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UK and Germany seek common G7 approach on Taliban
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and German Chancellor Angela Merkel discussed the situation in Afghanistan on Saturday and agreed on the need for international aid and a common...
Aug 28, 2021
Russia wants CSTO security alliance to boost cooperation over Afghanistan
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow will work more closely with fellow members of a post-Soviet security alliance as the withdraw of U.S. forces from Afghanistan raises regional security risks, Russia's defence...
Aug 28, 2021
UK ambassador to Afghanistan says time has come to end airlift
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's ambassador to Afghanistan, Laurie Bristow, said on Saturday that the time had come to end an airlift which had evacuated almost 15,000 Afghan and British citizens over the...
Aug 28, 2021
“We did our best” on Kabul evacuation, NATO representative says
ROME (Reuters) - Staff involved in efforts to evacuate as many people from Kabul as possible after the Taliban seized power did their best in extremely difficult conditions, NATO's senior civilian rep...
Aug 28, 2021
Philippines’ Duterte lifts casino ban in top tourist island Boracay
MANILA (Reuters) - Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has lifted a moratorium on casino operations in the country's top holiday island to generate taxes for its COVID-19 pandemic response, the pres...
Aug 28, 2021
Protesters to march in Washington, U.S. cities for voting rights
(Reuters) - Protesters will march in U.S. cities on Saturday to demand protections for voting rights, using the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic 1963 March on Washington to push back a...
Aug 28, 2021
Mideast leaders plus France meet in Baghdad to talk security, diplomacy
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Several Middle Eastern leaders and French President Emmanuel Macron met in Baghdad on Saturday at a summit hosted by Iraq, which wants its neighbours to talk to each other instead ...
Aug 28, 2021
Britain says its final civilian flights will soon leave Afghanistan
LONDON (Reuters) -British troops will end their evacuation of civilians from Afghanistan on Saturday and many hundreds of Afghans entitled to resettlement in Britain are likely to be left behind, arme...
Aug 28, 2021
Chinese social media platforms to “rectify” financial self-media accounts
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's top social media platforms, Wechat, Douyin, Sina Weibo and Kuaishou, said on Saturday they would begin to rectify irregular practices of "self-media" accounts that publish...
Aug 28, 2021
U.S. Gulf Coast braces for Hurricane Ida after Cuba takes hit
By Maria Caspani and Steve Gorman (Reuters) - Hurricane Ida churned toward the U.S. Gulf coast on Saturday, forecast to gather strength in coming hours and prompting evacuations of flood-prone New Orl...
Aug 28, 2021
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