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AFGHANISTAN: A top British envoy held talks with senior Taliban officials in Kabul on Tuesday -- the first since foreign forces evacuated from Afghanistan -- as the country’s new masters seek a path out of international isolation.…

US: More oil from a massive offshore spill washed up on the southern California shore on Monday, with beaches closed and fish and birds washing up on shore as officials investigated whether a ship anchor striking a pipeline could have…

FRANCE: Dynamite fishing and pollution -- but mostly global warming -- wiped out 14 percent of the world’s coral reefs from 2009 to 2018, leaving graveyards of bleached skeletons where vibrant ecosystems once thrived, according to the…

AFGHANISTAN: Fearing a crackdown on music by the country’s new leaders, a total 101 members of Afghanistan’s top musical institute landed in Doha on Sunday evening, Ahmad Sarmast said. The group, about half of them women and…

SWITZERLAND: The World Health Organization’s (WHO) COVID-19 chief warned Tuesday “We’re not out of the woods” in the fight against the pandemic, even if many people thought it was nearly over. Maria van Kerkhove, head of the…

US: Former US President Donald Trump and real estate mogul dropped off from the Forbes 400 list of America’s richest people for the first time in 25 years, the magazine reported. A Forbes report said that Trump has the same…

US: US President Joe Biden urged Republicans to “get out of the way” and let Democrats suspend the nation’s debt limit, hoping to keep the U.S. government from bumping dangerously close to a credit default as Senate Republican leader…

Social media services Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are back up and running after an outage that lasted almost six hours, Facebook says. The company says the cause was a faulty configuration change. All three services are…

Social media services Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are back up and running after an outage that lasted almost six hours, Facebook says. It blamed an internal technical issue, which not only affected Facebook's services, but…

The Taliban killed at least 13 members of the Hazara ethnic group, including a 17-year-old girl, in the central province of Daykundi, shortly after they took power in Afghanistan, according to a new report from Amnesty International.…