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Tokyo: Japan has ordered the evacuation of 1.23 million people in four southwestern provinces over the heavy rainfall, media reported on Saturday.The evacuation was ordered for residents of the prefectures of Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the NHK broadcaster...

London: UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said Friday that every option would be on the table if Afghan militants were to harbour the al-Qaeda terror group in their country.A military solution, however, would not solve the Central Asian nation's...

Doha/Kabul: Countries participating in the Doha meeting have called for an immediate halt to violence and attacks on cities across Afghanistan and stressed they will not recognize any government-imposed through the use of military force, even as the Taliban...

Kabul: The Taliban captured Puli Alam, the capital of Afghanistan's eastern Logar province, which is located just 50 kilometres (31 miles) south of Kabul, provincial lawmaker Saeed Qaribullah Sadat confirmed to Agence France-Presse on Friday."Now the Taliban are 100...

London: Six people, including the suspect, were killed in a shooting on Thursday evening in Plymouth, a port city in Devon in southwest England, local police confirmed.Devon and Cornwall Police tweeted that police were called to "a serious firearms...

Kabul: The Taliban Islamist movement (banned in Russia) has established control over Kandahar, Afghanistan's second-biggest city, the Associated Press news agency reported, citing regional authorities.The city was reportedly seized on late Thursday, with local officials fleeing to the airport...

Wuhan: Twenty-one people were killed and four others missing as heavy rain lashed a township in central China's Hubei Province from Wednesday to Thursday, local authorities said Friday.The Liulin Township in Suixian County saw total precipitation reaching 503 mm...

Mexico City: A Russian cargo plane has arrived in Cuba with 41.5 tonnes of humanitarian aid as the island nation is going through hard times due to the tightening of the US economic embargo, the state-run Prensa Latina news...

Kabul: The US is sending 3,000 troops to Afghanistan to assist in the evacuation of its people out of the country as the Taliban advances on Kabul.Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said three battalions, one US Army and two Marines,...

Washington: The Biden administration is trying to get assurances from the Taliban terror group (banned in Russia) that the militants will not attack the US Embassy in Kabul if the group takes the capital, two American officials told the...