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AT Kabul: One person has been killed after blasts rocked a military base in Crimea, the head of the regional administration there said. Sergei Aksyonov wrote on social media that the blasts had taken place at the Saky military base near Novofedorivka on the peninsula’s western coast. Russia’s defence ministry …

AT Kabul: The FBI executed a search warrant on former President Trump’s home in Florida on Monday, the ex-president said, lashing out at law enforcement for what he called “political persecution.” “My beautiful home Mar A Lago in Palm Beach, Florida is currently under siege, raided and occupied by a …

AT Kabul: Three senior commanders of the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have been killed in a blast in southeastern Afghanistan. According to Pakistani media quoting Pakistani officials and militant sources. Omar Khalid Khorasani, Abdul Wali Mohmand, , The other two were identified as Hafiz Dawlat and Mufti Hassan were killed …

Bernd Debusmann Jr, BBC AT Kabul: On 19 September, 2001 – with the ruins of the World Trade Center and Pentagon still smoldering from the 9/11 attacks – CIA officer Gary Schroen stepped into his boss’s office and received a set of orders: “Capture Bin Laden, kill him, and bring …

AT Kabul: With the depleting foreign currency reserves and rising inflation, Pakistan is on the brink of economic collapse and heading towards a path similar to the economic downfall of Sri Lanka. “Pakistan’s central bank, State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has sent out a distress signal to the government that …

AT Kabul: The world is one misstep from devastating nuclear war and in peril not seen since the Cold War, the UN Secretary General has warned. “We have been extraordinarily lucky so far,” Antonio Guterres said. Amid rising global tensions, “humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear …

AT Kabul: Joe Biden President of the United States has announced that US killed Ayman al-Zawahiri , the leader of al-Qaeda, who was involved in the September 11 attacks, in an airstrike in Afghanistan last Saturday. Ayman al-Zawahiri took over the leadership of the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization in 2011 after …

AT Kabul: Hundreds of protesters breached the Iraq’s parliament for the second time in a week as anti-government unrest continues. A large crowd of protesters stormed Baghdad’s heavily-guarded Green Zone and broke into the Iraqi parliament again on Saturday. The demonstrators were expressing their dissatisfaction with “the corrupt political class” …

AT Kabul: The meeting of foreign ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization was inaugurated in Tashkent on July 29, hosted by Vladimir Narov, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan and attended by the foreign ministers of Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, India and Pakistan and Zhang Ming, the Secretary General …

AT Kabul: A fast-moving wildfire in California continues to grow in size, firefighters say, as they struggle through sweltering temperatures. The Oak Fire has now burned 15,603 acres of land and is still “zero per cent contained”, California’s fire department said on Sunday night. But it added that the fire …