Key developments and global perspectives that matter.
Key developments and global perspectives that matter.
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Prince Harry has encouraged military veterans to "offer support for one another" as the Taliban seizes control of Afghanistan. The Duke of Sussex, 36, spent 10 years in the Army, including two frontline tours to Afghanistan. What's more, he is a patron of the Invictus Games Foundation, a sporting event…
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Photos have emerged on social media showing over 600 Afghan refugees crammed into a US Air Force plane. As reported by The Independent, the images show "roughly 640" Afghans being evacuated from the capital city of Kabul after Taliban forces forced Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to flee the country on…
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President Joe Biden has defended his decision to withdraw US forces from Afghanistan. In an address on Monday, the 78-year-old POTUS asked: "How many more American lives is it worth?" On Sunday, Taliban soldiers took control of Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul, forcing Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to flee the…
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Footage of an emotional Afghan girl declaring that "no one cares about us" days before the Taliban seized the presidential palace has been widely shared across social media. The heartbreaking clip was shared on Twitter by human rights activist Masih Alinejad and has quickly accumulated over 1.7 million views since…
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Malala Yousafzai has expressed deep concern for women and minorities in Afghanistan after the Taliban seized control of the country over the weekend. On Sunday, August 15, the Afghan president fled as the Taliban began rapidly taking over the capital city of Kabul before ultimately breaching the presidential palace and…
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Harrowing footage from Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul shows the moment desperate civilians held onto a moving US Air Force plane following the Taliban's storming of the city. On Sunday, Taliban soldiers took control of Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul, forcing Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to flee the…
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A BBC reporter has been praised for her professionalism after receiving a call from a Taliban spokesperson while live on air. On Sunday evening, Taliban soldiers took control of Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul, forcing Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to flee the country, along with many high-ranking officials. As reported…
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Kabul's international airport has experienced a rush of Afghan citizens, foreign diplomats, and officials as they attempt to flee Afghanistan, which has become overrun by Taliban militants. Harrowing footage shared on social media shows hundreds, possibly thousands, of people trying to fight their way through the terminal in order to…
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Animal rights organization PETA is calling for a total ban on horse events at future Olympic games. This comes after a German modern pentathlon coach was kicked out of the Olympics for punching a horse, and an another horse was put to sleep after suffering an irreparable ligament rupture at…
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An Olympic climbing athlete's devastating slip-up has gone viral after it caused her to miss out on a Tokyo 2020 win. Iuliia Kaplina of the Russian Olympic Committee was up against Team GB's Shauna Coxsey when she got off to a flying start in the first heat of the three-discipline…
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An Olympic skateboarder has taken a rail to the groin in a hard-to-watch wipeout. Angelo Caro Narvaez, 21, endured the painful accident at the Tokyo Olympics men's street heats after he attempted to grand a rail at an awkward angle and fell, causing his board to slip out from beneath…
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Viewers have poked fun at Team Norway's designers on social media after their winning triathlete's Olympic uniform turned see-through during competition. Kristian Blummenfelt, 27, took part in the men's triathlon - which involved a 1.5km swim, a 40km cycle, and a 10km run - but unfortunately, it was his outfit…
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Paralympians are to be paid the same as Olympians for winning medals for the first time in history. Efforts to change the fees paid to Paralympians began in September 2018, the International Paralympic Committee reports, and such changes were first applied to the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea -…
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The Dutch teenager who joined Jeff Bezos on his historic trip to space has revealed he's never actually ordered anything from Amazon. On July 20, 18-year-old Oliver Daemen made history when he traveled to the edge of space alongside Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the billionaire's brother, Mark Bezos, and aviation…
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A video has resurfaced on social media showing how men treated women drinking in bars back in the 1970s. Per Indy100, the clip stems from archival footage shared on YouTube by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), of a news segment from the current affairs program This Day Tonight, dating back…
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An Olympic swimmer was left angry after her baby was banned from the Tokyo Games. Spanish synchronized swimming captain Ona Carbonell, 31, has been banned from taking her one-year-old son to Tokyo 2020 and says she's been "made to choose" between her family and her sporting dreams. A lack of…
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German airline Lufthansa has announced that it will now greet customers with gender-neutral terms of reference. According to CNN, Lufthansa Group, which also owns Brussels Airlines and Eurowings, says that it is encouraging staff to not use gendered language when dealing with passengers. CNN reports that a spokesperson for the…
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A heroic bus driver in Italy was able to bring 25 school children to safety moments before the vehicle became engulfed in flames, BBC News reports. The man, whose identity has not been revealed, had been driving teenagers aged between 14 and 16 to a summer camp when the bus started…
