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Taliban fighters stand guard at a checkpoint in the Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 22, 2021. (AP/Rahmat Gul)

Gunfire at Kabul airport kills 1; Taliban mass near Panjshir

The Taliban have pledged amnesty to those who worked with the U.S., NATO and the toppled Afghan govt, but many still...

23 Aug 2021 8:27 AM GMT

The government has ordered around 16 million doses of AstraZeneca Plc and Moderna Inc vaccines for this year but as yet only around 4 million of them have arrived. (Bloomberg)

Taiwan rolls out first domestic shots to bypass vaccine woes

President Tsai Ing-wen was among the first on Monday to get the vaccine developed by Taipei-based Medigen Vaccine...

23 Aug 2021 6:23 AM GMT

Tropical Storm Henri makes landfall in Rhode Island

Tropical Storm Henri makes landfall in Rhode Island

The storm was downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm, and made landfall near Westerly

22 Aug 2021 8:05 PM GMT

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned that a mass vaccine for the novel coronavirus may be over a year away. (AP Photo)

Britain to convene G7 meeting on Afghanistan

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he will convene a meeting of leaders from the Group of Seven nations on...

22 Aug 2021 7:42 PM GMT

Afghan people climb atop a plane as they wait at the Kabul airport in Kabul. (Representational Photo:AFP)

Seven people die in chaos near Kabul airport: UK

The ministry said separately that the UK had now evacuated nearly 4,000 people from Afghanistan since August 13

22 Aug 2021 7:08 PM GMT

Afghanistans most popular film personalities Sahraa Karimi. (AFP Photo)

The world was silent: Afghan filmmaker Sahraa Karimi on Taliban...

The world was silent and didn't believe that the Taliban would come to the town and take over the capital of the...

22 Aug 2021 2:10 PM GMT

Shrine of Guru Nanak Dev in Kartarpur, Pakistan. (PTI)

Pakistan to allow fully-vaccinated Sikh pilgrims to visit Kartarpur...

Pilgrimage to the Kartarpur Sahib gurdwara was suspended in March 2020 because of the COVID-19 outbreak

22 Aug 2021 9:47 AM GMT

Chinese over 60, who number 264 million, accounted for 18.7% of the countrys total population in 2020, 5.44 percentage points higher than in 2010. (AFP Photo)

China allows couples third child amid demographic crisis

China long touted its one-child policy as a success in preventing 400 million additional births in the world's most...

21 Aug 2021 12:08 PM GMT

Afghan security forces on Humvee vehicles move in a convoy at Parakh area in Bazarak, Panjshir province on August 19, 2021, after the Taliban stunning takeover of Afghanistan. (Photo: AFP)

Panjshir Valley last bastion to hold out against Taliban

Surrounded by the high peaks of the Hindu Kush north of Kabul, the Panjshir has long had a reputation as a bastion of...

20 Aug 2021 7:16 PM GMT

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern walks to the COVID-19 update press conference in Wellington, New Zealand, Friday, Aug. 20, 2021. (Mark Mitchell Pool photo via AP)

New Zealand extends Delta outbreak lockdown

PM Jacinda Ardern said the initial three-day lockdown, which would have expired overnight Friday, would be extended by...

20 Aug 2021 6:39 AM GMT

In May this year, the ruling Communist Party of China approved a relaxation of its strict two-child policy to allow all couples to have up to three children. (Representational image: AP)

China approves three-child policy with sops to encourage couples to...

China permitted all couples to have two children in 2016, scrapping the draconian decades-old one-child policy

20 Aug 2021 6:11 AM GMT

Taliban fighters patrol in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. (AP)

Taliban 'intensifying' search for Afghans who helped US: UN document

The report says the group has 'priority lists' of individuals it wants to arrest

20 Aug 2021 5:47 AM GMT