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Uganda is to take in 2,000 refugees who have fled Afghanistan after Taliban militants took power on Sunday. The deal was agreed following a request from the US government, Refugee Minister Esther Anyakun told the BBC. The first group of ...

Three people were killed and more than a dozen injured after Taliban militants opened fire during protests against the group in the Afghan city of Jalalabad on Wednesday, two witnesses told Reuters. A Taliban source said one person had been ...

A seven-month-old infant has been found separated from parents during chaos at Kabul airport. The photograph, which was posted by the Aśvaka news agency on Twitter, shows an infant who was reportedly separated from parents. The child, who according to ...

Women’s rights activist Malala Yousafzai says millions of Afghan women and girls were educated in the last 20 years – but the future they were promised is “dangerously close to slipping away”. Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by ...

The Taliban “wants the world to trust us” and is not seeking revenge in Afghanistan after regaining control of the country, the group has said in a news conference. A spokesman for the militant group said Afghanistan has now been ...

Facebook has confirmed to Sky News that the Taliban will continue to be banned from operating Afghan government accounts on its platforms. The militant group is considered a Dangerous Organisation under Facebook’s policies. “The Taliban is sanctioned as a terrorist ...

A photo posted online on Sunday shows images of women at a Kabul beauty salon being painted over as the Taliban took over the city. The Taliban stormed Kabul on Sunday after taking over most of the rest of the ...

The Taliban has renamed Afghanistan the ‘Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’ after its fighters swept into the capital, Kabul, a bustling metropolis of six million that has turned into a male-dominated city without police or traffic controls. Aljazeera reports that scores ...

  Afghanistan will no longer participate at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics after Taliban has taken over power. Before the development, Afghanistan was expected to be represented by two taekwondo players at the Paralympics. “Regrettably NPC Afghanistan will no longer participate ...

The Taliban today (Tuesday) declared a general amnesty for all government officials and urged them to return to work, two days after taking power following a lightning sweep through the country.   “A general amnesty has been declared for all… ...

  Jailed former South African President Jacob Zuma has undergone unspecified surgery and remains in hospital with more operations planned, prison authorities said.   Zuma, serving a 15-month sentence in Estcourt prison for contempt of court, was sent to a ...

A prominent Afghan filmmaker recorded her dramatic flight from Kabul as Taliban forces moved in on Sunday — and begged for help on social media, saying the militants were “coming to kill us.” “The Taliban entered Kabul, unfortunately, and we ...

The death toll from Saturday’s earthquake in Haiti soared to at least 1,297 on Sunday — as the struggling nation prepared to get hammered yet again by Mother Nature with Tropical Storm Grace. The country, still also reeling from the ...

Gunfire could be heard at Kabul International Airport on Monday morning as Afghan citizens flooded the tarmac, some clinging to the jet bridge of a plane, as they desperately tried to flee the country. The chaos followed a disastrous day ...

President Biden plans to send an additional 1,000 troops to Afghanistan following the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul Sunday, according to reports. The move to return thousands of American troops to the country brings the total number of US forces there ...

  US President, Joe Biden has blamed his predecessor Donald Trump for the collapse of the Afghanistan government to Taliban militants. The Taliban has taken control of the government of the country after overpowering Afghan security forces in different parts ...

Prince Andrew could be ordered to pay £14million damages if he loses his US sex abuse case. Last night American lawyers also warned that due to “huge legal hur­­dles” facing accuser Virginia Giuffre, a hearing may be five years away. ...

  Barack Obama celebrated his 60th birthday last weekend with a glitzy party teeming with A-listers. The huge bash saw the likes of Jay-Z, Beyoncé and George Clooney gather together to honour the former US president. Missing out on the ...

Indonesia’s Foreign Ministry formally apologized Thursday for the manhandling of a Nigerian diplomat by its immigration officials. It also announced it had launched a formal investigation of the incident. Nigeria earlier this week recalled its ambassador to Indonesia and summoned ...

China on Thursday sentenced Gu Guoming, a former senior banker at Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) to life in jail after being found guilty of bribery, state media said on Thursday. China’s top anti-graft body has put high-profile ...

  China’s so-called ‘batwoman’ has issued a stark warning that deadly Covid variants are coming. Wuhan-based virologist Shi Zhengli earned the moniker after working with bats found the subtropical areas of China for 16 years. Zhengli is one of the ...

Kim Jong-un has been seen with a mysterious head bandage like a large plaster, fuelling further concerns for his health. The North Korea leader was earlier spotted with unusual dark patches above his neck. Footage of a military conference held ...

Nine tourists have been killed in northern India after the vehicle they were travelling and was hit by falling boulders. Three others were reportedly injured in the incident, which happened in the state of Himachal Pradesh on Sunday. Dramatic footage ...

  Tunisian president Kais Saied has suspended parliament and dismissed prime minister Hichem Mechichi after a day of protests against the ruling party brought the country’s political crisis to a head. Cheering crowds quickly flooded the streets of the capital ...

A man in China has become only the 22nd human in the world to die from catching Monkey-B virus. The 53-year-old man, who worked as a vet, contracted the rare virus while dissecting two dead monkeys in early March. He ...