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Russian President Vladimir Putin used the platform of the 13th BRICS summit on Thursday to bash the US and its allies over their chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, saying it had created a mess the entire international community will have to clear up.

The United Nations (UN) has warned that cutting aid funds to the Taliban-run government in Afghanistan could throw millions into severe poverty and trigger a major refugee crisis.

Tel Aviv is not considering handing the Golan Heights over to the Damascus government, Israel's Foreign Minister Yair Lapid says.

COVID-19 infection rates in the United States are ten times the rate they need to be in order for the pandemic to end, chief White House medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci warns.

More Americans are more concerned about homegrown terrorism than they are about the threat of extremism from overseas, a new poll found.

Maasai Mara is one of the most important wildlife conservation and wilderness areas in Africa, famous for its populations of lion, African leopard, cheetah and African bush elephant.

North Korea has held a nighttime military parade in the capital Pyongyang to mark the founding anniversary of the nuclear-armed country.

About one hundred Palestinians were injured on Wednesday in clashes with Israeli forces near the West Bank city of Nablus, the Palestinian Red Crescent reported.

China says a US destroyer was “expelled” from disputed South China Sea waters after Beijing’s naval and air forces conducted whole-process tracking and monitoring and warned off it, accusing Washington of provocative actions at sea.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says that time was running out for Iran to return to a nuclear deal after a scathing report by the IAEA and Tehran's signals that it would take a while to return to talks. The Iranian government stresses the country is ready to restart talks to revive the 2015 agreement, but not under western pressure.

The Capitol Police is increasing security in preparation for potential violence at a September rally in which followers of former President Donald Trump intend to show support for people arrested after the deadly January attack on the Capitol, according to a statement and an internal memo on Wednesday.

Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani says leaving Kabul was "the most difficult decision of his life" as the Taliban encircled the capital, dismissing allegations that he did a runner with millions of dollars from Afghanistan.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has invited Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid to visit Washington soon to discuss mutual relations and issues related to Iran.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel used her last speech in the Bundestag before stepping down to warn about the rise of a broad left-wing coalition government, as her center-right CDU/CSU bloc falls in the polls.

Russia warns the West against raising stakes on the restoration of Iran's nuclear deal, including those via the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

A hacker has claimed to have stolen the personal information of around seven million Israelis by intercepting the website used by municipalities. If the claims are valid, the hack would be one of the most severe breaches of privacy in Israel’s history.

Russia is ready to engage in joint consultations with the United States to discuss the return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) or the Iranian nuclear deal, Moscow's top diplomat stated.

Scotland's first minister Nicola Sturgeon says the Scottish government will restart work on a "detailed prospectus" for independence ahead of a second referendum on the matter.

Palestinian resistance movement Hamas condemned the latest Israeli attack against the Gaza Strip, describing it as a desperate attempt by Tel Aviv to cover up its failure in the case of Palestinian jailbreak.

The Mu variant of COVID-19 - which scientists fear could be more transmissible than Delta - has now been detected in all US states with the exception of Nebraska.

A fire at an overcrowded jail in Indonesia has killed at least 40 people, authorities confirmed on Wednesday.

Michael McCaul (Texas), the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said on Sunday that the situation in Afghanistan is “worse” than before the September 11 terrorist attacks because the Taliban is “fully armed” with US weaponry.

The National Resistance Front (NRF) in the Afghan province of Panjshir rejected the Taliban’s claim about winning control of the region, with its fighters vowing to carry on their struggle against the militants.

A former US marine has shot and killed four people in Florida, including a woman and her three-month-old baby boy in her arms, before surrendering, acccording to police.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg welcomed cooperation with Russia and China in fight against terrorism in Afghanistan, but opposed the creation of a European army following the recent developments in the war-ravaged country.