Baghdad, September 4 (AP): Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammed Saeed al-Hakim, one of Iraq's most senior and influential Muslim Shiite clerics, has died of a heart attack, members of his family said. He was 85.
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Leicester (UK), September 4 (The Conversation): As a scientist studying lead poisoning in children once remarked: it took two years to put lead into gasoline and 60 years to take it out . The consensus around l
Peshawar, September 4 (PTI): The Taliban have postponed the formation of a new government in Afghanistan for next week, their spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said on Saturday, as the insurgent group struggles to gi
Manila, September 4 (PTI): The Philippines on Saturday decided to welcome travellers from India and nine other countries from September 6, according to a Presidential Palace announcement. The announcement ca
Kabul, September 4 (IANS): A group of Afghan women staged a rally in Kabul demanding the inclusion of females in the country's new government headed by the Taliban, according to a media report. Frid
Washington, September 4 (IANS): A woman from Kansad who died in January 2020 has been listed as the first known person to die with Covid-19 in the US, according to local media reports. The death certificate
New Delhi, September 4 (IANS): Leader of the anti-Taliban resistance forces in Panjshir province, Ahmad Massoud has said that he will never stop his resistance for the sake of God, justice, and freedom. Mass
Istanbul, September 4 (AP): An official at Emergency Hospital in Kabul says two people were killed and 12 others wounded after Taliban fighters in the capital fired their weapons into the air in celebration.
Lusaka, September 4 (IANS): Lawmakers in Zambia elected Lusaka-based prominent lawyer Nelly Mutti as the country's first-ever woman Speaker of the National Assembly. On Friday, Cecilia Mbewe, clerk of th
Washington, September 4 (IANS): US President Joe Biden on Friday signed an executive order directing his government to review and release some documents related to the FBI's investigation into the September
Kabul, September 4 (IANS): The fate of Afghanistan's Panjshir Valley - the final holdout against Taliban control - hangs in the balance as heavy fighting continues. Even as the Taliban claimed that it has t
Washington, September 4 (IANS): The global coronavirus caseload has topped 219.7 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.55 million and vaccinations soared to over 5.40 billion, according to t
Washington, September 3 (IANS): Three doses of the vaccine against Covid can likely confer full protection, US infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci has said, as the US is soon expected to officially roll
Kabul, September 3 (IANS): Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar is set to lead a new Afghan government likely to be announced shortly, sources in the Islamist group said on Friday. The development c
Islamabad, September 3 (PTI): Amid concerns in India that Afghan soil under the Taliban regime can be used for terrorist activities against it, the insurgent group has said it has the right to speak out in
Tokyo, September 3 (IANS): At an extraordinary meeting of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) executives on Friday, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced his decision not to run in the upcoming leader
New Delhi, September 3 (IANS): Zabihullah Mujahid, the official spokesman for the Taliban regime, told an Italian newspaper that China was "our main partner and represents a fundamental and extraordinary o
Damascus, September 3 (IANS): A fresh Israeli missile strike targeted sites in Damascus on Friday, state news agency SANA reported. The Syrian air defenses intercepted missiles over the southwestern countrys
Moscow, September 3 (IANS): The US mission in Afghanistan over the past two decades "was not simply a failure, but a catastrophe", Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Thursda
Rome, September 3 (IANS): Italy will start administering a third Covid-19 vaccine shot to people with the most fragile immune systems and plans to extend the use of the so-called Green Pass certificate, the cou
