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18 Aug

Ex Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Taliban Leaders Meeting

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Taliban commander and senior leader of the Haqqani Network terrorist group, Anas Haqqani, has met former Afghan President Hamid Karzai for talks, a Taliban official said on Wednesday, amid efforts by Taliban to set up government. According to sources Karzai was accompanied by the old government's main peace envoy, Abdullah Abdullah, in the meeting, who declined to be identified.The Haqqani Network is an important faction of the Taliban, who captured the capital, Kabul, on Sunday. The network, based on the border with Pakistan, was accused over recent years of some of the most deadly terrorist attacks in Afghanistan. In the meantime,…

09 Aug

Thousands flee as wildfires engulf Greek island of Evia

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Thousands of people have fled their homes on the Greek island of Evia as wildfires burned uncontrolled for a sixth day on Sunday, and ferries were on standby for more evacuations after taking many to safety by sea. “I feel angry. I lost my home... nothing will be the same the next day,” said one resident after boarding a rescue ferry at Psaropouli. “It’s a disaster. It’s huge. Our villages are destroyed, there is nothing left from our homes,” she said. The blaze on Evia, a large island east of the capital, quickly burgeoned into several fronts, ripping through thousands…

05 Aug

Kim Woo Bin is in talks to play the legendary delivery knight 5-8

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Kim Woo Bin is in talks to play the legendary delivery knight 5-8 Kim Woo Bin is in talks to play the legendary delivery knight 5-8 in his new Netflix drama. Based on the webtoon of the same name, “Delivery Knight” will tell the story of a dystopian future in which pollution has become so severe that the only way to survive is to have everything delivered. On August 5, industry representatives reported that Esom will be starring in the Netflix drama “Delivery Knight”. If sources are to be belived it will be 10 years after Esom and Woo Bin will be…

26 Jul

By 2025, Covid will have cost world between $16 tn and $35 tn

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By 2025, Covid-19 will have cost the world between $16 trillion and $35 trillion, as per McKinsey. The world is unlikely to ever reach global herd immunity, but it can contain the virus with a combination of vaccines, improved testing, and smarter quarantining, based on known outbreaks, rather than large, blunt lockdowns, McKinsey said in a report. Obstacles to worldwide vaccination remain huge: while 49.6 per cent of inhabitants of high-income countries had received at least one dose of the vaccine as of July 14, only 1 per cent of those in low-income countries had. In the next two decades,…

26 Jul

US vows continued air support for Afghan forces fighting Taliban

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The United States will continue air strikes in support of Afghan forces fighting the Taliban, a top US general said Sunday, as the insurgents press on with offensives across the country. "The United States has increased air strikes in the support of Afghan forces over the last several days, and we are prepared to continue this heightened level of support in the coming weeks if the Taliban continue their attacks," General Kenneth McKenzie, head of the US Army Central Command, told reporters in Kabul. Violence has surged across the country in recent months after the Taliban launched a sweeping assault…

24 Jul

YouTube hits 10 bn Play Store download milestone

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The Google-owned YouTube app for Android users has surpassed a whopping 10 billion downloads on the Google Play Store. According to 9To5Google, video streaming has exploded in popularity over the past decade with improving global internet speed, introduction of 4G devices and increasing access to smartphones/tablets. As the largest and most well-known streaming platform globally, it was always likely that YouTube would become the first “proper” user-facing Android app to hit such a download milestone on the Play Store, it added. Given that the app comes pre-installed on almost all devices, it is marginally bolstered and could even include some…

05 Jul

Tropical storm Elsa hits Cuba

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Tropical storm Elsa has hit the eastern part of Cuba, bringing with it heavy rains and winds. The Institute of Meteorology (Insmet) reported on Sunday that the province of Guantanamo, in the extreme east of Cuba, was experiencing heavy rainfall and gusts of wind, while in nearby Santiago de Cuba, torrential downpours were also reported. The storm, which is moving at 20 km per hour with winds of 100 km per hour, has its centre about 216 m southeast of Cabo Cruz in the eastern province of Granma. The Civil Defense decreed an alarm for 11 of the 15 provinces…