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Khalili Says Platform Established For National Peace Senior officials from government, former jihadi leaders and High Peace Council (HPC) officials attended a conference in Kabul on Thursday to mark the International Day of Peace and said peace in Afghanistan was critical.
According to HPC chairman Mohammad Karim Khalili, peace was a national requirement... |
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Trumps anti-Iran speech proves US failed policies in Middle East: IRGC commander The commander of Irans Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says US President Donald Trumps speech at the United Nations shows Washington is enraged by its back-to-back crushing defeats in the Middle East region.
"With the successive crushing defeats the Americans have suffered in the region especially... |
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Trump administration reluctant to end racism, hate crimes: Journalist The rising racism and hate crimes in the United States and President Donald Trumps reluctance to condemn white supremacy underscore that the American people need to mobilize to eliminate bigotry and discrimination, an African American journalist in Detroit says.
"The United States was founded on racism... |
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California suing Trump administration over border wall The US state of California has filed a lawsuit that will challenge President Donald Trumps proposal to build a wall along the US-Mexico border, a project the states attorney general has called "medieval."
The lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges that the Trump administration has failed to comply with federal... |
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Russia rebukes Trump, says to defend Iran nuclear deal Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Moscow is “extremely concerned” by US President Donald Trump’s stance on the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and the six world powers, asserting that Russia would defend the landmark agreement as it has “genuinely strengthened both... |
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French leader speaks in defense of Iran deal in first UN speech French President Emmanuel Macron has taken the podium at the UN to speak in defense of the 2015 multilateral nuclear deal with Iran, warning that a failure to honor the accord will be “irresponsible.”
“This is a good agreement, an agreement that’s essential to peace,” Macron... |
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Rouhani censures Trumps anti-Iran rhetoric Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has lashed out at US President Donald Trump for his "ignorant and spiteful" comments against the Iranian nation.
Delivering a speech at the 72nd UN General Assembly session in New York on Wednesday, President Rouhani said the "ignorant, ugly, spiteful literature of the... |
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CIA honors officer who had saved Hamid Karzais life The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has honored one of its veteran officers who had once saved the life of the former Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
The officer who has now retired after serving for almost thirty years has been identified as Greg Vogle.
According to the reports, Vogle... |
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Taliban and their backers cannot win militarily, Ghani says The Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has said the Taliban and their backers cannot win militarily as he called on the group to engage in intra-Afghan talks to end the violence.
Speaking during the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, President Ghani welcomed the announcement of the new... |
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A lie about the IRGCs anti-Semitic tendencies, an allegation of the IRGCs support for terrorism History has clearly shown that Washington is afraid of IRGC. The force that presents figures such as the martyr Hojaji and a picture of him, while willingly and resolutely prepared for martyrdom, affects the world.
Dr.Sajad.Abadi / Visiting Professor at the University of Saint Joseph of... |
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China rejects threats as solution for North Korea nuclear crisis China has rejected any form of threatening action as a solution for North Koreas nuclear crisis, after US Defense Secretary James Mattis pointed to the likelihood of military options against Pyongyang.
"Developments in the [Korean] peninsula nuclear issue up to this point prove that,... |
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UN chief urges Myanmar to halt military campaign against Rohingya UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called on Myanmar to put an end to its military campaign against Rohingya Muslims just hours after the country’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, failed to allay international concerns over the ongoing ethnic cleansing in Myanmar.
Addressing... |
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JCPOA belongs to whole world, not just US: EU foreign policy chief European Unions foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, says the nuclear agreement signed between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries works fine and belongs to the entire world, not just the United States.
"I have said many times that the agreement is working fine, [and] the IAEA (International... |
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US current account deficit reaches $123 billion The deficit in the broadest measure of US trade rose to the highest level in more than eight years this spring, reflecting in part a drop in fines and penalties paid by foreign companies.
The deficit in the current account increased to $123.1 billion, up 8.5 percent from an imbalance of $113.5 billion... |
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Hamas to Welcome Palestinian Unity Govt. in Gaza: Haniyah Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, says it is ready to receive the Palestinian Unity Government in Gaza days after reaching a pact with Ramallah based Fatah party.
