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YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp Block Taliban-related Content

Social media platforms like Facebook and TikTok on Tuesday announced that they won’t lift bans on content that promotes the Taliban after the group took control of Afghanistan. The social media giants told CNBC news agency that they consider..
India evacuates diplomats from Afghanistan amid security concerns

India has evacuated its ambassador and all other diplomats from Afghanistan, the foreign ministry said. They were flown out in a special military flight on Tuesday to the Hindon airbase near capital Delhi. The aircraft was carrying around 150 p..
Hungary to send evacuation mission to return citizens from Afghanistan

Hungary said on Wednesday it had organised the evacuation of a group of 26 Hungarian nationals working as contractors from Afghanistan and they would return to Hungary shortly on a flight organised by another country. Hungary is also sen..
Evacuations from Afghanistan gather momentum as Taliban promise peace

More than 2,200 diplomats and other civilians have been evacuated from Afghanistan on military flights, a Western security official told Reuters on Wednesday, as efforts gathered pace to get people out after the Taliban seized the capital. ..
Afghanistan: The Taliban's victory will test India, and peace in South Asia

BBC The Taliban's blisteringly fast takeover of Afghanistan has stunned security and diplomacy experts worldwide. Days after the fall of Kabul, nations are hurriedly evacuating their diplomats and citizens, leaving behind two decades of work a..
Philippines willing to accept refugees from Afghanistan

The Philippines will open its doors to Afghans fleeing Taliban rule, said Malacañang on Tuesday, August 17.
Gorbachev, leader who pulled Soviets from Afghanistan, says U.S. campaign was doomed from start

REUTERS Mikhail Gorbachev, the leader who oversaw the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan in 1989 after Moscow's failed decade-long campaign there, said on Tuesday that NATO's own deployment to the country had been doomed from the..
WHO concerned about COVID-19 in Afghanistan as jabs slow

REUTERS The World Health Organization (WHO) is worried about the spread of the coronavirus in Afghanistan as the upheaval caused by the Taliban advance and seizure of power has slowed vaccinations, a spokesperson said on Tuesday. "As the s..
Turkey welcomes Taliban statements since their takeover in Afghanistan

REUTERS Turkey is in talks with all parties in Afghanistan, including the Taliban, and views positively the messages the Islamist militants have sent since taking control of the country, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday. Cavuso..

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