A Taliban delegation landed in Oslo, Norway, late Saturday for three days of meetings with Western officials. The talks, scheduled to run until Tuesday, will mark the Taliban’s first meeting with Western diplomats in Europe since the group seized power in Afghanistan in August last year. © Provided by DW The Taliban delegation is due to […]
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Kathmandu, Jan. 23 — As the debate is raging over when to hold the elections, especially after Maoist chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal suddenly proposed federal elections in April-May by delaying local polls, the Nepali Congress appears to be in a state of confusion. © Thomson Reuters FILE – Nepal’s Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba speaks as
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KYIV (Reuters) – The first shipment of the United States’ $200 million security support package for Ukraine arrived in Kyiv, the U.S. Embassy said on Saturday. The delivery followed U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to Kyiv this week amid concerns from Kyiv and its Western allies over tens of thousands of Russian troops
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The US embassy in Ukraine has requested the evacuation of all non-essential staff amid increasing fears of an imminent Russian invasion and the arrival overnight of arms deliveries promised by President Joe Biden, according to a CNN report. © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Reuters US evacuations are likely to start “as early as next week”,
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Sudan’s second most powerful leader met with Ethiopia’s defence minister Saturday on a rare visit to Addis Ababa by an official from Khartoum, that comes amid border tensions, officials said. © Ebrahim HAMID Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, widely known as Hemeti and who is number two in Sudan’s ruling council, seen here in a October 2020 photograph,
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Authorities and pet-lovers in Hong Kong are locked in a game of cat and mouse, with citizens mounting a clandestine rescue operation for hamsters condemned to be euthanised over fears they could transmit Covid-19. © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Louise Delmotte/Getty Images On Tuesday, government and health officials announced traces of the virus had been found
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An American Airlines plane bound for London from Miami has had to turn around because a passenger refused to wear a face mask, the airline has said. © Reuters American Airlines Flight AAL38 with 129 passengers on board returned to Miami where it was met by police, it said. They escorted a woman in her
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The Taliban’s first official talks with the West on European soil since seizing power in Afghanistan will help to “transform the atmosphere of war” after a two-decade insurgency against NATO forces, the group’s top spokesman told AFP Saturday. © – Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the Islamist’s first official talks with the West seizing power in
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The UN Security Council should have been & must be reformed. This is not a favour by anybody but a right of all peoples that inhabit the planet earth. We demand our right of having permanent seats, not the seasonal ones allotted to us by the present unfair system, on the Council.
Hip-hop star Cardi B will cover the funeral costs of the 17 people killed in the Bronx apartment fire this month. © Mark Lennihan/AP Cardi B said she was “extremely proud to be from the Bronx” and that when she heard about the fire and the 17 people it killed, “I knew I needed to do
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