Top 10 world news: Hong Kong tabloid Apple Daily shuts down, US experts say Kabul's fall not inevitable & more
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Days afterChina's crack-downatHong Kong's pro-democracy tabloidApple Daily's office,the newspaperhas shut down. Declaringitself a "victim of tyranny" in a defiant final edition, the publication endedit's 26-year run of criticising China's authoritarian government. Thousands of Hong Kongers were seen forming queues with residents racingto snap up one of the million copies of Apple Daily's final print.
In other news, as the Taliban makes furtherinroads in northern Afghanistan annexing thetown of Shir Khan Bandar, a dry border port linked with Tajikistan, US expertssay that Kabul's fall is not inevitable.
We also bring for you some interesting news about Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and how insurance companies are not ready to price the risk of losing the billionaire in space.
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In a defiant final edition,Hong Kong's pro-democracy Apple Daily tabloid,declared itself a "victim of tyranny", after being forced to close under a new national security law on June 24.
According to US experts, Kabul could be captured by the Taliban within a year as US forces withdraw fromAfghanistan, but its fall is not inevitable and will depend on a much better-run Afghan defence force.
Days after capturing a border crossing along theTajikistanborder, the Taliban made further inroads in northern Afghanistan annexing thetown of Shir Khan Bandar which is reportedly a dry border port linked with Tajikistan.
ChancellorAngela Merkeltold the German parliament that the EU should seek "direct contact" withRussiaas French President Macron said Europe's stability required a "demanding" dialogue with Russia.
Chinesemilitary saidthatTaiwan needs to be clearly aware that its future lies in "reunification" with China and that it cannot rely on the United States.
Russia has warned Britain againstunacceptable ''provocation''in the Black Sea afteritfired warning shots at a British navy destroyer forviolating the country's territorial waters,but the UK denied the incident had occurred.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel slammed Hungary's proposed new law prohibiting the distribution of homosexuality and gender change materials in schools.
In thefirst pardonpeople linked to the Tamil Tigers since Gotabaya Rajapaksa came to power in 2019,Sri Lanka's president pardoned 16 men linked to the Tamil Tiger rebels.
National Geographic, one of the world's most prestigious and well-known mapmakers, has declared the body of water that surrounds Antarctica, and is known as theSouthern Ocean as Earth's fifth ocean.
Insurers are not ready to price the risk of losing Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos or his fellow space travellers as launching one of the richest individuals on earth into orbit has proved a leap too far for them.