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AFGHANISTAN: he Taliban have been rounding up scores of demonstrators and subjecting them to abuse in overcrowded jails, according to journalists who were present. The repression follows a Taliban announcement on Tuesday that…

UN: As much as 97 per cent of Afghanistan’s population is at risk of sinking below the poverty line unless a response to the country’s political and economic crises is urgently launched, according to a rapid appraisal released by the…

SWITZERLAND: The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for an extension of a global moratorium on Covid-19 booster doses, with an aim to enable every country to vaccinate at least 40 per cent of its population. “A month ago,…

CHINA: China will donate 100 million more doses of COVID-19 vaccines to developing countries by the end of 2021, President Xi Jinping said on Thursday. Speaking at the 13th BRICS summit via video link, Xi Jinping said China has…

AFGHANISTAN: The Taliban have taken over the Norwegian embassy in Kabul and taken to smashing wine bottles and destroying books at the establishment. Norwegian ambassador to Iran, Sigvald Hauge, said in a tweet, “Taliban has now…

RUSSIA: Russian Emergencies Minister Yevgeny Zinichev has died after he jumped off a cliff trying to save a cameraman who fell during training exercises in the Arctic city of Norilsk, officials and reports said Wednesday. “The…

US: Jill Biden is going back to her whiteboard. After months of teaching writing and English to community college students in boxes on a computer screen, the first lady resumes teaching in person Tuesday from a classroom at Northern…

Indian authorities are restricting major religious festivals that start this week and attract huge crowds, warning that a new COVID-19 wave had already begun in the financial capital, Mumbai. State governments across the country…

Since the early stages of the pandemic, people have claimed supplements like zinc, vitamin D and melatonin can help treat and prevent COVID-19. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends getting vaccinated or…

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday during a briefing that President Biden’s administration is “not going to allow” charter flights with unvetted passengers from Afghanistan to land on American military bases, due to…