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Afghans dying in wait outside Kabul airport: Report

Footage from Britain’s Sky News shows soldiers covering three bodies in white tarpaulins

Kabul airlift stumbles as security worsens, bottlenecks hit

US urges citizens in Afghanistan to avoid going to the Kabul airport due to security threats.

India: Former Uttar Pradesh CM Kalyan Singh passes away

Singh was chief minister of Uttar Pradesh twice.

EU chief appeals to members take in Afghan refugees

EU chief promises financial support from Brussels.

Taliban turn back Afghan govt employees returning to work

Only a few private telecommunication companies have been allowed to operate in the past few days.

Children in India, Pakistan at high risk of climate crisis impacts

Unicef report says 1 billion children live in 33 countries classified as 'extremely high-risk'

Sri Lanka bans ‘drunk driving’ of elephants in new protection law

Many rich Sri Lankans keep elephants as pets to show off their wealth.

Taliban official says no foreigners kidnapped, but some being queried

Western nations have struggled to ramp up the pace of evacuations amid chaos in the country.

Taliban leader Baradar in Kabul for talks to set up govt

The group has given few details of who it would include though.

Angelina Jolie joins Instagram to fight for Afghanistan

Her post has already racked up over 1.5 million likes in the hours since it was published yesterday.