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ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN - Top leaders in Afghanistan announced Thursday that U.S.-backed peace talks with the Taliban insurgency will start next week to negotiate a political settlement to the country’s long conflict. The proposed dialogue stems from a landmark pact the United States sealed with the Taliban in February to ...

KABUL, AfghanistanThe long-awaited intra-Afghan talks with the Taliban will begin next week, Afghanistan’s top peace negotiator announced on Thursday.“People are hopeful for peace. People are ready for tough decisions for the peace, but also have concerns,” Abdullah Abdullah, chairman of the Afghan government’s High Council for National Reconciliation, ...

KABUL, AfghanistanThe long-awaited intra-Afghan talks with the Taliban will begin next week, Afghanistan’s top peace negotiator announced on Thursday.“People are hopeful for peace. People are ready for tough decisions for the peace, but also have concerns,” Abdullah Abdullah, chairman of the Afghan government’s High Council for National Reconciliation, ...

Hello and welcome to Al Jazeera's continuing coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. I'm Ted Regencia in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Australia's second-most populous state of Victoria has reported the lowest daily rise in new infections in seven weeks.  The use of plasma treatment has been given the greenlight by the ...

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden joins hands with his running mate, US Sen. Kamala Harris, after the Democratic National Convention on Thursday, August 20. They are joined on stage by Biden's wife, Jill, and Harris' husband, Douglas Emhoff. Andrew Harnik/APSteve Bannon, President Donald Trump's former campaign adviser, leaves a ...

Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, calls US Sen. Kamala Harris from his Delaware home to inform her that she was his choice for vice president on Tuesday, August 11. She is the first Black woman and the first person of Indian descent to be tapped for a major ...