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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.
Report of American citizens beaten up by Taliban embarrasses Biden administration
Caught off guard in faraway Kabul, Joe Biden is also facing fire in Washington with several Senators calling for a detailed investigation into the botched withdrawal and evacuation plan. Joe Biden had warned Taliban that any attack on the US forces or disruption of their operations at the Kabul airport will be met with a swift and forceful response.
Azhar Masood's brother Rauf Azhar calls on Mullah Baradar to pledge allegiance
The JeM commander came to congratulate to the leaders of a fellow Sunni terrorist group for conquering Kabul and pledge allegiance. According to a report by the Hindustan Times, JeM's operational commander Mufti Abdul Rauf Azhar also met the chief of the Taliban's military wing and founder of the Taliban, Mullah Omar's son Mullah Mohammad Yakub.
Armed uprising against Taliban clears them out of 3 districts
Ever since the Taliban toppled all but Panjsher province on August 15, the fighters were engaged in their first armed conflict which erupted between them and the people's uprising. Former acting minister of defense, Bismillah Muhammadi who is now living in Panjsher province wrote on his Twitter handle that the people's uprising has recaptured pol-e-Hesar, Bano, and Deh Salah districts of Baghlan province.
Afghans running out of money as banks, ATMs shut for 7th day
Banks and cash machines in Afghanistan stay closed for the seventh day in a row. There's no cash inside the machines, no operational banks and no Western Union offices, which is where people from overseas would normally transfer money to. With these closed, it's now near impossible to send money into the country, BBC reported. People say they are running out of funds and anxiety is growing across the capital and other cities.
Children in India, Pak, B'desh at 'extremely high risk': Unicef
'The Climate Crisis Is a Child Rights Crisis: Introducing the Children's Climate Risk Index' (CCRI) is Unicef's first child-focused climate risk index. It ranks countries based on children's exposure to climate and environmental shocks, such as cyclones and heatwaves, as well as their vulnerability to those shocks, based on their access to essential services.
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