Taiwan's foreign minister accused China on Saturday of wanting to "emulate" the Taliban, saying the island that Beijing claims as sovereign Chinese territory did not wish to be subject to communism or crimes against humanity ... Writing on Twitter in response to the U.S ...The StandardChannel. IOSAndroid. IOS Android. More>> ... arms sales ... .
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KABUL/WASHINGTON--Chaos around the Kabul airport was so bad this week that the U.S. military was forced to use three helicopters to transport 169 Americans into the complex from a building just 200 meters (656 feet) away, the Pentagon said on Friday ... troops and the Islamic militants' swift takeover of the country ... "... U.S ... 31 U.S. deadline ... 11 attacks ... .
Hurricane Grace slammed into Mexico for a second time early Saturday as a major Category Three storm, threatening to bring significant flooding and mudslides, US forecasters said ... Category Three is the third highest of five levels on the Saffir-Simpson scale ... Authorities closed most highways in Veracruz, which is crossed by numerous rivers ... ....
aliban websites that delivered the victorious insurgents’ official messages to Afghans and the world at large in five languages went offline abruptly Friday, indicating an effort to try to squelch them. It is not immediately clear, though, why the sites in the Pashto, Urdu, Arabic, English and Dari languages went offline Friday ... sanctions laws.
Berlin, (UrduPoint / PakistanPointNews - 21st Aug, 2021 ) .German ChancellorAngela Merkel on Saturday gave her would-be successor Armin Laschet a ringing endorsement, in a bid to shore up his ailing election campaign which has triggered fears their party could crash out of government ... I have no desire to go into opposition." ....
Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar arrived in Kabul on Saturday for talks on establishing a new "inclusive" government in Afghanistan, a senior official said. Other senior Taliban leaders seen in the capital in recent days include Khalil Haqqani - one of America's most wanted terrorists with a $5 million bounty on his head ... ....
A former tour manager for US R&B singer R. Kelly has testified that he bribed a government worker in 1994 to obtain a fake ID for then 15-year-old Aaliyah - so the singers could marry. DemetriusSmith said he paid $500 (£367) for an ID used by Mr Kelly, then 27, to wed Aaliyah, who was under age ... He has denied the charges ... Kelly ... Related Topics. .
This past weekend, researchers at the National Science Foundation's Summit Station observed rainfall at the peak of Greenland's rapidly melting ice sheet for the first time on record—an event driven by warming temperatures. "It's something that's hard to imagine without the influence of global climate change." ... "Like the heat wave in the [U.S ... .
Haitian Prime MinisterArielHenry pledged Friday to organize elections as soon as possible despite the devastation of last week's earthquake, in a nation still reeling from its president's assassination ... .
The DixieFire, the second-largest wildfire in California's history and the biggest one so far this year in the US, has so far burned more than 700,000 acres of land since it erupted on July 14, according to authorities ... It was about 35 per cent contained as of Friday afternoon, reports said ... Increased 10 times in size in 48 hrs ... Also Read ... .
At least two children were killed in a "suicide attack" targeting a vehicle carrying Chinese nationals in Balochistan's Gwadar district on Friday, the provincial government's spokesperson said. Three people, including the car's driver, were also injured when a suicide bomber blew himself near the vehicle ... .
BEIRUT. Lebanon has filed an urgent complaint with the UN Security Council over Israel’s violations of its airspace. It said the flyovers “violated Lebanese sovereignty, endangered the safety of civil aviation and directly threatened the lives of civilian passengers, both Lebanese and foreigners.” ... 1701 and of Lebanon’s sovereignty ... SPEEDREAD ... ....
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