Turkish soldiers came to the rescue on Friday when a baby barely two months old got separated from her mother during the chaos at the International Airport in the Afghan capital Kabul. In the huge crowd around Kabul airport, formed by thousands of Afghan inhabitants trying to escape the city of Kabul following the taliban’s seizure of power, several people, …

Facebook offers users in Afghanistan the opportunity to block their profile on the social network at the touch of a button starting Thursday, now that the Taliban have seized power in the country. Facebook director Nathaniel Gleicher writes on Twitter on Thursday that it is also no longer possible to search the friends list of Facebook users currently in Afghanistan. …

Kenes Rakishev, a prominent and successful entrepreneur from Kazakhstan gave start to a highly popular “Build Your Business” contest. This annual contest, curated by Kenes Rakishev, Aselle Tasmagambetova, other well-known Kazakhstani entrepreneurs and socialites, is held since 2013. It plays an important role in promoting entrepreneurship among young Kazakhstanis. The ease of entrance and substantial prizes attract those who want …

French president Emmanuel Macron called a national security meeting on Thursday morning because of the Pegasus spy software scandal. A government spokesman told the French press agency AFP. The Israeli software, originally intended ‘to track terrorists’, is said to have been used to spy on journalists, activists and lawyers. This was shown by research by a number of international media …

An American judge holds the government largely responsible for the massacre at a church in Texas in 2017. 26 people were killed and 22 were injured. The gunman Devin Patrick Kelley should never have bought the guns he used for the shooting. The former US Air Force military had a history of domestic violence. A previous court-martial conviction was never …

In Hong Kong, on Friday morning, a raid took place on copies of the pro-democratic newspaper Apple Daily. This was after police raided the newsroom the day before, arresting five newspaper executives. At many kiosks in the city, Hong Kong people line up for the newspaper, which has been published today in a considerably larger edition. 500 thousand copies were …

This week, Joe Biden speaks with European leaders for the first time as US president. How is the baptism of fire going in Europe for Biden, and is he ready for the meeting with the Russian president Vladimir Putin on Wednesday? Biden’s European Tour is primarily a diplomatic attempt to strengthen ties with his European allies, after the relationship under …

American and British diplomats have called on the Houthi rebels in Yemen to stop a violent offensive in the north of the country. They make that call after a rocket attack on a gas station on Saturday that killed at least 17 people and injured five. According to the Yemeni government, the rocket was fired by the Houthis. The attack …

“Don’t you forget to vote for me?” CDU’er Deftlef Gürth distributes flyers, pens and bottles of water at the weekly market in Aschersleben, East Germany. Every now and then someone comes and talks, often Gürth knows the people by name. That is not surprising, because he has been sitting for the Christian Democrats in the Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt for more …

US president Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will have their first face-to-face meeting in Switzerland on 16 June. The scene is Geneva. The White House and the Kremlin announced that on Tuesday. Earlier, CNN reported the US-Russia summit next month on the basis of two anonymous officials. Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov stated that there is a need …