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What is the Islamic State threat in Afghanistan?

President Biden said there is 'an acute and growing risk' of an attack at airport by the group's regional chapter - Islamic State-Khorasan

26 Aug 2021 10:41 AM

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 fear revenge attacks

23 Aug 2021 1:57 PM

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 Biologics Corporation

23 Aug 2021 11:53 AM

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 Tuesday

23 Aug 2021 1:12 AM

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

23 Aug 2021 12:38 AM

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

The world was silent and didn't believe that the Taliban would come to the town and take over the capital of the country, Sahraa Karimi said

22 Aug 2021 7:40 PM

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 populous country

21 Aug 2021 5:38 PM

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 resistance

21 Aug 2021 12:46 AM

China approves three-child policy with sops to encourage couples to have more kids

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

20 Aug 2021 11:41 AM

UAE says Afghan President Ashraf Ghani is in the country

Ghani fled Afghanistan just as the Taliban approached Kabul

18 Aug 2021 11:11 PM

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Afghan women fear return to 'dark days' amid Taliban sweep

In just a few minutes, everything changed for the 26-year-old resident of Herat, Afghanistan’s third-largest city

16 Aug 2021 3:42 AM

Afghan president Ghani flees country as Taliban enter Kabul

Taliban sources told that the insurgents had taken control of the presidential palace and that a meeting on security in Kabul was underway

15 Aug 2021 11:57 PM

Taliban seize province near capital, attack northern city

The Taliban captured all of Logar province, detained its provincial officials and reached a district in the neighboring Kabul province

14 Aug 2021 1:28 PM

Taliban close in on Kabul as US scrambles to evacuate

With the country's second- and third-largest cities having fallen into Taliban hands, Kabul has effectively become the besieged

14 Aug 2021 11:19 AM

US, UK to launch evacuation flights as Taliban advance across Afghanistan

Washington and London announced plans late on Thursday to quickly pull out their embassy staff and other citizens from the capital

13 Aug 2021 11:29 AM

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China virus cases rise as Delta variant challenges Beijing

Tuesday's numbers are the highest since January, when the country logged 144 new cases and 126 domestic infections

10 Aug 2021 1:33 PM

Nagasaki marks 76th anniversary of atomic bombing

The Aug. 9, 1945, bombing came three days after the United States made the world's first atomic attack on Hiroshima, killing 140,000

09 Aug 2021 12:17 PM

China's Wuhan to test 'all residents' as COVID returns

Major cities including the capital Beijing have now tested millions of residents while cordoning off residential compounds

03 Aug 2021 1:32 PM

Millions under virus lockdown as China battles Delta outbreak

China on Monday reported 55 new locally transmitted coronavirus cases

02 Aug 2021 12:45 PM

China, India miss UN deadline to update emissions targets

The world’s two most populous countries are among dozens that failed to provide an update on their targets

01 Aug 2021 1:31 PM

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