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The last three US military transport departed the Hamid Karzai Airport late on Monday, just ahead of the August 31 deadline set for full withdrawal. For years, Washington and media outlets described the conflict in Afghanistan as a stalemate that had provided enough security to kindle social progress, security and …

Speaking as part of a campaign event ahead of next month’s parliamentary elections, Sergey Lavrov warned that regional instability is far from a cause for celebration. “People have written that we are gloating over events in Afghanistan,” the top diplomat said. “But there has been no such feeling.” “We are …

Durov is a long-time critic of both companies, as well as some of their competitors, such as Facebook’s WhatsApp. He believes they are responsible for the erosion of privacy. “20 years ago, we had decentralized Internet and a relatively unrestricted banking system,” he wrote on his Telegram channel. “Today, Apple …

The meeting, however, comes at the worst possible time. And it isn’t even really Ukraine’s fault. As even the staunchly pro-Maidan American-run media there have to admit, the mix of oligarchy, corruption and erosion of democracy has become embedded in the East European country. Eyeing re-election, Zelensky is clamping down …

On Tuesday, the Iranian army test-fired the Mersad-16 missile system in the Dasht-e Kavir desert in the north-central province of Semnan, Iranian media reported. The indigenously developed hardware is made to intercept high-speed targets such as cruise missiles at low altitudes, Brigadier General Mohammad Khoshghalb, Deputy Chief of Operations of …

Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Norihisa Tamura offered a possible explanation for the contaminating matter found in Moderna vaccines in the prefecture of Okinawa. He said that it was most likely the result of needles being incorrectly inserted into vials, resulting in pieces of rubber entering the vaccine. The health …

“It is a dark time indeed to be a Hindu, a patriotic Indian, or an adherent to the truism of Hindu faith, history, and philosophical enquiry,” Saurav Dutt, Indian-born political analyst and author, says, commenting on the conference, scheduled for September 10-12. The three-day ‘Dismantling Global Hindutva’ conference lists departments …

Speaking to British broadcasters, the BBC and Sky News, on Tuesday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said that the UK evacuation effort had taken mitigating action prior to the terrorist attack on Thursday. He stated that the UK had warned people to stay away from Kabul airport amid credible intelligence of …

Zapata was stopped after taking a barrage of unanswered strikes in the corner during last weekend’s fight against Marie-Pier Houle in Montreal, with video footage of the jarring incident having been posted online. The Mexican boxer was fighting in her sixth professional bout at the GYM Gala Boxing event where she …

Representing the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC), Dmitry Safronov won the gold in the men’s 100m T35 race on Monday with a new world record of 11.39 seconds. Clinching the bronze, compatriot Artem Kalashian was 0.36 seconds slower and completed an impressive double-medal finish for the RPC team. In between the …