SINGAPORE—Under President Xi Jinping, China’s Communist Party has moved to aggressively reassert control over the economy, going after some of the country’s largest private enterprises in a drive to dial back what it sees as the capitalist excesses of a previous era. Now, the party, which is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding this …
By Sanjeev Miglani NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s ambassador to Qatar held talks with a top Taliban leader on Tuesday, the Indian foreign ministry said, the first formal diplomatic engagement since the hardline Islamist group took over Afghanistan. The envoy, Deepak Mittal, met Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai, the head of the Taliban’s Political Office in …
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NEW DELHI: In the first ever confirmation of an official meeting between India and Taliban, the government announced Tuesday that India’s ambassador to Qatar Deepak Mittal had met Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai, the chief of Taliban’s political office in Doha. The meeting took place at the Indian embassy on Tuesday afternoon after, as the government …
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WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff reflected on the Afghanistan war’s end and delivered an emotional tribute Tuesday to the 13 service members killed by a suicide bombing last week. Gen. Mark Milley said the military’s counterterrorism efforts over the past 20 years and the evacuation of 124,000 people from Afghanistan …
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A new variant of the virus that causes COVID-19, named C.1.2, was first detected in May in South Africa. Since then, it has been found in seven other countries including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mauritius, New Zealand, Portugal and Switzerland, according to a study recently posted as a pre-print which has not been …
Imagine you’re out enjoying a nice float on a boat nowhere near the Arctic, when you spot a ginormous Arctic walrus hoisting himself out of the water and onto a boat nearby. What do you do, besides pull out your camera and take a video? That’s Wally the walrus, as he’s come to be known, …
Here’s what you need to know: A spokeswoman for Food and Drug Administration said it was “confident in the expertise and ability of our staff to continue our critical public health work.”Credit…Brendan Smialowski/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Two of the Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine regulators will leave the agency this fall, a development …
This decision about Afghanistan is not just about Afghanistan. It’s about ending an era of major military operations to remake other countries. We saw a mission of counterterrorism in Afghanistan, getting the terrorists to stop the attacks, morph into a counterinsurgency, nation building, trying to create a democratic, cohesive and united Afghanistan. Something that has …
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NCI TV channel says presenter suspended amid nationwide backlash over scene with man using mannequin to simulate rape. A TV channel in Ivory Coast has apologised after broadcasting a show in which a man presented as a former rapist explained how he assaulted his victims, using a mannequin for the demonstration. The programme, broadcast at …
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Israeli schools are slated to return to session on September 1, as new data shows that Israel had the world’s highest seven-day rolling average of new daily coronavirus cases per million people, according to figures published by the Oxford University-based Our World in Data on Tuesday. The figures showed that Israel has overtaken Montenegro and …
