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A shocking new video has emerged appearing to show a group of heavily armed Taliban soldiers surrounding an Afghan television presenter as he says "the Afghan people should not to be afraid".
Afghan-born Australian BBC journalist Yalda Hakim shared the footage from Afghan TV network Peace Studio on Monday.
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The United States on Monday said it had completed the withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan following a chaotic airlift nearly 20 years after it had invaded the country in the wake of the September 11, 2001, attacks on America.
More than 122,000 people have been flown out of Kabul since August 14, the day before the Taliban - which harbored the al Qaeda militant group blamed for the 2001 attacks on New York and Washington - regained control of the country.
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An Afghan national who helped New Zealand forces and is now on the Taliban’s hit list has reportedly escaped to temporary safety with his wife and 3-month-old daughter.
Shaib Mohammad provided personal security for engineers in Afghanistan working for the New Zealand Provincial Reconstruction Team, a military deployment sent to support stability and reconstruction efforts.
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The Chinese Communist Party is celebrating the 70th anniversary of what state-run media calls the “peaceful liberation” of Tibet. Liberation from . . . self rule? From being able to follow your customs, practice your religion, speak your own language and not be put in a re-education camp? The Tibetans must feel do indebted to the Chinese Communist Party for saving it from that awful fate.
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South African scientists have detected a new coronavirus variant with multiple mutations but are yet to establish whether it is more contagious or able to overcome the immunity provided by vaccines or prior infection.
The new variant, known as C.1.2, was first detected in May and has now spread to most South African provinces and to seven other countries in Africa, Europe, Asia and Oceania, according to research which is yet to be peer-reviewed.
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China has forbidden under-18s from playing video games for more than three hours a week, a stringent social intervention that it said was needed to pull the plug on a growing addiction to what it once described as "spiritual opium".
The new rules, published on Monday, are part of a major shift by Beijing to strengthen control over its society and key sectors of its economy, including tech, education and property, after years of runaway growth.
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The U.S. intelligence community does not believe it can resolve a debate over whether a Chinese laboratory incident was the source of COVID-19 without more information, U.S. officials said in a declassified summary on Friday.
U.S. officials said only China can help solve questions about the true origins of the virus that has now killed 4.6 million people worldwide. "China's cooperation most likely would be needed to reach a conclusive assessment of the origins of COVID-19," they said.
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North Korea appears to have restarted a nuclear reactor that is widely believed to have produced plutonium for nuclear weapons, the U.N. atomic watchdog has said in an annual report.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has had no access to North Korea since Pyongyang expelled its inspectors in 2009.
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