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Taliban pushes for ‘Islamic system’ for Afghan peace, women’s rights

Group co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar says issues to be resolved through mutual understanding, urges youth against leaving country

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1 dead, 2 injured as truck ploughs into Florida Pride parade

Pickup driver now in custody, unclear if incident a deliberate assault

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Belgium bars British travellers to halt Covid-19 variant’s spread

Delta variant has already forced London to delay lifting pandemic restrictions

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Absolutely not, says Pakistani PM of US counterterrorism bases

Imran Khan firm against allowing any sort of American CIA action from Islamabad into Afghanistan

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Brazil becomes second nation to see half-million lives lost to Covid-19

2,301 deaths in past 24 hours take overall fatalities to 500,800

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5 die in Belgium under-construction school collapse

Last 2 bodies pulled out of rubble yesterday afternoon

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Thailand makes 1.2-tonne drug bust in mangrove forest

Heroin, meth worth 1 billion baht left by traffickers to be picked up by another group for delivery

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Iran elects hardliner as president, rivals concede

Ebrahim Raisi already has 62% of votes so far, says state television as official count continues

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Pressure mounts on Pornhub as 34 women pursue ‘case about rape’

Parent company MindGeek under fire for claims of running a ‘criminal enterprise’ that capitalises on non-consensual sexual content

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Anti-coup marchers wear flowers in their hair on Suu Kyi’s birthday

Not all demonstrators full of praise for ousted civilian leader, pointing to her defence of military over Rohingya ‘genocide’

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Hong Kong pro-democracy paper execs denied bail under security law

Apple Daily chief editor Ryan Law, CEO Cheung Kim-hung accused of colluding with foreign forces to undermine China’s national security

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US Supreme Court tosses slavery case against Cargill, Nestle USA

Justices decide companies’ alleged conduct towards aiding, abetting forced labour occurred in Ivory Coast, thus not under Washington’s jurisdiction

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UN calls on member states to end flow of arms into coup-hit Myanmar

Non-binding resolution also demands that junta ‘immediately stop all violence against peaceful demonstrators’