Top 10 world news: Austin in Afghanistan, Pope asks to fight crime and more
Top 10 world news
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has paid a surprise visit to Afghanistan. His visit has come just weeks before the May 1 deadline for US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.Meanwhile,Pope Francis urged people to fightorganisedcrime such as the 'mafias'on Sunday. He warned that criminals were using coronavirus pandemic for their own benefit.Read this and more in Top 10 World News at this time.
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin pays surprise visit to Afghanistan
Austin's reported Afghanistan visit has come on the heels of him being in India
UK nuclear arms plan is illegal: Russian envoy
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How fast can the Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jet really fly?
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Did China ask its people 'not to respond to aliens'? Origin of bizarre claim on social media
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MS Dhoni-CSK Fallout? Report claims failed stake sale talks triggered rift
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Scientists reveal the SAFEST COUNTRY when catastrophe strikes the planet
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Serial killer on the loose in South Korea's Jeju Island? Fourth body found in three days as more than a dozen people go missing
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2/3rd of glacier detached, collapsed: ISRO satellite images reveal what triggered Nepal floods
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Trump once again claims without him there would be ‘no Israel right now’
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Foreign espionage attacks against German companies surge to 37%, Bitkom report reveals
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Blake Lively wins partial legal fee from Justin Baldoni after $8M request
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Why is Pakistan deploying Turkish Bayraktar TB2 drones near India border?
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'OH MY GOD! We've found other agents!': Investigators discover not one or two, almost 700 OpenAI AI agents went rogue, hacked Hugging Face
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Lunar eclipse 2026: India timings, places to see and more. August Blood moon factsheet
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RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on global outreach tour
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Both pilots killed as training aircraft crashes in Lucknow – What we know
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16-year-old charged with preparing terror attack on kindergarten in Norway
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How the S-400 protects itself from enemy attacks
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Nepal floods: Over 165 dead, 400 missing; US, India, China, World Bank mobilise aid
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India's multi-layered watch: The new surveillance war
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5 doomsday planes spotted in US skies hours after CIA director's secret trip to Russia
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9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to finally face trial in 2028, nearly 27 years after horrific attacks
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Islamabad hospital fire: What we know about one of the biggest facility that housed Imran Khan
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Workers run for life while filming Nepal flash flood: Scary new visuals emerge from Rasuwa
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Russian military planes enter South Korean air defence zone amid rising tensions with North Korea: What's happening
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Ron Weasley Is Back! Rupert Grint set to return to Harry Potter universe on Broadway
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400-year-old 'vampire' grave in Poland reveals non-existent genetic lineage
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Dolly Parton, global icon and queen of country music, dies at 80
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Nepal flash floods: Kailash Mansarovar yatra affected, close to 400 pilgrims out of contact
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'If he is dead, they're putting on a pretty good show': Trump casts fresh doubt over Mojtaba Khamenei's fate
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Man arrested near US Capitol with guillotine in pickup truck: What happened?
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Why the Su-30MKI cockpit is painted bright turquoise green
The Kremlin said at the time that it regretted the British nuclear decision, which it suggested would harm international stability, while the Russian foreign ministry described the move as a serious blow to international arms control
Pope Francis vs Mafia? Holy Father urges people to fightorganisedcrime
Italian police say that crime clans are using coronavirus pandemic as an opportunity to winfavourwith people
AstraZeneca clarifies its vaccine has no pork-derived ingredients
Indonesia’s highest Muslim clerical council, the Indonesia Ulema Council, said on its website Friday that the vaccine is "haram" because the manufacturing process uses "trypsin from the pork pancreas."
US and Japan affirm cooperation over Taiwan emergency
China regards Taiwan as a renegade province awaiting reunification, by force if necessary. To this end, Tokyo’s policy on China-Taiwan relations has always been to encourage dialogue for a peaceful solution to cross-strait tensions.
Japan PM pledges to prevent coronavirus' resurgence as emergency measures end
Suga on Thursday announced that the months-long emergency measures for Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba and Saitama would end at midnight on Sunday, a move underscoring his government's eagerness tominimiseburdens on businesses and keep the economy going, despite concerns raised by experts about the potential for an upsurge
Putin pilots bumpy all-terrain rig on Siberian holiday
Video released by the Kremlin from inside an all-terrain vehicle showed the president at the wheel of a vehicle that pulled branches from overhanging trees as itbarrelledover snow-laden tracks through dense forests of birch
Russia's US envoy Anatoly Antonov returns to Moscow after 'killer' row
Russia's envoy to the United States Anatoly Antonov landed at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport Sunday morning, Russian news agencies reported, after he was recalled last week over the spat
Paraguay president survives impeachment bid by opposition over pandemic
Abdo's conservative government has faced fierce protests in recent weeks as a surge in Covid-19 cases has left hospitals on the brink of collapse and out of drugs, while the country has been slow to secure vaccines
Brazil stares into the abyss as Covid-19 surge pushes hospitals to brink of collapse
It is being reported that the Covid intensive care units in virtually all of Brazil’s 26 states and the federal district containing the capital, Brasília, are now either at, or perilously close to capacity.