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Angelina Jolie joins Instagram to amplify voices of Afghans fighting for '
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 21 (ANI): Oscar-winning actor Angelina Jolie joined social media giant Instagram in order to use her enormous reach to speak about the turmoil in Afghanistan and amplify voices of people fighting for their "basic human rights" across the globe.
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Blinken thanks US partners for aiding evacuation from Afghanistan
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], August 21 (ANI): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday thanked its partner countries who played an important role to help them evacuate US citizens and 'at-risk Afghans' from Kabul.
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UNDP alarmed over 'current trajectory' of Afghan conflict
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [US], August 21 (ANI): The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has raised alarm over the ongoing situation in Afghanistan after Taliban took over the country after a swift offensive.
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UK to offer COVID vaccines to arriving Afghans
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
London [UK], August 21 (ANI): The United Kingdom will provide vaccines against COVID-19 to Afghans coming to the country, the government said on Friday.
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Pakistan's pro-Taliban stance rooted in 'fear of India' despite spillover
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], August 20 (ANI): Islamabad's reaction to the Taliban's victory was the opposite of the despair in Western capitals. Their triumph showed that Afghans had "broken the shackles of slavery", Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan asserted.
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Emergence of Taliban in PoK disturbing, says Pashtun leader
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan] August 20 (ANI): Provincial president of Awami National Party Aimal Wali Khan said the emergence of the Taliban in Gilgit Baltistan in PoK is "very disturbing."
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Turkey won't become Europe's 'refugee warhouse', warns Erdogan as Afghans
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], August 20 (ANI): Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on other European countries to take responsibility for Afghans fleeing the Taliban, stating that Ankara has no obligation to be a "Europe refugee warehouse".
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Taliban ask imams to urge Afghans not to leave nation
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 20 (ANI): The Taliban have asked the imams to urge the Afghans to not leave the country during Friday's sermon as the collapse of government and takeover by the terror group have forced people in Afghanistan to leave the nation, a media report said.
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UNESCO says it will ensure Right To Education for all Afghans
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Paris [France], August 20 (ANI): Amid the rapidly evolving events in Afghanistan, UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay has declared that "the fundamental right to education for all, in particular for girls and women, must continue unhindered".
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Taliban captured key US military biometric devices: Report
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 19 (ANI): The Taliban have captured the US military's biometric devices compromising crucial data of the US army and the local Afghans who played crucial roles during the war, a media report said on Wednesday.
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Brussels: Afghan diaspora protest Taliban takeover, seeks EU's interventio
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], August 19 (ANI): Hundreds of Afghans protested in front of the European Commission, European Council, and the European External Action Service (EEAS) against the Taliban takeover and urged the 27-nation bloc to save people of Afghanistan from the terror group's inhumane r
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Over threefold rise in trauma cases in Afghanistan: WHO
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], August 19 (ANI): There has been more than a threefold rise in the number of trauma cases in Afghanistan in recent weeks, said the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday, urging that delivery of lifesaving aid and medical supplies to millions of Afghans must not
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