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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison (ROHAN THOMSON / AFP)

Australian PM announces reopening of international travel, easing...

On March 20 last year Australia introduced some of the world's toughest border restrictions in response to the...

1 Oct 2021 10:40 AM IST

Bombay high court on Monday allowed all flight operators to allow passengers to occupy middle seats in flights. (AFP Photo)

Turkey, Uzbekistan to resume flights to Kabul; India yet to decide on...

It will be the first time Kabul is hosting commercial flights from the two countries after the Taliban takeover

30 Sept 2021 12:38 PM IST

This photo provided by the North Korean government shows what North Korea claims to be a new hypersonic missile launched from Toyang-ri, Ryongrim County, Jagang Province, North Korea, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. (AP)

North Korea says hypersonic missile made first test flight

A photo published in state media showed a missile mounted with a finned, cone-shaped payload soaring into the air amid...

29 Sept 2021 1:26 PM IST

Japans former Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida reacts as he won in the Liberal Democrat Party leadership election in Tokyo. (Photo: AP)

Japan's former Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida to become new Prime...

Kishida replaces outgoing party leader Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga

29 Sept 2021 12:08 PM IST

Families evacuated from Kabul, Afghanistan, walk through the terminal before boarding a bus after they arrived at Washington Dulles International Airport, in Chantilly, Va., on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021. (AP Photo)

U.S. bars flight from landing with Americans from Kabul: Report

Biden's administration has said its top priority is repatriating Americans and green card holders unable to leave...

29 Sept 2021 10:40 AM IST

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley listens to a Senators question during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the conclusion of military operations in Afghanistan and plans for future counterterrorism operations, on September 28, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Patrick Semansky / POOL / AFP)

US generals say they recommended keeping 2,500 troops in Afghanistan

Milley, McKenzie and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin were grilled by members of the Senate Armed Services Committee about...

29 Sept 2021 10:00 AM IST

In this photo, a nurse reaches for a vial of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a pop up vaccine clinic. (Photo: AFP)

Pfizer vaccine for kids may not be available until November

The company said Tuesday it provided health regulators with data from a recent study of its vaccine in children 5 to 11...

29 Sept 2021 9:16 AM IST

Taliban fighters stand guard on the backdrop of shops selling antiques and decorative merchandise at Chicken Street in Kabul on September 26, 2021. The once-bustling hotspot, where aid workers and adventurous tourists would shop for vintage tribal rugs, pottery and metalware, is almost empty of visitors looking for a bargain. (WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP)

Taliban issue no-shave order to barbers in Afghan province

During the Taliban's previous rule, the conservative Islamists demanded that men grow beards

28 Sept 2021 12:18 PM IST

Front from left, Franziska Giffey, top candidate of the SPD for Mayor of the German city of Berlin, Olaf Scholz, top candidate for chancellor of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), and Manuela Schwesig, member of the SPD and governor of the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, pose with flowers at the partys headquarter in Berlin, Germany. (Photo: AP)

Germany's Social Democrats win election but uncertainty beckons

Preliminary official results showed that the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) narrowly won the vote at 25.7 percent

27 Sept 2021 1:49 PM IST

An Afghan man has his photograph taken for facial biometric information as he applies for his passport at the passport office in Kabul. -AFP

Taliban to change Afghan passports, national identity cards

Deputy Minister of information & Culture said that the documents possibly will have the name 'Islamic Emirate of...

26 Sept 2021 12:47 PM IST

People walk and drive past election posters of the three candidates for German chancellor , from right, Armin Laschet, Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Annalena Baerbock, German Green party (Die Gruenen) and Olaf Scholz, Social Democratic Party (SPD), at a street in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Germanys closely fought election on Sunday will set the direction of the European Unions most populous country after 16 years under Angela Merkel, whose party is scrambling to avoid defeat by its center-left rivals after a rollercoaster campaign. (AP)

Germans vote in close election to decide Merkel successor

Merkel has been in power since 2005 but plans to step down after the election, making the vote an era-changing event

26 Sept 2021 12:31 PM IST

Earlier this month, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that the possibility of a complete economic collapse in Afghanistan was serious. (Representational image: ANI)

Taliban welcomes US measure to allow humanitarian assistance to...

Afghanistan is in complete turmoil and is in a state of chaos after the takeover of the Taliban and is in dire need of...

26 Sept 2021 11:26 AM IST