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The collapse of a two-decade-long American experiment in state-building in Afghanistan gives Russia a chance to reassert itself in the region.

By taking a decision to withdraw from the Vietnam War, US tried to save its face and moral courage but in case of Afghanistan, the US decision seems awfully miscalculated.

A Utah reptile center employee is recovering after an alligator yanked her into its enclosure during a presentation, thrashing her around before a fastacting visitor leapt inside and freed her from its jaws.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's office said Pavithra Wanniarachchi's health portfolio had been given to Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella who is also the government spokesman.

New South Wales state Premier Gladys Berejiklian said seven people in Sydney had died from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours

The woman, 26-year-old Wu Huan, was on the run to avoid extradition back to China because her fiance was considered a Chinese dissident

He made his last bid to stay in power on Friday, appealing to opposition MPs to back him in a no-confidence vote, but his offer was rejected.

The death toll from a devastating earthquake in Haiti rose to 724 on Sunday with rescuers scrambling to find survivors buried under rumble and hospitals struggling to cope with thousands of injured, as a major storm barreled toward the Caribbean state.

Ariya Jutanugarn bogeyed the final two holes for an evenpar 72 on Saturday at windy Dumbarnie Links, leaving her tied for the lead with Charley Hull and Ryann OToole in the Trust Golf Womens Scottish Open.

This is the third time in about 40 years that Mazar-e-sharif will once again play a role in the military confrontation to gain control of Afghanistan.

Several plane-loads of asylum seekers have already departed with the first one landing Friday in Toronto

The Congressional Gold Medal is the highest civilian award in the United States.

A former Vermont ski resort president pleaded guilty Friday to providing false documents during a failed plan to build a biotechnology plant in Newport using tens of millions of dollars in foreign investors' money.

Israel was one of the first countries to launch a vaccination drive in mid-December via an agreement with Pfizer

As the Taliban sweeps across Afghanistan, there are signs the militant group is going back on a promise allowing women to work, according to interviews with female bank employees forced out of their jobs.

This ship, called the KM Umsini, used to ply a route ferrying up to 2,000 passengers between Indonesia's island cities.