Swapping Kalashnikovs for Bat and Pads: Afghan Cricket, the Taliban and Peace
The sport is the only one most of the fighters enjoy, commanders say, with matches attracting hundreds of spectators from Taliban-controlled villages when there is no fighting.from Top World News- News18.com https://ift.tt/2YAP9A2
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The 41-year-old comedian Volodymyr Zelensky's political experience has been limited to playing the president in a TV show but he leapfrogged establishment candidates amid public frustration over corruption and a stalling economy.
The United States said that Turkey's decision to buy Russia's S-400 system was incompatible with remaining part of the emblematic US warplane program.
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Last October, Canada became only the second country -- and first G7 economy -- to legalize the recreational use of cannabis.
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An Israeli foreign ministry spokesman said it was the first time a sitting head of state had visited there with an Israeli prime minister.
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'We obey the Word,' priests said in a Facebook post showing photographs of the public book burning and quoting Biblical passages from the book of Deuteronomy in the Old Testament.
China last week defended its repeated attempts to block the listing of Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Azhar as a global terrorist and refuted the US allegation that Beijing's action amounted to protecting violent Islamic groups from sanctions.
Boeing's top-selling MAX has been grounded globally since last month after two fatal crashes involving the same model in five months, the first in Indonesia in October and another on March 10 in Ethiopia.
The Argentine pontiff last week issued stringent child abuse legislation for Vatican City employees as part of the Church's bid to address a wave of sex abuse allegations against priests.
Made up of 600 metres (1,980 feet) of tunnels that once teemed with military life, the secret Gjader air base is now a depot for dozens of hulking communist-era MiG jets collecting dust in the darkness.
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In a move that would be unthinkable in the United States, one of New Zealand's largest gun retailers, Hunting & Fishing, voluntarily stopped selling MSSAs and halted online firearms sales.
With less than two weeks to go until the day Britain risks crashing out of the European Union, MPs will hold a series of votes to try and find a majority-backed plan to end the current crisis.
Natalia Fileva, a co-owner of private Russian airline S7, died in the accident, the company said in a statement.
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NASA head Jim Bridenstine said the anti-satellite test created 400 pieces of space debris, some as big as 10 cm, increasing risk of collision with the International Space Station.
Facebook said it had removed 12 accounts linked to an Indian company "associated with" a mobile app promoted by the BJP.
Xiaomi’s product festival will offer discounts on some of its most popular products, such as the Redmi Note 7 Pro, Mi TVs and more.
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Looking into upcoming Lok Sabha Elections, Facebook has launched a new Candidate Connect feature that allows the Lok Sabha candidates to share 20-second-long videos with their messages with the Facebook users in India.
The new Xiaomi patent offers the similar layout of a bottom-placed front camera with the Mi MIX but may come with a notch this time.
The Galaxy S10 5G comes with 6.7-inch "Dynamic AMOLED" display with edge-to-edge screen and 4,500mAh battery.
The individuals used fake accounts to operate military fan Pages, general Pakistani interest Pages, Kashmir community Pages and hobby and news Pages.
Xiaomi has teased images of the two cookers which are already selling in China for a while now.
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Reliance Jio GigaFiber has dominated the Netflix ISP Speed Index chart with speeds consistently above 3.41 Mbps.
While the features have not to be enabled for users yet, the latest beta build of WhatsApp has now started showing the number of times a message has been forwarded.
The Nokia X71 has made an appearance on Geekbench, giving us a hint of what we can expect when the phone goes official.
The refreshed "Surface Book 2" model comes with 8GB RAM and 256GB internal storage.
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