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The Taliban claimed that the new US position on the blacklist is a violation of the Doha Agreement.

Former boxer Juan Manuel Lpez was charged Wednesday in a domestic violence case and released under electronic surveillance after posting a $175,000 bail.

Compared with 2019, the number of people reached with HIV prevention and treatment dropped by 11 percent last year, while HIV testing dropped by 22 percent.

A decline of 11% was reported in HIV prevention programmes and services.

Severe flooding led to the deaths of 17 people at a hospital in the central Mexican state of Hidalgo after torrential rains caused the River Tula to burst its banks, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday.

The CIA man who briefed President George W. Bush on Sept. 11, 2001, and later President Barack Obama on the intelligence that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden said Tuesday that hes convinced the Taliban will invite alQaida to rebuild in Afghanistan.

Blinken was speaking on Tuesday at a joint news conference with Qatars top diplomats and defense officials

At least 70 people, mostly women, rallied outside the Pakistani embassy, holding banners and chanting against what they said was meddling by Islamabad.

The Panjshir Valley is famed for being the site of resistance to Soviet forces in the 1980s and the Taliban in the late 1990s.

Blinken, accompanied by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, is the most senior US official to visit the region since the Taliban's lightning takeover of Afghanistan on August 15.

As American forces began their withdrawal, the Taliban took over Afghanistan in a lightning campaign, with only the northern province Panjshir holding out against the hardline Islamists.

Croatia stayed on course to reach the 2022 World Cup in Qatar after an 86thminute goal from midfielder Marcelo Brozovic gave them a vital 10 win at Slovakia in their Group H qualifier on Saturday.

Afghan female filmmakers who fled the Taliban begged the world to not forget the Afghan people and to support its artists, warning Saturday that a country without culture will eventually lose its identity.

By 2010, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar became a prominent face in fight against the US. He also established tie-ups with the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.

Syrian air defenses confronted missiles fired by Israel in the skies over Damascus, the state news agency said early on Friday.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has agreed to restart 16 defense advisory boards, after halting activity by all the panels in February and essentially purging a number of members who were appointed in the final days of the Trump administration.