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Ghani Slams Taliban, Pakistan for Recent Bombing in Kabul President Ashraf Ghani says those who brought suicide attacks to Afghanistan are responsible for the recent bombing in Kabul.
Ghani visited Kabul Emergency hospital last night to meet with the victims of Tuesdays attack in Uranus hall.
During his speech at the hospital, Ghani said: "Taliban cannot... |
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NATO commander discussed Ghazni security with the provincial officials The commander of the NATO-led Resolute Support Mission Gen. Scott Miller met with the governor of southeastern Ghazni province and security officials of the province to hold talks regarding the security of the province.
According to the provincial government office, Governor Wahidullah Kalimzai shared... |
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85,000 Yemeni Kids May Have Starved as Saudi Aggression: NGO Some 85,000 children under the age of five may have starved to death in Yemen since the Saudi regime and a coalition of its allies launched a brutal aggression on the impoverished nation since March 2015, UK-based charity reported.
Using data compiled by the UN, Save the Children calculated in a Tuesday... |
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Saudi Activists Tortured, Sexually Harassed at Regimes Prisons: Report Saudi Arabian political activists and dissident campaigners, including a number of women, has faced sexual harassment, torture and other forms of ill-treatment at the West-backed regimes prison, Amnesty International said on Tuesday.
The London-based rights group said in a report that according to... |
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Erdogan accuses Soros of aiding Turkish philanthropist Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday accused George Soros of aiding a jailed Turkish philanthropist facing hugely controversial charges of seeking to overthrow the government, describing the Hungary-born American billionaire as a "famous Hungarian Jew."
Erdogan suggested Soros had... |
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Chancellor Merkel defends UN migration pact, censures nationalism in purest form Germanys Chancellor Angela Merkel has made a speech in defense of a UN agreement on migration and accused its opponents of “nationalism,” while apparently criticizing US President Donald Trump over his immigration policies.
In her speech to the Bundestag lower house of parliament... |
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Russia: West after manipulating OPCW to own benefit Western attempts to manipulate the Chemical Weapons Convention have drawn Russias firm response, with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov saying the West tries to promote its own policies and turn the convention into its "obedient tool."
"They are trying to turn a unique tool of international... |
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Trump put personal ties, commercial interests above Khashoggi life: WaPost CEO Washington Post publisher and CEO Fred Ryan has condemned President Donald Trump’s statement that the United States will remain a "steadfast partner" of Saudi Arabia despite the brutal killing of Virginia-based Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
In a much-awaited statement on Tuesday, Trump... |
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Muhaqiq Agrees with Interim Govt on Condition Muhammad Muhaqiq Deputy Chief Executive of Afghanistan says he will support the establishment of an interim government if it is only for the purpose of facilitating peace talks and holding the upcoming presidential election.
"If the purpose of an interim government is to be a successor of the current... |
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43 Killed, 83 Wounded in Kabul Wedding Hall Explosion The explosion happened at about 6.15pm local time during a large gathering of people who were marking Prophet Mohammad’s birthday, officials said.
At least 43 people have been killed and 83 others wounded in an explosion inside a very large wedding hall on the airport road in Kabul... |
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Teetering on Edge, Bin Salman Waits Trump Statement Every day, new details of the case of the killing of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi who was killed upon his entry to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2 come to the surface amid massive international media coverage. The new information about his murder work like pieces of a puzzle putting... |
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Ivanka Trump caught using personal email for government work US President Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, has been caught using her personal email to handle government affairs, a controversial revelation that is already getting compared to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email server.
The Washington Post... |
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Police officer stabbed in Belgian capital, assailant subdued A policeman has been wounded in a stabbing attack in front of the main police station in the Belgian capital of Brussels.
The attacker stabbed the officer outside the police station at 5:30 am (0430 GMT) on Tuesday, police spokeswoman Ilse van de Keere said.
"A police officer was stabbed and slightly... |
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Upcoming Khashoggi murder recordings will shake world: Report A Turkish daily says the audio recordings related to the gruesome murder of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi – which is widely believed to have been ordered by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman – are expected to be released this week, and that the revelations will “shake... |
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Putin urges Russian military to take concrete steps against US withdrawal from INF Treaty Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday Moscow doesn’t need to join another arms race, but it would not leave Washington’s decision to unilaterally withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty unanswered.
