US drug maker Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine is likely to get authorisation for providing vaccines to children aged between 5 to 12 by October, according to Scott Gottlieb, former head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)....
Twelve of the 13 US service members killed in the August 26 Kabul airport bombing were "9/11 babies", according to media reports....
US President Joe Biden attended a solemn ceremony at a base in his home state of Delaware where the remains of 13 troops killed in the August 26 Kabul bombings returned to American soil. ...
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held a phone conversation with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, exchanging views on the situation in Afghanistan and Beijing-Washington ties....
Dangerous high-end category 4 Hurricane Ida has made landfall with maximum sustained winds of about 240 km per hour just west of Grand Isle, Louisiana, bringing life-threatening storm surge, catastrophic winds and massive flooding. ...
The global coronavirus caseload has topped 216.3 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.50 million and vaccinations soared to over 5.19 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University. ...
More than 250 Afghans belonging to a minority communities of Sikh and Hindu, who have connections in India, have been holed up in a Sikh shrine just seven km from the international airport in Kabul and are desperately awaiting their evacuation to a Western nation....
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has estimated that some 500,000 Afghans are likely to leave the war-torn country in the next four months in the wake of the Taliban takeover....
People across the world took to the streets on Saturday to call for support for Afghans as the evacuation process nears the end....
Just days after the deadly bombings in Kabul that killed nearly 200 people, including 13 members of the American military, US President Joe Biden said his military commanders informed him that another attack in Afghanistan is "highly likely in the next 24-36 hours" ....
