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(AFP): Qatar has refused to take responsibility for the Kabul international airport Tuesday, without an agreement between all parties that also involves the Taliban. Doha has become a key broker in Afghanistan following last month´s…
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With no masks in sight, buzzing offices and concerts drawing tens of thousands, Denmark on Friday ditches vaccine passports in nightclubs, ending its last Covid curb. The vaccine passports were introduced in March 2021 when Copenhagen…
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Americans mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11 on Saturday with troops finally gone from Afghanistan, but national discord -- and for President Joe Biden, political peril -- are overshadowing any sense of closure. A whole generation has grown…
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US President Joe Biden talked with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping for the first time in seven months Thursday, urging they ensure that "competition" between the two powers does not become "conflict," the White House said. During the…
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Some 200 passengers, including US citizens, left Kabul airport on Thursday, on the first flight carrying foreigners out of the Afghan capital since a US-led evacuation ended on August 30. The flight to Doha comes as the Taliban continue…
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As a nurse at one of Kabul's main hospitals, Latifa Alizada was the breadwinner for her family, providing for her three young boys and unemployed husband. Now -- since the Taliban rolled into Afghanistan's capital -- she too is jobless,…
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Beijing said Wednesday it welcomed the end of "three weeks of anarchy" in Afghanistan with the establishment of a new interim government in Kabul, calling on the Taliban to restore order in the country. The Islamists seized control of…
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived Wednesday in Germany for talks with nations shaken by the Afghanistan withdrawal as the Taliban announced a hardline new government. The top US diplomat flew out of Qatar, the largest transit…
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More people are believed to have died from illnesses related to 9/11 than were killed on the actual day of the Al-Qaeda attacks on New York and Washington, according to a report published on Tuesday. The September 11 Victim Compensation…
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Taliban fighters advanced deep into the last holdout province of Panjshir Sunday, as the top US general warned Afghanistan faces a wider civil war that would offer fertile ground for a resurgence of terrorism. Following their…
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New Zealand police on Friday shot dead an Islamic State-inspired attacker after he injured six people in a supermarket knife rampage, despite round-the-clock surveillance by undercover officers. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said she was…
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The Taliban were expected to form a government as early as Friday with the new regime under intense international scrutiny over its vow to rule Afghanistan with greater tolerance, especially on women's rights. The Taliban have pledged a…
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In the days since taking power in Afghanistan, a wide range of Taliban figures have entered Kabul -- hardened commandos, armed madrassa students and greying leaders back from years of exile. There has been one major exception -- the…
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AFP: Russia on Tuesday reacted to the Taliban takeover of Kabul, saying that they preferred the "positive signal" sent out by the insurgents since capturing the Afghan capital, Kabul. "I consider it a positive signal that the Taliban in…
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AFP: US President Joe Biden will soon speak on Afghanistan's takeover by the Afghan Taliban, an aide of the US president confirmed Monday. President Joe Biden will deliver comments "soon" about Afghanistan, a key aide said Monday as the…
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