“They should go,” Suhail Shaheen, a member of the Taliban negotiation team, told reporters in Moscow on Friday. Troop presence beyond May 1, Shaheen warned, will qualify as a “violation of the agreement” struck with the Trump administration and will warrant a “reaction.” “We hope that this will not happen, …
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The agreement signed in Doha in late February 2020 sets May 1 as the deadline for a full withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan. The Pentagon currently has 2,500 service personnel deployed in the country, with NATO allies fielding some 7,000 more. Under the agreement, the Taliban pledged to make …
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“There will be no full withdrawal by allies by April-end,” one NATO official told Reuters. According to the source, “conditions have not been met” to justify a full-scale withdrawal, and the new administration will likely present “tweaks in policy.” “With the new US administration, there will be tweaks in the …
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While the Alphabet-owned tech behemoth suspended Parler from its main app platform right away, Apple Inc. issued a symbolic ultimatum on Friday, giving the company 24 hours to impose content-policing. “Parler has not taken adequate measures to address the proliferation of these threats to people’s safety. We have suspended Parler …
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“Despite the fact that deadlines have been missed over and over, we both think that it is responsible at this point in time to go the extra mile,” Ursula von der Leyen announced on Sunday after a phone call with Boris Johnson. Sunday was expected to be the make-or-break day …
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“Recently, I passed a bill in the Senate to stop sending stimulus checks to dead people, immediately,” Paul tweeted on Monday. The Kentucky senator revealed the bill has been “watered down” so stimulus checks will only cease being sent to dead people after three years. “This is exactly why 90 …
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The Chinese company is in talks with Walmart and Oracle on a deal, which would transfer ownership of its US operation to a new entity to comply with the Trump executive order. The US administration labeled TikTok a national security threat, claiming that it exposes personal data of American users …
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UK Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has said that if the deal between the British government and the local leaders in Greater Manchester, including Mayor Andy Burnham, isn’t inked by 12 p.m. Tuesday, then it would be up to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to decide whether to impose a tier-three lockdown …
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In a letter sent out to House Democrats on Sunday, the House Speaker did not sound optimistic on a stimulus deal being reached anytime soon. The specific disagreement at the moment appears to come down to funding for coronavirus testing and contact tracing. “The White House had assured Democrats that …
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The original deadline for the sale will not budge, Trump told reporters on Thursday. That means TikTok’s Beijing-based owner, ByteDance, has less than a week to strike a deal, facing a sweeping ban in the US should it miss the cut-off date of September 15. “We’ll see what happens. It’ll …
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