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  Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers are set to unveil their new government today as the country’s economy teeters on the verge of collapse amid food shortage warnings. The impending announcement comes more than two weeks after the Islamist militia captured ...

Photos have emerged showing Taliban supporters in Afghanistan holding a mock funeral while hoisting coffins draped with flags from the U.S. and other NATO countries. Reuters obtained some of the photos that were taken in Khost on Tuesday, less than ...

Afghan women will be allowed to study at university, but not in the same room as men, the Taliban has declared. The group’s acting higher education minister also said that male teachers will not be permitted to teach female students ...

This is the moment a decorated American soldier boarded a military cargo plane just before midnight Tuesday in Afghanistan — becoming the last US service member to leave the country. The departure of Maj. Gen. Donahue, commander of the US. ...

  Minutes after US military forces completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan, armed Taliban fighters were seen entering a hangar at the Hamid Karzai International airport in Kabul where four heavy-duty Chinook helicopters are stationed. The video captured by LA Times ...

  This is the shocking moment an Afghan TV news presenter reads out the headlines while surrounded by armed Taliban thugs. The clip was shared online by the TV studio after the militants stormed the building and demanded the news ...

Taliban fighters fired their guns into the air in celebration in the Afghan capital as the United States completed the withdrawal of it forces from Afghanistan, nearly twenty years after it invaded the country following the September 11, 2001 attacks ...

The Taliban have killed a popular Afghan folk singer just days after the group said it hoped to ban music from being played in public in Afghanistan, according to a former minister. Fawad Andarabi was “brutally killed” on Saturday, said ...

Britain said it will run its last evacuation flights from Kabul on Saturday before pulling out its troops, leaving several hundred Afghans otherwise eligible to fly to the UK behind. The UK is winding up its operation to airlift civilians ...

A Taliban leader appeared to confirm on Wednesday that music in public will once again be banned in Afghanistan following the group’s rapid takeover of the country in recent weeks. Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Taliban, gave an interview ...

Kathy Hochul has been sworn-in as first female governor of New York, promising to change the state’s political culture and work to ensure that New Yorkers believe in their government again. Hochul, a Democrat from Buffalo who turns 63 this ...

A flight carrying Afghan evacuees fleeing the Taliban takeover of their country touched down early Wednesday in Uganda where they will be given temporary refuge, government and diplomatic officials said. “The Government of the Republic of Uganda this morning received ...

  Former President Donald Trump continued criticizing his successor Joe Biden on his handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal by claiming that terrorists are being evacuated from the airport in Kabul. Meanwhile, thousands of Americans will be left behind, Trump predicted. ...

  This is the heartbreaking moment the Afghanistan flag was paraded around the Paralympics opening ceremony despite none of their athletes making it to the games. A volunteer stepped in to honour the country in ‘solidarity’ as the humanitarian crisis ...

Zambia’s newly-elected president, Hakainde Hichilema, has been sworn into office after his 6th attempt, pulling off a stunning rare victory for an African opposition leader. Hichilema was inaugurated this morning at a ceremony attended by leaders such as Tanzania President ...

Iran prisons chief has apologised after hackers leaked videos of guards torturing prisoners. The head of Iran’s prison service apologised after the leaked videos show the abuse of detainees at Tehran’s notorious Evin prison. The hackers released security footage showing ...

Airbnb is offering free housing to 20,000 Afghan refugees globally and sought more assistance from hosts who rent property through the home-sharing company.   In a tweet today, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky wrote, “The displacement and resettlement of Afghan refugees ...

Greece has finished building a 40-kilometer (25-mile) wall along its border with Turkey, amid concerns in parts of Europe that the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan could cause an influx of people seeking asylum.   Greek government ministers toured the fence ...

  Parts of Donald Trump’s much-publicized border wall with Mexico have been severely damaged in monsoon rains. Pictures showed metal gates have fallen off their hinges, leaving gaps in a stretch of the barrier in southern Arizona. Mud and detritus ...

Taliban fighters are reportedly flogging Afghan civilians in the streets for wearing ‘westernised’ clothing such as jeans as they cement their power in Afghanistan. Several young Afghans posted on social media they had been beaten and whipped by members of ...

The Nairobi County government has introduced a raft of new rules and regulations aimed at keeping the city clean and hygienic. The new regulations are contained in the Nairobi City County Public Nuisance Bill, 2021 that has been signed into ...

FIFA and the player’s union FIFPro are cooperating to evacuate male and female footballers who wish to leave Afghanistan, the global body’s secretary general Fatma Samoura told AFP on Sunday. Last week, hardline Islamist militants the Taliban took control in ...

Afghanistan’s biggest female pop star manages to escape Kabul on US Air Force plane   This footage shows Afghanistan’s biggest female pop star Aryana Sayeed escaping the country aboard a US Air Force plane. The celebrity singer, 36, who lives ...

  The oldest chimpanzee in Europe has died aged 49 years old, it has been announced. Judy the chimp was born in 1972 and died at the park in Bussolengo in the Veneto region in northern Italy last Wednesday. She ...

The northern Spanish city of Gijón on Thursday called off its century-old bullfighting festival. The city called off the popular event accusing bull breeders and the organisers of “crossing various lines.” This was after two of the bulls slain this ...