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US fears IS attack at Kabul airport
A security alert on Saturday told US citizens to stay away due to possible "security threats outside the gates". Only those individually told to make the journey by a US government representative should do so, it said. US defence officials said they were monitoring developments and looking at alternative routes. No further details were given about the potential threat of an IS attack.
Non-Muslims in Afghanistan must pay jaziya: UK hate preacher
Anjem Choudary, 54, who inspired a generation of jihadi fighters and dozens of terrorist murders, also wants to ban music and mixing between sexes, and says non-Muslims should pay an "infidel tax", the Daily Mail reported. He has also urged the Taliban to impose a stricter form of Islamic justice, including stoning adulterers, chopping off the hands of thieves and lashing anyone caught drinking alcohol.
Taliban asks Russia to convey political signal to resistance in Panjshir Valley
A representative of the Taliban political office paid a visit to the Russian embassy in Kabul on Saturday, asking the Russian diplomats to inform the leaders of the remaining resistance centre in Panjshir that the movement looks to dialogue and seeks a peaceful solution, Moscow's Ambassador to Afghanistan Dmitry Zhirnov said on the YouTube channel Solovyev Live, TASS News Agency reported.
Bezos installs ice cream-making 'truck' at his Beverly Hills home
Los Angeles-based CVT Soft Serve shared a post on Instagram about this. "I just did an ice cream delivery to a guy that now has CVT on tap in his house 24/7. Thank you Jeff Bezos for being our first residential #CVTeeny client," the ice-cream making company posted. The 'CVTeeny' is an ice cream machine that looks like a truck and offers three flavours e chocolate, vanilla and twist.
Sense of fear prevails across Kabul, says returnee from Kabul
A passenger coming from Kabul, Hari Thapa said that the sense of fear looms across Afghanistan after the Taliban toppled the government there. "However, we didn't face much trouble as I was staying in a hotel in Kabul and somehow managed to reach the Kabul airport", he said.
8 dead, 3 missing after hurricane Grace hits Mexico
Grace, the second Atlantic hurricane of the season, made landfall in the early hours of Saturday with winds of up to 205 km per hour, leading to severe flooding in more than 20 municipalities in Veracruz. State police and the Mexican Army are engaged in rescue efforts and securing infrastructure after dozens of homes were flooded and the electricity in parts of the area was cut.
Baby passed over a wall at Kabul airport reunited with family
Images of parents attempting to hand over their children to soldiers have become a defining picture of the chaotic end to the West's involvement in Afghanistan, Metro UK reported. One video showed an American serviceman reaching over a barbed wire-fitted wall to grab a baby with one hand and haul it into the protected compound.
BLA's Majeed Brigade claims responsibility for Gwadar attack targeting Chinese nationals
The Chinese nationals working on the under-construction East-Bay Expressway were returning to their camp when their vehicle was hit by the blast, Dawn reported. The targeting took place along the coastal road near a fishermen's colony. "A young boy ran out of the colony once the convoy reached there to target Chinese vehicles," a statement by Pakistan Interior Ministry said.
Taliban attacked ITBP contingent, soldier returned from Afghanistan tells family
Shaila K. Neelagar, aunt of Ravi Neelagar, a soldier attached to Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) who returned safely to India from Afghanistan five days ago, has shared some of the information given by Ravi to them on Taliban's attack on Indian soldiers. Ravi was very sad that he lost all his belongings but family comforted him by saying his safe return is everything that matters to them.
Islamabad worried as over 4K anti-Pak militants released by Taliban enter Pakistan
For TTP it's a double celebration time. First, the "elder" brother is back in power, and second, the Taliban freed all TTP terrorists including a deputy of the group from Afghan prisons. And in a recently released video by the militant group, the TTP chief is shown welcoming his former deputy chief Maulvi Faqir Muhammad, who was released after the fall of Kabul.
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