In a press conference held on Tuesday immediately after returning to the Gaza Strip from Cairo, Hamas Political Bureau... |
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Trump Defends Afghan War Strategy, Vows Action Against Taliban US President Donald Trump on Tuesday addressed the UN General Assembly in New York where he touched on a wide range of issues with special focus on North Korea and the threats emerging from militant groups across the world including the Taliban and al-Qaeda. He warned that the United States will be... |
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Islamic Banking System Could Boost Countrys Economy Officials from the Afghan Banking Union on Tuesday said the Islamic banking system was one of the best strategies to leverage the economy and attract investment in the country.
They said the Islamic banking system is a trusted system and it ensures safe banking .
According to the union, currently up... |
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Hekmatyar Calls For End To War and Transparent Elections Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the leader of Hizb-e-Islami, on Tuesday told a gathering in western Herat province that people must not support insurgent groups.
Hekmatyar was in Herat on Tuesday to drum up political support for Hizb-e-Islami.
He said groups that want war in the country have no place among the... |
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2 Afghan asylum seekers arrested on charges of raping a girl in Germany Two Afghan asylum seekers have been detained in German on charges of raping a girl, days after Germany deported a group of at least eight people convicted in various crimes, including rape incidents.
According to the local media reports, citing the government sources, the two men were arrested on charges... |
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First batch of Black Hawks for Afghan Air Force arrive in Kandahar The first batch of the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters for the Afghan Air Force arrived in southern Kandahar province on Monday.
The NATO-led Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan informed regarding the arrival of the first Black Hawks late on Monday.
In a short statement posted online, the alliance... |
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Iran lures Afghan traders into investing in Chabahar port Iranian officials have said Afghan traders can get a 25 percent discount on investment at Chabahar port besides availing land and other facilities.
Afghan traders could export their fruits to other countries from the seaport in southeastern Iran, according to officials of southern Kandahar province... |
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Noble Peace Prize: Discriminatory, Serving Wests Interests The Noble Peace Prize was first awarded in 1901 to Jean Henry Dunant, the Swiss social activist who founded the Red Cross, and Frederick Passy, the French economist who was one of the founders of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the chief organizer of the first International Peace Congress. The international... |
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Russias Putin attends Zapad-2017 joint drills with Belarus Russian President Vladimir Putin has attended joint drills, demonstrating Moscow’s military might, with Belarus near Russia’s western border with Estonia.
Putin observed tank attacks, airborne assaults and air raids as part of the Zapad-2017 (West-2017) military drills on Monday at... |
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US committed to no international obligation: Irans Rouhani Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the United States has failed to remain committed to any of its international obligations, stressing that Washington is not a reliable country.
"Today, you can see that the US is trampling on its agreements with Cuba and other countries one after the other," Rouhani... |
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Trump says bureaucracy and mismanagement holding UN back US President Donald Trump has warned that "bureaucracy" and "mismanagement" are holding the United Nations back, a pointed message for an international organization he once criticized as weak and incompetent.
"In recent years the United Nations has not reached its full potential because of bureaucracy... |
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UK to lose 10,000 finance jobs after Brexit: Survey About 10,000 finance jobs will be shifted out of the UK or created overseas in the next few years if Britain is denied access to the European Unions single market, according to a survey of international firms.
Frankfurt, Germany, was by far the most popular destination for the new roles, with Paris,... |
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US sanctions to speed up nuclear program development: N Korea North Korea warns that the more sanctions are imposed by the US and its allies against the peninsular country, the faster it will move to complete its nuclear weapons program, as tensions between Washington and Pyongyang escalate at an unprecedented rate.
The latest embargos imposed... |
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Over 80 arrested during third night of protests in St. Louis More than 1,000 protesters have marched through the streets in St. Louis, Missouri, during the third night of demonstrations over the acquittal of a white policeman who had fatally shot a black man in 2011.
Over 80 people were arrested on Sunday night after the protests turned violent following... |
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Abbasi admits German embassy bombers in Kabul travelled from Pakistan The Pakistani Prime Minister in an unprecedented statement has confessed that the bombers who blew up a tanker near the German embassy in Kabul late in May, had likely travelled from Pakistan.
PM Abbasi made the remarks during an interview with a UK-based newspaper, The Financial Times.
He said at... |
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Global Peace Festival with 200,000 People from 30 Countries was held in Korea A Culture of Peace was envisioned at a Peace Festival at the 3rd Annual Commemoration of the WARP Summit
On September 18, a global peace festival celebrating the 3rd Annual Commemoration of the Alliance of Religions’ Peace (WARP) Summit was held. Along with the main venue held at Hwaseong Sports... |
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