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UK to resettle teenage Afghan women footballers and families

Dozens of Afghan girls with promising football careers, who fled the Taliban, have been told they can come to the UK to be resettled, along with their…

Power balance has shifted against us: Ex-foreign secretary Shivshankar Menon on India-China standoff

On the India-China standoff, former foreign secretary Shivshankar Menon said that the "power balance has now shifted against us [India]". He was speaking…

AQ Khan: The most dangerous man in the world

On December 11 2003, a group of CIA and MI6 officers were about to board an unmarked plane in Libya when they were handed a stack of half a dozen brown…

Drugs arms and terror: A high-profile defector on Kims North Korea

The old habits of secrecy haven't left Kim Kuk-song.

It has taken weeks of discussions to get an interview with him, and he's still worried…

How Somali women are breaking tradition to write novels

In our series of letters from African journalists, Ismail Einashe considers how Somalia's story-telling tradition has changed since the civil war.

Plane crashes bursts into flames at Georgia airport 4 dead

Four people died in the plane crash at the DeKalb-Peachtree Airport in Georgia. An investigation is underway.

At least four people died after…

Covid is at the center of worlds energy crunch but a cascade of problems is fueling it

LONDON — Much of the world is suffering a punishing energy crisis.

Homes and factories across China are shrouded in darkness. India’s…

U.S. to accept international visitors who used WHO-approved COVID-19 vaccines

The United States will accept the use by international visitors of COVID-19 vaccines authorized by U.S. regulators or the World Health Organization,…