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Volleyball Nations League: Iran 3-1 Italy To the Volleyball Nations League, where Iran have powered past the hosts, Italy, 3 sets to 1.Coming on the back of 2 consecutive victories over the Netherlands and Canada, Team Melli showed great confidence to take the first 2 sets 26-24 and 29-27. Vladimir Aleknos men then seemed to be losing grip,... |
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Zabuls Shinkai district falls to the Taliban Zabuls Shinkai district police headquarters, district building and bazaar have been seized by the Taliban, sources told Ariana News Saturday morning.
According to sources, Afghan National Army soldiers based in the district withdrew to another ANA base on the outskirts of Shinkai.
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Two district police chiefs, 8 soldiers killed in Baghlan, Ghazni clashes At least ten security force members, including police chiefs from two Baghlan provincial districts, were killed in Taliban attacks on Friday night in Julga district, security sources confirmed.
According to them, the Taliban launched an attack on Julga district, just after midnight, from a number... |
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Chinas Wang says Afghans can control own destiny post withdrawal Chinas Foreign Minister Wang Yi said this week that while the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan will bring some uncertainties, the move will give the Afghan people the chance to control their own future.
Following a video dialogue on Thursday with his Afghan and Pakistani counterparts,... |
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US spying all over world unacceptable, intolerable, China foreign ministry says Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin
China says it is definitely "unacceptable and intolerable" that the US is spying on the leaders of its European allies and others around the world, stressing that Washington should be brought to justice.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin... |
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Abdullah: Political Division Will Cause Collapse Abdullah Abdullah, the head of the High Council of National Reconciliation (HCNR), on Thursday said the system will collapse if Afghan leaders do not forge a consensus on the issues of national importance.
Speaking at the 10th assassination anniversary of Gen. Daud Daud, the former commander of 303... |
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Another four killed in second explosion in one day in Kabul At least four civilians were killed in an explosion in PD6 in Kabul city on Thursday evening, police said.
According to police, an IED targeted a passenger vehicle in the Pul-e-Sokhta area of PD6 in the west of the city.
At least five others were wounded in the blast, police added.
So far, no group... |
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NASAs Venus missions to probe divergent fate of Earths hothouse sister planet NASA announced plans on Wednesday to launch a pair of missions to Venus between 2028 and 2030 - its first in decades - to study the atmosphere and geologic features of Earths so-called sister planet and better understand why the two emerged so differently.
The U.S. space agency said it was awarding... |
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COVID-19: 1,509 New Cases, 34 Deaths Reported in Afghanistan The Ministry of Public Health on Thursday reported 1,509 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 4,392 samples tested in the last 24 hours.
The ministry also reported 34 deaths and 107 recoveries from COVID-19 in the same period.
Waheed Majroh, the acting minister of public health, speaking at a press... |
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Taliban Still Closely Tied to Al Qaeda: UN Report A report by the UN Monitoring Team released on Wednesday said that "the Taliban and Al-Qaeda remain closely aligned and show no indication of breaking ties."
18 Member States report "no material changes to this relationship, which has grown deeper as a consequence of personal bonds of marriage and... |
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Pentagon reports military leaders planning post-withdrawal financial support Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby said on Wednesday that the US is currently focusing on the post-withdrawal support process, which he says will be largely financial.
In a press briefing Wednesday, Kirby said: "I want to stress ... that, right now, the focus of the post-withdrawal support to... |
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Four killed in magnetic IED blast in Kabul At least eight people were killed or wounded in a blast on Thursday in Kabul city, police said.
Kabul police said the incident occurred in PD6 in Charqala area when a private car was targeted in a magnetic IED explosion.
Four people were killed and more than four were wounded in the blast, police... |
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US military says it mistakenly killed 20 Afghan civilians last year The US military says air and ground operations it conducted in Afghanistan last year unintentionally killed 20 civilians.
According to an annual report on civilian casualties submitted to Congress, the US Department of Defense (DoD) "assesses that there were approximately 23 civilians killed and approximately... |
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Six Pakistani al-Qaeda militants killed in Helmand airstrike Six Pakistani members of al-Qaeda on the Indian Subcontinent, along with eight Taliban members were killed in airstrikes on hideouts on Wednesday in Helmand Province.
