliban advance ha...
-- 2021-08-22 10:28:03
Myanmar's military government has arrested two more local journalists, the army-owned television reported on Saturday, in the latest in a sweeping crackdown on the media since a Feb. 1 coup. Sithu Au...
Reuters 2021-08-21 22:14:29
In the last few days, TV crews from Afghanistan's Al-Emarah Studio, which produces pro-Taliban multimedia content, have been out on the streets of Kabul speaking to residents with reassuring messages...
REUTERS 2021-08-21 21:49:56
Forces holding out against the Taliban in northern Afghanistan say they have taken three districts close to the Panjshir valley where remnants of government forces and other militia groups have gather...
-- 2021-08-21 21:01:47
At least 12,000 foreigners and Afghans working for embassies and international aid groups have been evacuated from Afghanistan since the Taliban captured Kabul on August 15, according to a North Atlan...
BCC 2021-08-21 20:49:04
Greece has installed a 40km (25-mile) fence and surveillance system on its border with Turkey amid concern over a surge of migrants from Afghanistan. "We cannot wait, passively, for the possible impa...
REUTERS 2021-08-21 20:21:57
Australian police arrested hundreds of anti-lockdown protesters in Melbourne and Sydney on Saturday and seven officers were hospitalised as a result of clashes, as the country saw its highest ever sin...
-- 2021-08-21 19:41:43
The United States advised Americans in Afghanistan to avoid travelling to Kabul airport on Saturday as thousands gathered trying to flee the country almost a week after the Islamist militants took con...
REUTERS 2021-08-21 18:56:24
Sri Lanka announced a 10-day lockdown starting on Friday night in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus, as surging infections and deaths overwhelm the island's health system. The Indian Oc...
-- 2021-08-21 16:40:45
Malaysia swore in a new prime minister, Ismail Sabri Yaakob, on Saturday as the Southeast Asian nation battles its worst COVID-19 surge and public anger grows over mismanagement of the pandemic. The...
REUTERS 2021-08-21 14:28:14
Australian police arrested hundreds of anti-lockdown protesters in Melbourne and Sydney on Saturday and seven officers were hospitalised as a result of clashes, as the country saw its highest ever sin...
-- 2021-08-21 13:45:43
Authorities in Shanghai have quarantined hundreds of people in an attempt to halt a fresh COVID-19 outbreak in the city after infections were detected in cargo workers at its airport, the municipal go...
REUTERS 2021-08-21 12:43:49
The Taliban will be accountable for its actions and will investigate reports of reprisals and atrocities carried out by members, an official of the Islamist militant group told Reuters on Saturday. T...
REUTERS 2021-08-21 11:56:05
When armed members of the Afghan Taliban knocked on the door of their Kabul apartment, the family of 16 inside had crammed into the bathroom, turned off the lights and mobile phones and covered the ch...
Reuters 2021-08-21 10:08:03
The Taliban aim to unveil a new governing framework for Afghanistan in the next few weeks, a spokesman for the Islamist movement said on Saturday, after the insurgents' swift takeover of the South Asi...
REUTERS 2021-08-21 09:49:37
As thousands of people thronged Kabul airport in a bid to escape the advancing Taliban on August 15, Kam Air pilot Jovica Rajhl and his colleague had to resort to subterfuge to reach their plane and t...
REUTERS 2021-08-20 21:41:20
India's drug regulator on Friday approved Zydus Cadila's three-dose COVID-19 DNA vaccine for emergency use in adults and children aged 12 years and above, bringing in the sixth vaccine authorised for...
REUTERS 2021-08-20 21:33:28
NATO foreign ministers on Friday warned the Taliban not to let Afghanistan become a breeding ground for terrorism, as it did two decades ago, prompting Western forces to intervene. "For the last 20 y...
AP 2021-08-20 20:59:59
Reports of targeted killings in areas overrun by the Taliban mounted Friday, fuelling fears that they will return Afghanistan to the repressive rule they imposed when they were last in power, even as...
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...
-- 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...
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...
-- 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...
-- 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...
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...
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...
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...
-- 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...
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