Top 10 world news: al Qaeda asks Taliban to free Kashmir, Joe Biden’s former interpreter still stuck in Kabul & more
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As UK and US continue to face mounting criticism over their inability to predict the Taliban’s swift takeover of Afghanistan, UK foreign minister Dominic Raab on Wednesday clarified that they had credible intelligence reports indicating that the fall of Kabul government was unlikely this year. Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden’s former interpreter has made a fervent appeal to the authorities to rescue him from Kabul after he failed to join the evacuation operations. The interpreter was working regularly for the US Army at the time, taking part in combat missions, In COVID-related news, Japan has decided to put on hold inoculation plans in Kanagawa Prefecture after a pharmacist saw black particles in one vial of the vaccine.
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Raab said that Britain's intelligence services had assessed that the Taliban would only consolidate their control of Afghanistan in months after western countries had evacuated their troops
Mohammed (a name used by Wall Street Journal to protect his identity) had helped rescue Biden in a 2008 Afghan snowstorm. Back then, Biden was a senator who was stuck with two other lawmakers while visiting Afghanistan
Attacks against Asian Americans surged 70 per cent in 2020—a trend that has been linked to the rhetoric that blames Asian people for the spread of Covid-19
Anas Haqqani, the Taliban leader and scion of Afghanistan's feared Haqqani Network, has called for an amicable relationship with India and pledged not to interfere in the Kashmir issue
The company said it would not discipline its employees because the rules will be based on mutual trust
Biden purportedly offered aid to Ghani on the condition that if he could publicly project that he had a plan to control the situation in Afghanistan
Al Qaeda congratulated the Taliban for defeating the Americans and asked it liberate Kashmir from the “clutches of the enemy”
A point-by-point fact that seeks to dispel the notion that the restoration works tampered with Jallianwala Bagh memorial site
A TV channel in Ivory Coast has earned ire of people after it tried to demonstrate a rape with the help of a male guest
The WHO has warned that a new coronavirus varaint dubbed as Mu, which was found in Columbia in January, may evade the anti-bodies created by the vaccines
