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Senior Taliban officials including the group’s top political advisor met with Afghan political figures in Moscow on Tuesday, saying they were committed to peace in Afghanistan. The statement comes as US-led talks appear to have stalled, AFP said. Taliban co-founder and political leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar said the insurgents want an end to 18…

Planned Parenthood has said that Missouri State officials may not renew their license, which could bar the clinic, the last in the state, from performing abortions by the end of the week. If the clinic is forced to stop providing the service, it would be the first time since the 1973 Roe vs Wade Supreme…

Britain’s equality watchdog is launching a formal investigation to determine whether Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party has “discriminated against, harassed or victimized people because they are Jewish.” Labour, Britain’s main opposition party, has promised to co-operate fully with the investigation, the Equality and Human Rights Commission said on Tuesday. “We contacted Labour after receiving a number…

Violent protests targeting a minority community in a predominantly Muslim area have erupted in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province after a Hindu vet was accused of wrapping meds in pages ripped out of a holy book. Footage from the scene showed shops ablaze with furious crowds calling for extrajudicial vengeance. The mob of angry protesters began…

Click:全国楼凤论坛 Whoever wins the bitter trade row between the two biggest world economies, the US or China, the consequences are set to spread far beyond… erasing up to $600 billion off global GDP, according to a Bloomberg forecast. Trade representatives from Washington and Beijing had been soothing the markets as they indicated that they were…

Several Russian media outlets have caused confusion by reporting that the Russian Orthodox Church is opening a new temple in Westeros – not the fantasy continent from ‘Game of Thrones’ but a city in Sweden pronounced the same way. Västerås is a city of some 120,000 people in central Sweden, some 100 kilometers west of…

Russian underdog Vitalia Diatchenko may not have won her French Open 1st round match against US great Serena Williams, but she won widespread attention in the media with a strong showing of her bulging biceps during the match. READ MORE: Serena Williams gets 1st win in ‘zebra’ outfit at French Open despite dropping opening set…

A Swedish court has rejected a request to postpone a hearing on the detention of the WikiLeaks founder. Julian Assange’s lawyers requested the court session be postponed due to their client’s ill health. Swedish prosecutors reopened a rape case against Assange earlier this month after Assange was hauled from London’s Ecuadorian embassy and jailed for…

The Iraqi Kurdish parliament on Tuesday elected Nechirvan Barzani, the nephew and son-in-law of veteran leader Masoud Barzani, as president of the autonomous region. The deputy leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party won 68 votes from the 81 members present in the 111-seat chamber. The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan of late Iraqi president Jalal Talabani,…

A TV mogul wanted in the US on money laundering and bribery charges was a mediator between Washington and Caracas officials, offering them sanctions relief in exchange for turning on the government, a new report says. One of the key figures behind the abortive April 30 uprising intended to oust President Nicolas Maduro in favor…