Driving to Taliban-controlled territory doesn't take long. Around30 minutes from the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif, passing large craters left by roadside bombs, we meet our host. Haji Hekmat, the Taliban's shadow mayor in Balkh district ...The Taliban have arranged a display of force for us ... This territory belongs to the mujahideen" ... .
Japan’s decision to start releasing “treated” radioactive water from its Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea in two years has triggered calls for an international tribunal over the issue. ... The plan will be implemented by ensuring broad and firm steps to prevent damage, he stressed ... This must not be allowed to go ahead ... .
A soldier installs an Enhanced Highband Networking Radio Highband RF Unit (HRFU) antenna on top of a 30m mast designed to provide a C5ISR aerial layer and meshed networking capability ... experimental unit designed specifically to coordinate far-flung, long-range operations.
US PresidentJoe Biden on Wednesday officially announced that American troops will return from Afghanistan on Sept. 11, saying "It is time to end the forever war." ... "We went to Afghanistan because of a horrific attack that happened 20 years ago, that cannot explain why we should remain there in 2021," said the president ... We were attacked ... .
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CAMEROON, Cameroon - Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr. Denis Mukwege warned Wednesday that the scourge of sexual violence and rape in all conflicts is now “a real pandemic” and without sanctions and justice for the victims these horrific acts won’t stop. The Congolese doctor told the U.N ... He lamented that sexual violence and impunity continue ... .
The court voted 10-1 Wednesday to uphold Justice Luís RobertoBarroso's order that the Senate should start an investigation of into Jair Bolsonaro's management of the crisis because a required number of senators had sponsored such a call. PUBLISHED ON APR 15, 2021 05.36 AM IST...Brazil’s seven-day average death toll hit a new record on Monday ... ....
Jerome Hughes. Press TV, Brussels. The European Commission has unveiled a five-year strategy to try and eliminate organized crime gangs in the EU that make profits of 139 billion Euros annually. Officials say cocaine is now rife across the 27-nation bloc. Drugs are at the center of the EU's organized crime network ... www.presstv.ir. www.presstv.co.uk ... .
By Nikolaj Skydsgaard and Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen. COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Denmark on Wednesday became the first country to stop using AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine altogether, following news of its possible link to very rare blood clot cases, health authorities said ... .