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Taliban names remaining Ministers in caretaker govt
"The newly introduced members of the cabinet are professional personalities including doctors and highly educated persons, also from minorities," Mujahid told reporters at a press conference. The newly introduced cabinet members have been appointed in line with the decree of Taliban supreme leader Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, Mujahid said.
Musk mocks Biden for not appreciating SpaceX's historic civilian flight
One of Musk's followers on Twitter asked him, "The President of the United States has refused to even acknowledge the 4 newest American astronauts who helped raise hundreds of millions of dollars for St. Jude. What's your theory on why that is?" Musk replied, "He's still sleeping." The tweet drew sharp reactions from social media users.
War games erupt across Asia to counter Taliban threat
While the Peace Mission-2021 multilateral exercise of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) member countries is being held at the Donguz training ground in the Orenburg region of South West Russia, the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) member states have also announced a series of large-scale exercises on the Tajikistan-Afghanistan border.
Pakistan wants Afghan assets to be unfreezed
"In my opinion, unfreezing the frozen assets of Afghanistan for (the) Afghans may serve as a major step for confidence-building that could also incentivise positive behaviour," he said on Monday while interacting with the UN's press representatives in New York. "On one hand, you're raising fresh funds to avert a crisis and on the other hand money that is theirs -- belongs to them -- they cannot use.
Chicago Public Schools report 481 Covid cases in 3 weeks
The data on the district's public case tracker reflects 329 student cases and 152 adult cases for the period from August 29 through September 19, Xinhua news agency quoted the Chicago Tribune as saying in a report on Monday. The district's latest update shows more than 4,000 Covid-19 tests have been administered this school year through its screening program, with four people testing positive last week.
Iran nuclear chief says time for US to lift sanctions
In an address to the 65th regular session of the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which kicked off in the Austrian capital Vienna on Monday, Eslami on Monday noted that Washington's "maximum pressure" policy against Iran, introduced and pursued by former US President Donald Trump, has ended in failure, reports Xinhua news agency.
17 Indo-Canadians elected MPs as Trudeau fails to win majority
In the elections held on Monday, Trudeau's ruling Liberal Party again ended up 14 seats short of the 170-mark in the 338-member House of Commons. The Jagmeet Singh-led New Democratic Party (NDP) will again hold the balance of power as it increased its tally from 24 to 27. The main opposition Conservative Party ended up with a tally of 122 seats one up from the dissolved House. Among the 17 Indo-Canadian winners are Jagmeet Singh, former Minister Tim Uppal and three current Cabinet Ministers Harjit Singh Sajjan, Bardish Chagger and Anita Anand.
Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen's Marib kill 35 Houthis
"The airstrikes targeted four convoys of the rebel reinforcements in and around the western Sirwah district, destroying 13 pick-up vehicles and killing 35 Houthis rebels," the source told Xinhua news agency on Monday. Meanwhile, the Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported 23 Saudi-led coalition airstrikes on Sirwah without providing further details. Sirwah is a main frontline between the rebels and the Yemeni army in Marib.
Jaishankar urges UK Foreign Secy to resolve quarantine curbs on vaccinated Indians
Under new British rules unveiled last week, Indians who have received two shots of the Covishield jab will be treated as unvaccinated and have to quarantine themselves for 10 days, even though the vaccine is the same as the AstraZeneca vaccine developed by Oxford University but manufactured in India and in use many Western countries like Canada.
UK begins trial of multi-variant Covid booster vax
On Monday, a married couple, both in their 60s, became the first participants in the trial, a collaboration between the University of Manchester and a National Health Service (NHS) foundation trust in the city, reports Xinhua news agency. Launched by US pharmaceutical company Gritstone, the drug, called GRT-R910, is claimed to boost the immune response of first-generation Covid-19 vaccines to a wide array of variants of Sars-Cov-2, which cause the disease.
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