Russia is ready to continue dialog with the... |
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Saudi king throws his weight behind his son, Judiciary on Khashoggi murder Saudi King Salman has thrown his weight behind his son, Crown Prince Mohammed, and lavished praise on the Saudi Judiciary in his first public remarks since the killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who is said to have been murdered at bin Salman’s order.
"The kingdom was founded... |
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Pakistan PM Responds to Trumps Comment The US President Trump and Pakistans Prime Minister Imran Khan trolled each other on Twitter on Monday.
Following a Fox News interview over the weekend in which Trump accused Pakistan of hiding Osama bin Laden and berated it for not doing a "damn thing" for the US, Imran Khan pushed back on Monday... |
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EU Says Geneva Conference is An Important Opportunity The European Council said in a statement on Monday that the Geneva ministerial conference on Afghanistan on November27 and 28 November will be an important opportunity to take stock of progress on mutually agreed reforms made since the Brussels Conference in 2016 and set a forward-looking agenda for... |
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President Ghani met with the delegation of US House of Representatives President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on Monday met with a delegation of the U.S. House of Representatives in Presidential Palace to discuss key issues of bilateral interest.
The Office of the President, ARG Palace, in a statement said the meeting took place on Monday evening during which the two sides held... |
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Casualties Feared As Explosion Rocks Kabul Early reports indicate that a suicide bomber detonated his explosives near Pashtunistan Square in Kabul city center on Monday, close to where hundreds of protesters had gathered.
The explosion took place close to the busy circle, which is in the same area as the ministries of finance and justice and... |
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Protesters gather near Presidential Palace in Kabul over recent wave of violence Hundreds of protesters marched through the night from the western parts of Kabul to the city center, close to the Presidential Palace, in protest against what they say is neglect on the part of government to secure large parts of Ghazni and Uruzgan provinces.
The protesters accuse government of not... |
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Death toll from attack on Islamic Movement in Nigeria supporters rises to 42 The Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) says 42 of its members have been killed by Nigerian security forces during protests in the capital Abuja over the past two days.
IMN supporters have taken to the streets over the past two days to demand the government release their imprisoned leader Sheikh... |
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Khashoggi killed by strangulation, cut into pieces after murder: Turkish prosecutor Turkish judicial officials say prominent Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who went missing after visiting the kingdom’s consulate in Turkey’s largest city of Istanbul earlier this month, was "strangled" as soon as he entered the diplomatic mission and his body was... |
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UN calls for resumption of Yemen peace talks within a month The United Nations says it aims to resume Yemen peace talks "within a month", a day after a similar call made by the United States that was condemned by the Houthi Ansarullah movement.
The United Nations envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths welcomed calls for an immediate re-launch of negotiations... |
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Military Helicopter Crashes In Farah Province Officials have confirmed that a military helicopter crashed this morning in Anar Dara district of Farah province.
According to 207 Zafar Military Corps spokesman Najibullah Najibi, two choppers had been flying together when the one crashed.
Najibi said at least 20 people were on board the chopper... |
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Two Muslim women expected to be elected to Congress in midterms Two Muslim women are expected to be elected to Congress in the US midterm election next week, marking a historic first amid increasing anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant rhetoric.
Ilhan Omar, a Somali refugee, is likely to win a seat in the US House of Representatives in a densely-Democratic district... |
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MoI Revises Pul-e-Charkhi Prison Blast Death Toll The ministry of interior said on Wednesday that six people had been killed and eight wounded in the explosion near Pul-e-Charkhi prison in Kabul.
This was down from the seven deaths reported earlier by Kabul police chiefs spokesman Basir Mujahid who said at least 14 others were wounded.
MoI spokesman... |
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Germanys CDU sees hard losses in state election Secretary General of the Christian Democratic Union Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said that the Hesse state election results are ’painful’, speaking from the CDU headquarters in Berlin on Sunday.
"It is painful for the CDU that we’ve lost so many votes," the CDU General Secretary said,... |
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Four Civilians, Two Policemen Wounded in Kabul Suicide Bombing At least four civilians and two policemen wounded in a suicide bombing near IEC main office in Kabul, officials said.
The blast occurred at around 8 am in police district 9 of Kabul City.
Najib Danish, Spokesman of the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said that a suicide bomber attempted to target an IEC... |
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Afghan, Pakistani foreign ministers discuss deadly Kandahar attack The Afghan foreign minister Salahuddin Rabbani discussed the deadly Kandahar attack with his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi during a telephone conversation today.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement said the foreign minister of Pakistan Shah Mehmood Qureshi called the Afghan... |
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