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The Taliban, which seized power in August and declared an Islamic emirate, are seeking international recognition and assistance to avoid a humanitarian disaster and ease Afghanistan's economic crisis
Nearly 200,000 hectares of forests -- more than five times the annual average -- were scorched by fires across Turkey this year, turning luscious green coasts popular with tourists into ash
They did not reveal the name of the victim, but said he received injuries and died before an ambulance arrived. The theater said the incident took place Saturday during a set change in Sadko, a 19th-century opera by Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Rights advocate Mohib Ullah was gunned down 10 days ago by unidentified assailants outside his office at Kutupalong, the world's largest refugee settlement in Bangladesh's southeast
Sister Gloria was taken hostage on February 7, 2017 in southern Mali near the border with Burkina Faso where she had been working as a missionary
Of the 24 members of Cuba's national baseball team who arrived in Mexico for the under-23 World Cup, only about half came home
Malian presidential office pays tribute to courage of Sister Gloria Cecilia Narvaez, who was held for four years, eight months
Officials say a ‘a hostile projectile’ fell on King Abdullah Airport
Volcano has badly damaged to banana plantations in La Palma, second-largest producer in the Atlantic Canary Islands, where crop accounts for 50 of island's economy
The former CNN bureau chief co-founded news website Rappler in 2012, bringing together multimedia reporting and social media to offer an edgy take on Philippine current events
Billed as a chance to prove France's commitment in particular to young Africans, the Africa-France summit gathering some 3,000 business leaders, artists and athletes in the southern city of Montpellier was largely dominated by the region's crises
A surge in jihadis violence in the region has cost thousands of lives
Haji Najibullah, 45, is in US custody, charged with kidnapping American journalist, two Afghan civilians
The move leaves only Hungary as the last hold-out against the far-reaching deal
Diaz said African American employees at the factory, where his son also worked, were regularly subjected to racist epithets and derogatory imagery
Ernest Lee Johnson was put to death by lethal injection for the 1994 murders of three convenience store workers during a botched robbery
The report documents the use of child soldiers, and says Europe-bound migrants face abuse in detention centers and at the hands of traffickers, while detainees languishing in horrific conditions are tortured
Suspected jihadis kill 14 soldiers in attack in northern Burkina Faso, defense ministry says, in the latest bloodshed to hit region plagued by Islamist violence
While the 2020 award was handed out as the pandemic raged, this is the first time the entire selection process has taken place under the shadow of Covid-19
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