Video shows final moments of Nepal flight before plane crashed killing 68 people
Rescue efforts are ongoing after the plane crash on Sunday
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UNSC members call on Taliban to reverse restrictions on Afghan women
Several members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) have urged the Taliban to end its repressive treatment of women in Afghanistan and respect their rights.
Russian ex-president Medvedev blasts Japanese PM over US ‘subservience’: ‘He should disembowel himself’
Medvedev said joint statement ‘betrayed the memory of hundreds of thousands of Japanese who were burned in the nuclear fire of Hiroshima and Nagasaki’
Global Risks Report: Understand the risk landscape in 2023 and beyond
For the past 17 years the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report has warned about deeply interconnected global risks. Conflict and geo-economic tensions have triggered a series of deeply interconnected global threats, according to the latest report…
Blast outside Afghan foreign ministry in Kabul causes casualties
An explosion outside Afghanistan’s foreign ministry in the capital Kabul on Wednesday caused a number of casualties, a Taliban official has confirmed.
Afghan aid at risk due to Taliban restrictions on women: UN
The United Nation’s lead humanitarian coordinator has warned that UN-supplied aid cannot continue if the Taliban do not lift their ban on women working for humanitarian aid agencies in Afghanistan.
Pentagon misled public on deadly drone raid in Kabul: Report
Erroneous assumptions and biases by US analysts led to the Kabul drone attack that killed ten civilians, including seven children, during the Pentagon’s chaotic August 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, an internal military investigation has found.
Taliban accuse British royal of committing “war crimes”
The Taliban administration has denounced Britain’s Prince Harry for his admission of killing 25 people while on military duty in Afghanistan, and a senior Afghan official has accused the royal of killing innocent civilians.
Afghanistan aid at risk from Taliban ban on women NGO workers, UN warns
’Without women working, we can’t deliver for the people who are in fact the primary objects of humanitarian assistance’
India Approves $2.3 Billion Plan To Become Global Hub for Green Hydrogen
The funding decision will support production, use, and exports of green hydrogen for the nascent industry.