News Archives for World - 2021-08-15

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World

NATO says it is helping keep Kabul airport open for evacuations

NATO is maintaining its diplomatic presence in Kabul and helping to keep the city's airport running, the military...

Published 15 Aug, 2021 10:19pm

Europe

Turkey to work with Pakistan to stop new wave of Afghan migrants

The comments came with the Taliban poised to take power on the outskirts of Kabul

Updated 15 Aug, 2021 10:13pm

World

Blinken says US embassy staff in Kabul are moving to airport

WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday that embassy staff in Kabul are leaving the facility...

Updated 15 Aug, 2021 07:16pm

World

Political solution in Afghanistan 'more urgent than ever': NATO

We are helping to maintain operations at Kabul airport to keep Afghanistan connected with the world, the official said

Published 15 Aug, 2021 06:33pm

Middle East

Iran sets up camps along Afghanistan border as Taliban advance

DUBAI: Iran said on Sunday it has prepared accommodation in three provinces bordering Afghanistan to provide...

Updated 15 Aug, 2021 06:08pm

World

Coronavirus toll at 1000 GMT Sunday

At least 206,744,860 cases of coronavirus have been registered

Published 15 Aug, 2021 05:20pm

Europe

Germany sending A400M planes for Kabul evacuation

The planes would shuttle to a nearby hub, likely the Uzbek capital Tashkent, for onward charter flights

Published 15 Aug, 2021 05:17pm

Europe

UK PM seeks to recall parliament over Afghanistan crisis: media

LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will seek to recall parliament next week from its summer break over the...

Published 15 Aug, 2021 04:39pm

World

Former interior minister seen heading interim Afghan administration: diplomatic sources

Ali Ahmad Jalali, a US-based academic, is seen as a potentially acceptable compromise figure to oversee the transition of power

Updated 15 Aug, 2021 10:39pm

World

Russia says emergency UN meeting on Afghanistan is planned

MOSCOW: Russia is working with other countries to hold an emergency UN Security Council meeting on Afghanistan as ...

Updated 15 Aug, 2021 04:41pm

World

Taliban expose failure of US efforts to build Afghan army

Despite about $89 billion budgeted for training the Afghan army, it took the Taliban little more than a month to brush it aside

Published 15 Aug, 2021 03:58pm

Asia

With Afghan Taliban at brink of regaining power, here is a rundown of its leadership

KABUL: The Taliban movement's inner workings and leadership have always been largely shrouded in secrecy, even ...

Published 15 Aug, 2021 01:37pm

Europe

Russia reports 21,624 new COVID-19 cases, 816 deaths

On Saturday, Russia's daily COVID-19 deaths hit a new record of 819

Updated 15 Aug, 2021 01:20pm

Asia

Uzbekistan says 84 Afghan soldiers cross border fleeing Taliban

Uzbekistan provided the detained Afghan soldiers with food, temporary accommodation and medical treatment, the Uzbek foreign ministry said in a statement.

Published 15 Aug, 2021 12:36pm

South Asia

Modi says India will soon unveil $1.35 trillion infrastructure plan

The infrastructure programme, called 'Gati Shakti', will help boost productivity of industries and boost the economy, Modi says

Published 15 Aug, 2021 12:19pm

Asia

What to watch for as the Taliban encircle Kabul

The insurgent Taliban have captured almost all of Afghanistan, leaving the government in control of little more than...

Published 15 Aug, 2021 12:05pm

Asia

Malaysia PM Muhyiddin to resign on Monday

The resignation, if confirmed, would end a tumultuous 17 months in office for Muhyiddin but also bring more uncertainty to Malaysia as the country grapples with a COVID-19 surge and economic downturn

Published 15 Aug, 2021 12:02pm

World

Timeline: the Taliban's sweeping offensive in Afghanistan

KABUL: The Taliban have taken more than a quarter of Afghanistan's 34 provincial capitals in less than a week as...

Published 15 Aug, 2021 10:40am

World

Haiti searches for survivors after quake kills at least 304

The long, initial quake was felt in much of the Caribbean, emanating from the epicenter at Haiti's southwestern peninsula

Updated 15 Aug, 2021 12:18pm

Asia

Taliban enter Afghan capital, president and diplomats flee

Taliban fighters have reached Kabul "from all sides", the senior Interior Ministry official says amid reports of sporadic gunfire around the city

Updated 15 Aug, 2021 11:44pm

Asia

Taliban race closer to complete Afghan takeover

The insurgents took control of the key eastern city of Jalalabad on Sunday, just hours after the seizing the northern anti-Taliban bastion of Mazar-i-Sharif -- furthering an astonishing rout of government forces and warlord militias achieved in just 10 days

Published 15 Aug, 2021 10:23am

Middle East

At least 20 killed in Lebanon fuel tanker explosion

It added that 79 other people were injured

Updated 15 Aug, 2021 10:19am

World

France sees 5th weekend of protests against Macron Covid pass

PARIS: Protesters opposing a health pass championed by President Emmanuel Macron to defeat Covid-19 massed in ...