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While negotiations are ongoing within the Taliban leadership on the formation of government at Kabul, the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) is apparently demanding a stake in the Afghan pie.

Known as the "Leader of the Faithful", Haibatullah Akhundzada is the Taliban's supreme leader who holds final authority over the group's political, religious, and military affairs.

The U.S. Transportation Department on Wednesday said it will limit some flights from Chinese carriers to 40% passenger capacity for four weeks after the Chinese government imposed similar limits on four United Airlines flights.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Wednesday backed the central bank's recent moves to raise interest rates, but took a swipe at a board member for criticizing his plan to allocate International Monetary Fund resources to pay off debt.

Arizona's largest county is demanding the state Senate pay $2.8 million to cover the costs of replacing votecounting machines that the state's top election official says cannot be used again because of their handling during the Senate Republicans 2020 ele...

Multiple British media outlets have written an open letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson urging him to protect journalists and those who worked with them in Afghanistan by getting them out of the country following the Taliban takeover.

Russian authorities have added a prominent independent election monitoring group to its registry of foreign agents, a move that is part of a relentless government crackdown on independent media and activists ahead of the September parliamentary election.

A newspaper editor friend of former President Donald Trumps soninlaw Jared Kushner was hit Wednesday with state cyberstalking charges in New York, seven months after Trump pardoned him in a similar federal case just before leaving office.

An attorney for 22 women who have filed lawsuits accusing Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson of sexual assault and harassment said Wednesday that he and some of his clients have spoken to the FBI about the case.

President Joe Biden has invited Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to Washington next week to discuss Iran as well as Israel's relationship with the Palestinians, the White House said Wednesday.

Australia is in the grip of a third wave of infections that has exposed weaknesses in the country's vaccine rollout and forced more than half of its 25 million people into lockdown

A former Nevada prison inmate was sentenced Tuesday to three consecutive life sentences in the longunsolved 1984 hammer killings of three Colorado family members, including a 7yearold girl, inside their suburban Denver home.

Peru's foreign secretary resigned Tuesday amid criticism for comments he made about terrorism in the country in the late 20th century, leaving the new government of President Pedro Castillo less than a month after it assumed power.

Britain already plans to relocate 5,000 people as part of an Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy

Indiana health officials said Tuesday they are notifying nearly 750,000 state residents that a cybersecurity company improperly accessed their personal data from the state's online COVID19 contact tracing survey.

A Facebook Inc (FB.O) spokesperson said that WhatsApp would take action on any accounts found to be linked with sanctioned organisations in Afghanistan