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Taliban overruns last govt bastion in Afghanistan's Takhar
"Warsaj district collapsed to the Taliban fighters on Friday evening and the security forces based there retreated to Panjshir province," the official told Xinhua news agency. The Afghan government is yet to confirm the development. With the capture of Warsaj district, the Taliban have completed its grip on northern Takhar province.
Taliban warns India against military moves in Afghanistan
"If they (India) come to Afghanistan militarily and have their presence, I think that will not be good for them. They've seen the fate of military presence in Afghanistan of other countries, so it is an open book for them," Taliban spokesperson Muhammed Suhail Shaheen said as per media reports. He also denied that the Taliban has ties with other terror groups based in Pakistan.
Indian diaspora to unfurl biggest tricolour at Times Square in NYC
The FIA announced that the 6 ft by 10 ft tricolour hoisted on a 25 feet pole will be unfurled on Sunday by the Consul General of India in New York, Randhir Jaiswal, reports the American Bazaar news outlet. As part of the day-long celebrations to be organised by the FIA, the first India Day billboard at Times Square will also be displayed for 24 hours.
It is time to sanction Pakistan: US expert
Rubin said the American defeat to the Taliban and, by extension, Pakistan is a humiliation rooted not in a US military failure but the corrosiveness and short-sightedness of Washington's own political debate. "It is a blow the US might have avoided, but should not take without a response. Simply put, it is time to sanction Pakistan," said Rubin, who is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute where he specialises in Iran.
US troops arrive in Kabul to assist in Embassy evacuations
The TOLO News report cited the official as saying that the troops' arrival will continue till Sunday. On Thursday, US State Department spokesperson Ned Price had announced that the country will deploy thousands of troops to the Kabul airport to support the American Embassy staff drawdown as the security situation in Afghanistan continues to deteriorate.
Tallest building in US to be lit in Indian tricolour on Aug 15
"This initiative commemorates the world's largest democracy, India entering its 75th year of Independence," the American Bazaar news outlet reported on Friday citing the South Asian Engagement Foundation (SAEF), a community organisation, as saying in a statement. As part of the celebrations, other installations of the Durst Organization in New York at One Bryant Park and One Five One,will also be lit up with the tricolours.
Taliban claims control over 2 more Afghan provincial capitals
Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid on Friday posted on his social media account that the insurgents captured Tirin Kot, the capital of Uruzgan province, and Firoz Koah, capital of Ghor province. He also said that most parts of Pul-e-Alam, the capital of Logar province, has fallen to Taliban, adding that clashes continued at an intelligence agency office and two army bases in the city.
July 2021 officially the hottest month humans ever recorded
Extreme heat is also a reflection of the long-term changes outlined in a major report released this week by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). "In this case, first place is the worst place to be. July is typically the world's warmest month of the year, but July 2021 outdid itself as the hottest July and month ever recorded," said NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad.
Migrant border arrests in US rise to highest level in 21 yrs
Nearly 19,000 unaccompanied children crossed the border in July, almost equal to the record set this March, Xinhua news agency quoted the CBP data released on Friday as saying. Meanwhile, 76,000 parents and children crossed the border together as families, the second-highest total ever and a significant jump from June. The CBP data does not account for people who made it across the border.
US withdrawal from Afghanistan a mistake: UK Def Secy
Speaking to Sky News on Friday, Wallace said the withdrawal agreement negotiated in Doha, Qatar, by the administration of former US President Donald Trump was a "rotten deal", reports Xinhua news agency. "At the time of the Trump deal with, obviously the Taliban, I felt that was a mistake to have done it that way. We will all, in the international community probably pay the consequences of that," Wallace said.
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