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Australia flew 26 people out of Afghanistan in its first rescue flight, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Wednesday, after Australian troops arrived to help with the evacuation from Kabul airport that has been secured by U.S. and British colleagues. Australia said on Monday it would send 250 military personnel …

German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Kahn, the Emir of Qatar and the head of the U.N. Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on Tuesday evening, her spokesman said on Wednesday. “The chancellor spoke yesterday, in the early evening, with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Kahn as well as with …

The Joint Operations Command announced on Tuesday that dozens of wanted men, including “terrorists” were arrested in Kirkuk Governorate. The Command said in a statement, “Under the direct supervision of the Deputy Commander of Joint Operations, Lieutenant General Abdul Amir Al-Shammari, the Joint Operations Command in Kirkuk has arrested a …

The Intelligence Service of the Ministry of Interior announced on Wednesday that it had arrested three terrorists in Diyala Governorate. The Agency said in a statement that three terrorists affiliated with ISIS were arrested, on Wednesday in charge of carrying out attacks on power transmission lines and towers in Diyala. …

Scientists grew a tiny human brain in a lab through the use of induced pluripotent stem cells. The organ has developed basic eye structures that can send signals to the brain and sense light, a new report revealed. Published in the Cell Stem Cell journal under ScienceDirect, the research involved …

Russia’s single-dose Sputnik Light vaccine against COVID-19 has demonstrated 93.5 percent efficacy in Paraguay, with data taken from the South American country’s vaccination campaign, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) said on Wednesday. Developed by Moscow’s Gamaleya Institute, Sputnik Light had shown 79.4 percent efficacy when it was first authorized …

Seventeen people were injured on Wednesday in a stampede at a gate to the airport in the Afghan capital, Kabul, a NATO security official said, as Western countries stepped up the evacuation of their diplomats and others. Afghan civilians seeking to leave after the Taliban seized the capital on Sunday …

At least two US officials stationed in Germany began to seek medical treatment after developing symptoms of the mysterious health ailment known as Havana Syndrome, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed US diplomats. No further details were provided.

A statue of a prominent anti-Taliban fighter killed by the group before they took power for the first time in the 1990s has been decapitated in Bamiyan city, residents said Tuesday. “We are not sure who has blown up the statue (of Abdul Ali Mazari), but there are different groups …

With governments around the world debating whether to authorize COVID-19 vaccine booster doses, Moderna Inc. co-founder Noubar Afeyan envisions a time when the shot could become routine. “Public health officials are going to have to decide if everybody should get a booster shot, he said in an interview on “The …

Five states have intensive care units over 90% full. The United States is facing a COVID-19 surge this summer as the more contagious delta variant spreads. More than 622,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 and over 4.3 million people have died from the disease worldwide, according to real-time data compiled …

As they completed their takeover of Afghanistan, the Taliban insisted that they would not revert to the brutal medieval rule that turned the hardline Islamist group into an international pariah in the late 1990s. Dubbed the Taliban 2.0 for their skilled use of social media, the militant’s image revamp is …

Amid the chaotic scramble at Kabul’s airport to evacuate the remaining Americans and U.S. allies out of Afghanistan following the swift collapse of the Afghan government and military at the hands of the repressive Taliban forces, a blame game of sorts has broken out among President Biden and his predecessor …

US House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has called for an investigation into President Joe Biden’s policy towards Afghanistan, where the state – weakened by 20 years of occupation – collapsed before a resurgent Taliban, days after the withdrawal of most American troops from the country. McCarthy said in an …

The head of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party has called the withdrawal of Western troops from Afghanistan the “biggest NATO debacle” since the founding of the US-led military alliance. “With the Taliban sweeping to power after NATO troops withdrew, it is evident that this engagement of the international community …

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has called for a general strike in the wake of the shooting martyred of four young Palestinians by Israeli forces in a dawn raid in Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. The four young men, identified as Saleh al-Ammar, Raed Abu Seif, Amjad …

In coordination with the Peshmerga forces, Iraqi security forces raided an ISIS headquarters in mount Qara Dagh in Nineveh. According to a press release of the Security Media Cell (SMC), the intelligence of Division 14 of the Iraqi army detected a movement of a group of ISIS terrorists from and …

Abdulrahman Tayeb, a Yemeni doctor, was shocked when his hospital in southern Saudi Arabia told him his contract would not be renewed, leaving him with a difficult choice: go home to a nation at war or try to find work in another country. He is not alone. Hundreds of medical …

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday condemned the way Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko treats refugees, adding that Germany would consult closely with its European partners on a coordinated response. “President Lukashenko is using refugees, for example from Iraq, in a hybrid way to undermine security, and of course we condemn …

Israel plans to build nearly 300 settler units south of al-Quds, expanding unlawful settlement activities in the occupied city despite international condemnation. Moshe Lion, the mayor of al-Quds, announced the plan on Monday to build a new settlement neighborhood south of the occupied city. According to the plan, 296 settler …