Defiant Afghan Ex-VP Vows To Fight Taliban
August 17, 2021 Afghanistan’s vice president Amrullah Saleh, a former spy chief who has survived more than one assassination attempt by the Taliban, is a trenchant critic of Pakistan. Afghanistan’s…
Taliban’s Afghanistan takeover presents fresh challenge for social media companies
Aug 17, 2021 The Taliban’s rapid takeover of Afghanistan poses a new challenge for big U.S. tech companies on handling content created by a group considered to be terrorists by…
Afghanistan: Shocking video shows 3 people falling off plane mid-air in Kabul
August 17, 2021 Shortly after a video of a huge crowd jostling to get into an aircraft at Kabul airport flooded the social media on Monday, another unforeseen video splashed…
COVID-19: Tokyo Paralympics to hold without fans
Aug. 16, 2021 The 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo later this month will follow the lead of the 2020 Olympics and exclude fans from the majority of venues due to…
Over 60 countries say Afghans, others who want to leave Afghanistan must be allowed to do so
Aug 16, 2021 More than 60 countries issued a joint statement saying Afghans and international citizens who want to leave Afghanistan must be allowed to depart and added that airports…
Emergency vaccine summit needed to help Africa, says UK’s ex-PM Brown
Aug 16, 2021 U.S., British and Italian leaders must hold an emergency summit before the U.N. General Assembly to end vaccine inequality and send more shots to Africa and other…
Jailed former S.African president Zuma undergoes surgery
Aug 15, 2021 Jailed former South African president Jacob Zuma has undergone unspecified surgery and remains in hospital with more operations planned, prison authorities said on Sunday. Zuma, serving a…
Ivory Coast detects first Ebola case in 25 years
Aug 15, 2021 Ivory Coast has declared a first case of the Ebola hemorrhagic virus in 25 years, the health minister and the World Health Organization (WHO) said separately on…
Documentary Probing COVID-19 Source Puts China Lab Back Under Spotlight
Aug. 13, 2021 The idea that the coronavirus pandemic originated accidentally via Chinese laboratory workers has surfaced again, this time in a documentary aired by Danish TV on Thursday. China…
China Rejects WHO’s renewed call for fresh COVID-19 origins probe
August 13, 2021 China on Friday rejected the World Health Organization’s calls for a renewed probe into the origins of Covid-19, saying it supported “scientific” over “political” efforts to find…