According to the Ministry of Defense, a local al-Qaeda leader, Abbas, was among those killed in the airstrikes on Nawa district of... |
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Myanmar teachers, students defy junta order to reopen schools Protesters in school graduation gear take part in a demonstration against the military coup in Yangon. ( File Photo by AFP)
Only a quarter of Myanmars more than 12 million students have enrolled for the new school year amid a protest boycott against military rule and following a series of bombings,... |
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Discovery of childrens remains at school site reopens wounds for indigenous survivors A First Nations family views the defaced Ryerson University statue of Egerton Ryerson, considered an architect of Canadas residential indigenous school system, following the discovery of the remains of 215 children on the site of British Columbias former Kamloops Indian Residential School, in Toronto,... |
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US worker shortage is real and getting worse by the day: Chamber of Commerce The US labor short is a "national economic emergency" that is getting worse by the day, the Chamber of Commerce said.
The US labor shortage is holding back the countrys economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the US Chamber of Commerce.
The labor shortage is hitting industries... |
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Lapid announces forming unprecedented coalition to boot Netanyahu Yair Lapid, the Israeli Yesh Atid partys head
Israeli opposition politician Yair Lapid announces forming an unprecedented coalition gathering a whole host of allies aimed at dealing death to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus political longevity.
The Yesh Atid partys head informed outgoing President... |
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China, Pakistan, Afghanistan foreign ministers to meet China will chair a meeting with the Foreign Ministers of Afghanistan and Pakistan on Thursday as Beijing looks to step up its engagement with both Kabul and Islamabad amid the withdrawal of U.S. forces.
Chinas Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday the fourth meeting between the three countries foreign... |
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Three civilians killed in NDS convoy blast in Nangarhar At least three civilians were killed and 12 others were wounded Wednesday morning when a 02 NDS unit convoy was targeted in Nangarhar province, local officials confirmed.
Provincial governor Ziaulhaq Amarikhail said that the incident occurred in PD4 in Jalalabad city.
The Nangarhar governor said... |
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Taliban captures check posts in Nangarhar in series of attacks Taliban insurgents launched a series of attacks on Afghan security posts in Pachiragam, Haska Mina and Surkhrod districts in eastern Nangarhar province on Tuesday night, officials said Wednesday.
Hijratullah, Pachiragam district chief, said the Taliban had attacked check posts belonging to Afghan... |
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UN underscores urgent need to protect civilians The UN team in Afghanistan said that heavy civilian casualties recently documented by the UN mission underscores the need for all parties to do much more to protect civilians from harm.
In a briefing by Stephane Dujarric, the spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General on Wednesday, the United Nations... |
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RSF asks ICC to probe killings of Afghan journalists Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has formally asked the International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to investigate murders of journalists and media workers in Afghanistan since March 2020.
In this time, 11 media workers, including journalists, have been killed in targeted attacks.
RSF... |
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Ahead of Biden meeting, Erdogan warns US could lose reliable partner by cornering Turkey This is a file photo of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (By Reuters)
Almost a fortnight prior to his meeting with US President Joe Biden, Turkeys Recep Tayyip Erdogan has recounted some of the tensions in relations with the US administration and warned Washington that it could "lose a precious... |
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Israel claims destroying Syrian army post in occupied Golan Heights An Israeli military armored personnel carrier (APC) maneuvers in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights near the Syrian frontier. (Photo by Reuters)
The Israeli military says it has blown up a Syrian army post in the Golan Heights, using ground forces to detonate the site instead of targeting it from... |
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Palestine summons European envoys over no votes to UNs motion This picture taken on May 27, 2021 shows the damage caused by Israeli bombings around tombs in the old Shujaiya cemetery in Gaza City. (Photo by AFP)
Palestine has summoned four European ambassadors over their countries "no" votes to a resolution at the United Nations to probe Israeli abuses, including... |
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NATO Defense Ministers agree to keep civilian footprint in country NATO Defence Ministers on Tuesday agreed that continued support for the Afghan forces, the government and the people is the best way for them to contribute towards the peace process and that they will keep a civilian diplomatic presence in Kabul.
In a virtual meeting Tuesday, the ministers also agreed... |
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US completes as much as 44% of retrograde process U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said late Tuesday the Department of Defense has retrograded the equivalent of approximately 300 C-17 loads of material out of Afghanistan and has turned over nearly 13,000 pieces of equipment to the Defense Logistics Agency for disposal.
In a statement issued by CENTCOM,... |
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Turkey agrees to run Kabul airport in NATO deal: UAE report The Turkish government has agreed to take over responsibility for Kabuls international airport in a $130 million deal with NATO, an Afghan government official told the UAEs The National newspaper.
This comes after weeks of uncertainty over the security of the Hamid Karzai International Airport in... |
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At least 10 killed, 12 wounded in bomb attacks in Kabul Three bomb explosions have rocked the Afghan capital city of Kabul, claiming the lives of at least 10 people and plunging the city into darkness, according to Afghan government officials.
Hamid Roshan, a spokesman for Afghanistans Interior Ministry, said two bombs exploded in separate locations in... |
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