A Muslim teenager believed to be about 17 years has received death threats after a video emerged of her twerking with a masked man in the middle of a busy Birmingham city centre while passers-by gathered around to watch. In the offending
More than 900 people died, and over 30 million others were affected in Pakistan as a result of massive floods caused by torrential rains, prompting the government to declare a national emergency. The death toll rose to 937 on Thursday, including 343 children and 198 women, Daily Pakistan reported, citing data from the National Disaster
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A suicide bomb attack on a mosque in the Afghanistan has killed at least 50 people, officials say. The attack, which occurred in a Shiite mosque, is the deadliest assault since US forces left in September. The blast hit the mosque during the Friday prayer service at the Gozar-e-Sayed Abad Mosque, when members of the
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(Reuters) – The Taliban government in Afghanistan appealed on Sunday for international flights to be resumed, promising full cooperation with airlines and saying that problems at Kabul airport had been resolved. The statement from the foreign affairs ministry comes as the new administration has stepped up efforts to open up the country and gain international
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Senior Taliban officials met in Kabul on Sunday with the U.N. undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs, who promised to maintain assistance for the Afghan people, Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen said. Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, head of the Taliban’s political office and other officials met Martin Griffiths as Afghanistan faces a potentially catastrophic humanitarian crisis caused by
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Taliban special forces in camouflage fired their weapons into the air Saturday, bringing an abrupt and frightening end to the latest protest march in the capital by Afghan women demanding equal rights from the new rulers. Also on Saturday, the chief of Pakistan’s powerful intelligence agency, which has an outsized influence on the Taliban, made
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The USA should withdraw all troops and contractors by the existing August 31 deadline, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said at a press conference in Kabul on Tuesday. Afghanistan citizens will not be allowed to leave the country via the ongoing U.S. evacuation process after the deadline, he told reporters. European nations have said they would
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UK prime minister Boris Johnson will chair a meeting of G7 leaders on Tuesday for urgent talks on the situation in Afghanistan. “I will convene G7 leaders on Tuesday for urgent talks on the situation in Afghanistan. It is vital that the international community works together to ensure safe evacuations, prevent a humanitarian crisis, and support
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Russian President Vladimir Putin says that other countries “must not impose their values” on Afghanistan, and that as the Taliban now control most of the country, “we need to accept that it’s a reality”. He adds that he hopes the Taliban will make good on their promises to restore order in Afghanistan. These are the
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A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas held into a third day on Sunday as mediators spoke to all sides about extending the period of calm after the worst outbreak of fighting in years. Egyptian mediators have been shuttling between Israel and the Gaza Strip, which is ruled by Hamas, to try to sustain the ceasefire
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Wednesday afternoon during a briefing with more than 70 foreign diplomats and ambassadors in Tel Aviv that Israel is not ruling out a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip. “There are only two ways you can deal with it. You can either conquer it. And that is always
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