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Taliban urged to allow fleeing Afghans safe passage

Taliban fighters manned checkpoints around Kabul's airport on Thursday as concerns built they were blocking Afghans from reaching evacuation flights, with the United States...

Images of women vandalised as Kabul faces up to Taliban rule

Images of women have been covered up or vandalised on storefronts around Kabul, a sign of the Afghan capital's rapidly changing face in the...

How the scramble to leave Afghanistan is unfolding

With the Taliban returning to power in Afghanistan, foreign nations are scrambling to get their citizens and Afghans who worked with them out of...

Biden says US troops could stay longer in Kabul to rescue last Americans

President Joe Biden said Wednesday that US troops won't leave any Americans behind in Afghanistan, even if it means staying in Taliban-controlled Kabul for...

Former Afghan president Ghani supports talks, says wants to return

Former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani said Wednesday he supports talks between the Taliban and top former officials, and denied allegations that he transferred large...

Crisis-hit city of Cali emblematic of Colombian anger

Poverty, long-simmering racial tension, drug trafficking and a recent outbreak of violent anti-government protest: the Colombian city of Cali has come to encapsulate all...

Europe oil firms post huge profits as crude rallies

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Guterres and Ban Ki-moon call for ASEAN to act on Myanmar

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and his predecessor Ban Ki-moon on Monday urged governments in southeast Asia to push to end the crisis in Myanmar,...

IMF to launch talks on new Argentina loan in November

The IMF said Monday it will start talks with the government of crisis-ravaged Argentina on a new rescue package in mid-November. A team from the...

Zimbabwe government denies crisis as inflation jumps to 840 percent

Zimbabwe's annual inflation rate soared to almost 840 percent in July, the statistics agency said Saturday, adding to the country's desperate economic woes even...

Angeles pushes urban gardening

Angeles City—Amid the COVID-19 crisis, Angeles City Mayor Carmelo “Pogi” Lazatin has launched the “Luntian sa Barangay Lingap Project,” an initiative for food sustainability. “We...

How famous philanthropists support the fight against COVID-19

2020, so far, has proven to be quite a challenging year for many of us. It’s be set with natural calamities that have been...

Some feel-good stories

"Here are stories that warm the heart."   Heartwarming are incidents reported in media about better-to-do families, lower middle class yet, who ask that the food...

Risa, Villar score NFA officials

AKBAYAN Senator Risa Hontiveros said the Duterte administration’s “policy paralysis” resulted in a rice crisis as Senator Cynthia Villar scored National Food Authority’s officials...
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