INTERNATIONAL

On Wednesday, the interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph has said that the President of Haiti was shot dead in his private residence. In a statement released today, Joseph said that a group of unidentified individuals attacked the private resident of President Jovenel Moise overnight and shot him dead. It has been reported that Moise's wife was wounded in the attack. Details on the incident are yet awaited

In a latest interview conducted by CNN-News 18, with a member of the Taliban negotiating team and the spokesman of the political office of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), Mohammad Suhail Shaheen gave an outlook for Afghanistan after the US exit, peace and relations with India and Pakistan. Shaheen when asked that how genuine was Taliban's bid to engage the international community, responded, "As per our policy, we don’t target embassies, consulates and NGOs. We only attack military forces of the Kabul administration that are engaged in fighting with us. We want to have relations with the international community and the world." He said that they were an Islamic liberation force that fought against the occupation for the last 20 years to gain independence. And that it is thei...

The Afghan Forces have started a major offensive against Taliban in Afghanistan, in which more than 261 Taliban Militants have been killed. On Tuesday, Tolo News reported that, Afghan forces pushed back a major attack by the Taliban on Hazrat Sultan district in the Central province of Samangan on Monday evening. The clashes continued for many hours and ended shortly after midnight. Sixteen Taliban Militants were killed during these clashes. Taliban on Monday night claimed that they captured Hazrat Sultan district. The group has not commented on their casualties in the clashes. Earlier 35 militants were killed following a pre-dawn airstrike in surrounding areas of Alishing district of Laghman province, the Ministry said in a statement. In Logar province, 26 militants were killed...

Drugmaker Morepen Laboratories has begun production of Sputnik V, the Russian vaccine against coronavirus in India. The vaccine is being manufactured at Morepen Laboratories' plant in Himachal Pradesh, says Russia's sovereign wealth fund RDIF. The RDIF has said that the first batch will be shipped to Gamaleya Center in Russia for quality control. RDIF and Morepen Laboratories had entered into a cooperation agreement for the manufacture of Sputnik V in June 2021.

On Monday, the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson addressed a press conference and said that all Legal Coronavirus restrictions including mask-wearing, social distancing, and nightclub closures will end by July 19. This would be Step 4 of the government's plan of easing the lockdown in the country. He said that face masks will not be legally required and that the distancing rules will be scrapped at the final stage of England's Covid lockdown roadmap. He lauded the success of the vaccine rollout in weakening the link between Covid-19 cases and deaths and said it was due to this reason that the restrictions are coming to an end. Another rule, the rule of six inside private homes will be removed and work-from-home guidance abolished as 16 months of on-off restrictions on daily...

The Taliban now control roughly a third of all 421 districts and district centres in Afghanistan. The Taliban’s march through Northern Afghanistan gained momentum overnight with the capture of several districts from fleeing Afghan forces, several hundred of whom fled across the border into Tajikistan, officials said Sunday. More than 300 Afghan military personnel crossed from Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province as Taliban fighters advanced toward the border, Tajikistan’s State Committee for National Security said in a statement. The Afghan troops crossed over at about 6:30 p.m. local time Saturday “Guided by the principles of humanism and good neighbourliness,” the Tajik authorities allowed the retreating Afghan National Defense and Security Forces to cross into Tajikistan, said the...

The Taliban on Monday morning claimed the control over several areas, including the former stronghold of Kandahar. 'Geo News' in its report quoting officials has said that the Taliban have captured Panjwai district after a fierce clash with the security forces of Afghanistan. Panjwai district was captured two days after US and NATO forces evacuated their main Bagram Air Base near Kabul. It is the same district from where America and NATO campaigned against the Taliban and its allies for two decades. The Taliban claims that it has taken control of a third of the 421 districts. Mohib-ul-Rahman, a member of the organization's provincial council, has said that several districts of Badakhshan in the northeast have been abandoned by Afghan security forces without a fight. The Taliban sp...

Several places in Canada have been ordered to evacuate as western Canada struggles with wildfires as a result of the record-breaking heat wave. As per the latest reports that have emerged, Lightning strikes have continued to spark dozens more wildfires in the country. It has been reported that the Emergency services are trying to control more than 170 fires across British Columbia province. Along with the evacuation orders, in several areas, military teams are due to arrive in the coming weeks. The people from Lytton fled the village, as it recorded highest ever temperature in Canada, i.e., 49.6° C (121.3 F), and was destroyed by the fire on Tuesday. Earlier this week, people had to flee the village of Lytton. Although the temperatures have been easing in coastal areas of Canad...

Insha Mushtaq Earlier this week, on July 14, 160 new undocumented graves were discovered in Canada's British Columbia province. The Penelakut Tribe announced that it discovered more than 160 "undocumented and unmarked' graves in the province's Southern Gulf Islands, which was once home to the Kuper Island Residential School. "It is impossible to get over acts of genocide and human rights violations. Healing is an ongoing process, and sometimes it goes well, and sometimes we lose more people because the burden is too great. We are at another point in time where we must face the trauma because of these acts of genocide. Each time we do, it is possible to heal a little more," the Penelakut Tribe said in a statement. On Wednesday, June 30, a day before Canada Day, for the third time i...

A fire erupted in the Ocean of the Gulf of Mexico (Yucatan Peninsula) after a gas leak from an underwater pipeline sparked a blaze, according to Mexico’s state-owned Pemex petrol company. In a video footage of the fire that went viral on 2 July, bright orange flames can be seen appearing to boil the ocean’s surface before the fire was extinguished roughly 150 yards from a drilling platform in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, the company reported. Pemex reported a leak at 5:15 a.m. on Friday, in the submarine pipeline near its Ku-Maloob-Zaap’s Ku-C satellite platform in the Campeche Sound. The state oil company then began to “close the interconnection valves in the pipeline, extinguishing the fire and the gas emanation” to control the leak by 10:45 a.m., more than five hours later. ...