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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 ...

After taking over the capital of Afghanistan, the Taliban has now unveiled their special force which is well equipped with modern gears.   The unit is reportedly named after the Battle of Badr that is written about in the Qur’an, ...

Two Nigerian women have been arrested in Bengaluru, a city in India, for their continued stay after the expiration of their visas. African women arrested by police during a raid against African nationals who stayed in the city after their ...

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced a nationwide lockdown after the country confirmed one coronavirus case — the first locally transmitted Covid-19 case in the community since February.   Ardern told a press conference Tuesday authorities were assuming ...

The Taliban met with former Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday to discuss setting up a government.   Taliban commander Anas Haqqani, a senior leader of the Haqqani Network – a militant Taliban faction that overtook Kabul on Sunday – ...

    Romania’s foreign ministry says that a military aircraft has evacuated a single Romanian citizen from Kabul airport to Islamabad.   It said in a statement that “the particularly difficult security conditions in Kabul meant that the access of other groups ...

The Taliban are slowly spreading their reign of terror across Afghanistan, despite promising to change the way of governance from their rule 20 years ago. Reports have been emerging from Kabul and other cities about Taliban fighters beating up women ...

Abdul Ghani Baradar, the co-founder of the Taliban, and now the undisputed victor of the Afghanistan war, is back in the country after 20 years.   In 2001, he was ousted from Afghanistan and the Taliban leadership on Tuesday claimed ...

The Biden administration on Sunday froze Afghan government reserves held in U.S. bank accounts, blocking the Taliban from accessing billions of dollars held in U.S. institutions, according to two people familiar with the matter. The decision was made by Treasury ...