Former Indonesia vice-president Jusuf Kalla was a key figure in talks with the Taliban over the past two years. He too is waiting for the Taliban to do as it promised.

China earlier accused the US Vice-President, who is in Vietnam, of seeking to drive a wedge between countries in the region.

Poor execution of the withdrawal should not obscure the strategic justification for ending this 20-year war.

A baby under the age of one is the youngest person infected with the Delta variant in the country. Dozens more cases were added on Wednesday.

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The new law gives Belgians the right to enter a neighbour’s property to retrieve lost items, but there is a key condition.

Public health groups are using controversial micro-targeting techniques on Facebook to persuade political and religious conservatives to get their jabs.

Rather than co-pilots in the withdrawal effort, Joe Biden has treated America’s allies like powerless passengers. Now they feel dismayed and betrayed.

Britain’s fast-food supply chains have been hit hard as European truck drivers leave the country as Nandos and KFC also report shortages.

“We’ve already had gun-fighting break out,” Biden said in an address to the nation. “We run a serious risk of it breaking down as time goes on.”

A quarter of Los Angeles residents who caught COVID as Delta surged between May and July were vaccinated - but only 3 per cent of them were hospitalised.

More than 1000 refugees who have already fled Afghanistan defied a ban on public gatherings in the Indonesian capital and fought with police.

The President said he agreed to the nomination given “popular calls”.

An interpreter for the Australians says the Taliban have put up pictures of his family in the local mosque, seeking information on their whereabouts in hiding.

Australia-based former Hong Kong MP Ted Hui wants to know: “What does she have to say to my comrades thrown in jail?“.

This giant slow-moving vegetarian was recorded catching a bird and eating it. It is the first direct evidence of a tortoise hunting.

The Turkish President says the country has no intention of becoming “Europe’s migrant storage unit”.

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The outbreak began with one case a week ago.

“This is a galvanising event for jihadists everywhere.”

When it is fully built next year, the hypervelocity wind tunnel will give China significant advantage in the race to create hypersonic weapons.

Critics say they worry that the vaccine is being used before its effectiveness and safety have been proved.

The Taliban has labelled the August 31 withdrawal date a “red line”, raising the possibility of violence between the group and US forces. 

The woman said she met Kelly in his room at a hotel in Orlando, Florida, in 2015 after a member of the singer’s entourage gave her his number during a concert.

In giving up on Afghanistan, US President Joe Biden has undercut America’s position everywhere.

The international community should withhold recognition of the new government of Afghanistan.

The New York Governor defended his record and portrayed himself as the victim of a “media frenzy” as he prepared for a midnight power transfer.

The US has given full approval to Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, a milestone that could lift public confidence in the shots and spur more organisations to make vaccinations mandatory.

The US President was supposed to restore the world’s faith in America’s reliability after the Trump years, but the chaos in Kabul has diminished his reputation.

At least 20 people have been killed in shootings and stampedes at the international airport during chaotic scenes in recent days.

US Vice-President Kamala Harris has used her first visit to south-east Asia to reiterate the superpower’s commitment to security partners following the fall of Kabul.

The 65-year-old was among the first celebrity cricketers of the modern era and was appointed to the House of Lords last year as Baron Botham of Ravensworth.

Conditions had grown increasingly dire as thousands of arrivals accumulated in sweltering hangars without adequate toilets and showers.

Auckland will be kept on the high restrictions until August 31, PM Jacinda Ardern announced a week after the first case of Delta variant prompted a national lockdown.

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Mississippi’s health department said that more than 70 per cent of recent calls to the state’s poison centre came after people took ivermectin bought at livestock supply centres.

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“When the ships don’t move, the poop piles up,” a representative of the firm that uncovered the trend in satellite imagery, told an audience.

One British government source said the US was “in listening mode rather than making any commitments”. He added: “Biden seems pretty dug in”.

The US departure from Afghanistan reduces Washington’s influence in a region near China. However, it’s not clear how much Beijing will benefit.

The American-born icon will be laid to rest at the Paris monument which houses the remains of scientist Marie Curie, French philosopher Voltaire, writer Victor Hugo and other French luminaries.

The US ordered six commercial airlines to help transport people out of Afghanistan as dozens have died in the past seven days in and around the airport.

The collapse of churches in some of the worst-affected towns and villages left many residents to grieve in open fields.

As a result of human action, over the past half century the Atlantic Ocean has been relentlessly consuming Atafona, a town 250km from Rio de Janeiro.

He taught young chefs to distinguish between Parmesan cheeses of different ages — and between milk extracted at different altitudes. Then one day, his sense of smell vanished.

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Facebook has faced a torrent of criticism from US President Joe Biden and others who have alleged that the company has allowed misinformation about coronavirus vaccines to flourish.

The media mogul who founded Afghanistan’s first 24-hour news channel said executives were already drawing up plans to run broadcasts from outside the country.

The nation is under a strict lockdown amid an outbreak that has widened beyond Auckland and Wellington.

Long COVID – severe fatigue, brain fog, headache, muscle pain and sleep problems – can persist for weeks or months after the active infection has ended.