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Harry Potter rides, the Jurassic World Adventure and Minion Land… Chinese social media platforms were flooded with posts and photos posted by the lucky visitors to the Universal Beijing Resort theme park during its trial opening starting September 1. This is a rare time in a long while when an America-themed topic has attracted such […]

Members of the Afghan women’s national football team warm up before a friendly match in Kabul, Afghanistan, Oct. 29, 2010. (AP Photo)  Amid serious concerns for female athletes under Taliban rule, the Afghanistan women’s national football team left the country for neighboring Pakistan, the information minister in Islamabad said Tuesday. “We welcome Afghanistan women football […]

Citizens watch a news report on North Korea’s missile launch at Seoul Station in central Seoul on Wednesday. (Yonhap) North Korea on Wednesday fired a pair of ballistic missiles into the East Sea, following a cruise missile test that took place less than a week ago. According to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, two […]

(CNN)Afghanistan is no longer the US’ top concern among international terrorist threats to the American homeland, the nation’s top spy said at an intelligence and national security conference in Washington on Monday, even amid ongoing fears from some critics who argue that the country could become a haven for terrorist organizations like ISIS and al Qaeda to […]

Children enjoy a day out in Kashgar, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. [WEI XIAOHAO/CHINA DAILY] Hospitals in region provide evidence to show allegations are false Arezgul Tursun, head of the gynecology department at a hospital in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, examined forms signed by women consenting to the insertion or removal of intrauterine devices. She […]

An Afghan Air Force aircraft stands on the tarmac at Kabul airport, Afghanistan, on Sept. 11, 2021. (AFP Photo)  Pilots trained by the United States in Afghanistan that have been held in a camp in Uzbekistan for about a month started leaving the country Sunday, despite the Taliban’s demands for them to return, according to […]

  Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will meet Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday for talks on Israeli-Palestinian relations and bilateral issues, Egypt’s presidency said, in the first official trip by an Israeli head of government to Egypt for a decade. For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via […]

People sell their items at Kabul’s Chaman-e Hozori neighbourhood amid a liquidity crunch [Ali M Latifi/Al Jazeera  Kabul, Afghanistan – Shukrullah brought four carpets to sell in Kabul’s Chaman-e Hozori neighbourhood. The area is full of refrigerators, cushions, fans, pillows, blankets, silverware, curtains, beds, mattresses, cookware and shelves that hundreds of others carried to sell. The […]

A 26-year-old asylum seeker stabbed 5 people after being asked to show a ticket on a bus. In the escape he injured two controllers and two other people, in addition to the baby, hit with a slash in the neck © Felipe Caparros / Agenfotostock / Agf – Forensic findings on the scene of a crime […]

Afghan students listen to female speakers prior to their pro-Taliban rally outside the Shaheed Rabbani Education University in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 11, 2021. (EPA Photo)  The Taliban’s newly appointed higher education minister said women in Afghanistan can continue to pursue their studies in universities, including at the postgraduate level, but gender segregation will be implemented. […]