Kabul, August 19 (AP): The Taliban celebrated Afghanistan's Independence Day on Thursday by declaring they beat the United States, but challenges to their rule ranging from running a country severely short
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Jakarta, August 19 (AP): When February's military takeover of Myanmar led to the collapse of the central health care system, independent ethnic organizations that had operated for decades on the Southeast A
Kabul, August 18 (AP): The Taliban violently broke up a protest in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least one person as they quashed a rare public show of dissent. The militant group meanwhile met w
Dhaka, August 18 (PTI): A Bangladeshi high-powered administrative committee has suggested sacking an executive magistrate here for sentencing a journalist to one-year imprisonment, staging a "midnight mobi
LONDON, AUGUST 18 (IANS): Animals known as carriers of coronaviruses were sold at local wet markets for years, finds a new study supporting the theory that the Covid-19 is the result of virus jumping from anima
Washington, August 18 (AP): The US State Department has released a joint statement signed by about two dozen nations expressing concern for the rights of Afghan women and girls and urging those in power in Afgh
Bangkok, August 18 (AP): More than 1,000 people have been killed by security forces in Myanmar since the military seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi about six months ago, a human right
London, August 18 (PTI): Any recognition of the new government in Afghanistan should happen on an "international, not unilateral" basis, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has told his Pakistan coun
Kabul, August 18 (AP): The Taliban have blown up the statue of a Shiite militia leader who fought against them during Afghanistan's civil war in the 1990s, according to photos circulating on Wednesday, sowi
MUMBAI/PUNE, AUGUST 18 (IANS): Expressing 'solidarity' with the besieged Afghanis, especially the womenfolk, as militant Talibans seized control of their country, irate Indian feminists questioned for h-
Beijing, August 18 (AP): China's ruling Communist Party has expelled a leading internet censor and accused him of a range of crimes and rule breaking from corruption to failing to properly guide public opin
Washington, August 18 (AP): The Taliban have agreed to allow safe passage from Afghanistan for civilians struggling to join a US-directed airlift from the capital, President Joe Biden's national security ad
Kabul, August 17 (AP): A Taliban spokesman has pledged to honor women's rights, but within the norms of Islamic law. Zabihullah Mujahid made the comment Tuesday at his first news conference. For years, h
Beijing, August 17 (PTI): China on Tuesday asked the US to tone down frictions, re-impose the ban on Xinjiang's Uygur militant group -- the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) -- for cooperation to stabi
Tokyo, August 17 (AP): Maki Kaji, the creator of the popular numbers puzzle Sudoku whose life's work was spreading the joy of puzzles, has died, his Japanese company said Tuesday. He was 69 and had bile duc
Washington, August 17 (AP): Built and trained at a two-decade cost of USD 83 billion, Afghan security forces collapsed so quickly and completely in some cases without a shot fired that the ultimate beneficiary
Kabul, August 17 (AP): The Taliban declared an amnesty across Afghanistan and urged women to join its government Tuesday, trying to calm nerves across a tense capital city that only the day before saw chaos at
New Delhi, August 17 (PTI): United States President Joe Biden said on Monday that he stands "squarely behind his decision" to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan as he blamed the Afghan leadersh
New Delhi, August 16 (PTI): "I had to run, else the Taliban would have killed me. Everything ends here. I could not bring my family along," Afghan intelligence officer Asif said in broken Hindi as tea
Kabul, August 16 (AP): The Taliban have seized power in Afghanistan two weeks before the US was set to complete its troop withdrawal after a costly two-decade war. The insurgents stormed across the country,
