The United States is urging the more than 150 countries planning to send their leader or a government minister to New York to speak in person at the UN General Assembly next month to consider giving a video address instead to prevent the annual high-level week from becoming “a super-spreader event.” ... ASSOCIATED PRESS. .
The Taliban have stepped up their search for people who worked for Nato forces or the previous Afghan government, a UN document has warned. It said the militants have been going door-to-door to find targets and threatening their family members ... But there are fears the Taliban have changed little since the brutal 1990s ... In other developments ... -BBC. .
German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle says the Taliban shot and killed a family member of one of their reporters in Afghanistan and severely injured a second family member. The broadcaster said in a statement on Thursday that Taliban fighters were looking for the Deutsche Welle reporter and searching homes in western Afghanistan ... He added ... Tags ... X ... .
China could soon reduce the gap between the rich and poor by imposing new taxes on property and inheritance, capping state-owned-enterprise (SOE) executives’ salaries, strengthening antitrust enforcement and promoting more charity ...Didi rides were forced to take a break as authorities demand changes to its data-collection practices. Photo. AFP ... Photo.
Tens of thousands of people on Thursday attended the funeral of the firebrand leader of Bangladesh’s top hardline Islamist organization just hours after he died in the port city of Chittagong, police said ... As the news of his death spread, thousands of Hefazat supporters gathered outside the hospital ... – AFP ....
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s longest-governing political party reclaimed the premiership it lost in a shock 2018 election defeat, after the king on Friday named its candidate, Ismail Sabri Yaakob, as the country’s new leader ...Ismail's appointment essentially restores Muhyiddin’s alliance ... “Ismail's appointment was not unexpected ... .
The report quoted a source saying it was too early for the regulators to reach a conclusion, and that additional work was needed before any recommendation was made ...Start a Conversation. .
The spokesman for the Taliban later reportedly explained that he hasn't "done interview with anyone introducing himself he is from an Israeli media", noting that some journalists might have been "masquerading" ... .
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The Pentagon’s top spokesman declined to say Thursday whether America’s military considered the Taliban to be an enemy of the US, as Washington’s forces struggle to get thousands of Americans and Afghans out of Kabul in a matter of days ... 19, 2021.STRINGER/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock ... Afghans on a US military aircraft in Kabul waiting to evacuate on Aug ... .
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Mike Spann, a Marine turned CIA officer, felt a duty to go to Afghanistan in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. In one of his last phone calls home to check on his children, he told his father he was hopeful they would gather information to locate the mastermind of the attacks, Osama bin Laden, his father recalled ...U.S ... .
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Tesla Inc Chief ExecutiveElon Musk on Thursday said the electric automaker will probably launch a “Tesla Bot” humanoid robot prototype next year, designed for dangerous, repetitive, or boring work that people don’t like to do ... He said it was important to make the machine not “super-expensive.”.