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'Taliban practicing what Pak Army, intelligence telling them'
The Taliban are involved in the killing and destruction in the name of jihad and sparing no efforts to implement Pakistani orders in the country. Recently, videos on social media showed that Taliban were taking bodies of slain militants to Pakistan and holding the funerals there. The UN, US and NATO member states should do more to persuade Pakistan to give up support of terror groups.
Catastrophic floods kill over 120 in Europe, many still missing
Some countries inthe region received up to two months worth of rainfall in two days, with Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg strongly affected, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). In parts of western and southern Germany, towns and communities were hit by catastrophic flash floods after heavy and continuous rainfall this week.
Largest wildfire in Oregon grows with only 7% containment
The fire, beginning on July 6, has destroyed at least 11 homes and 35 other structures in Klamath County, Xinhua news agency quoted the report by the OregonLive as saying on Friday. Another 1,900 remain under threat. The fire had driven about 2,000 people to evacuate. Its growth prompted new evacuations in Lake County on Thursday evening, the OregonLive report said.
212 people dead in violent South African protests
Addressing reporters on Friday, Acting Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said the province of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) reported 89 more deaths, bringing the cumulative total to 180 fatalities, Xinhua news agency reported. The Minister added that Gauteng, another violence-hit province, reported 32 deaths.
Facebook is 'killing people' with Covid misinformation: Joe Biden
In an interaction with the media on Friday, Biden directly criticised Facebook. Asked for a message to social media platforms like Facebook, Biden replied: "They're killing people... the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated, and they're killing people." Facebook defended its policy on fighting vaccine misinformation.
Israeli forces dismantle dozens of Palestinian homes: UN
The Israeli military took at least 49 structures in the Ras al-Tin, Ramallah Governorate displacement on Wednesday, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a statement on Friday.
Heatwaves in US lead to surging illness: CDC
Heatwaves are occurring more frequently in the US, and climate change is causing heat waves to become more intense, directly impacting human health, including heat-related illnesses and deaths, Xinhua news reported citing the CDC study published on Friday as saying.
UK Covid daily cases pass 50K for first time since January
The country reported another 51,870 coronavirus cases in the latest 24-hour period, bringing the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 5,332,371, official figures showed, Xinhua reported. The country also recorded another 49 coronavirus-related deaths. The total number of coronavirus-related deaths in Britain now stands at 128,642.
Ex-Haitian official ordered President's killing: Colombia
"Joseph Feliz Badio, who was an official of the Ministry of Justice and worked in the anti-corruption unit with the General Intelligence Service, tells Duberney Capador (former Colombian military officer) and German Rivera (former agent of the Colombian army) that what they have to do is to assassinate the president of Haiti," General Jorge Luis Vargas, director of the Colombian Police, said at a press conference.
Flooding in Germany kills 80 people
The death toll in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate has increased to 50, and "the fear is that there will be more", said a police spokesman in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. According to figures previously released by the Interior Department of North Rhine-Westphalia, at least 30 people died in the state as a result of the disastrous weather, Xinhua news agency.
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