KABUL( REUTERS)-Taleban fighters tightened their control of captured territory in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday( Aug 10) as residents hid in their homes and a pro-government commander vowed to fight to the death to defend Mazar-i-Sharif, the biggest city in the north. President Ashraf Ghani called on regional strongmen to support his embattled government after a stunning string of Taleban gainsas US-led foreign forces pull out, while a UN official said the gains made in human rights over the p

Central government officials are now hopeful the erasure of retrospective tax law will allow entry

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Indigenous language, endangered after a long history of erasure.... Now phone users will be able to

Messages by Taliban officials that their government was eager to engage with the world were ignored.... Taliban officials have won temporary reprieves from travel bans.... There has even been talk of removing the group from international terrorist lists. The diplomatic activity reflects a subtle but significant shift toward normalizing the Taliban as political leaders and away from treating them as insurgents....

The video that set off the storm was not much to look at.... A circle of 12 men draped in bright garlands were reading aloud solemn statements during a ceremony to form a new local government in a deeply rural corner of India. The scandal was that six of those elected to lead the village had been women.... There is a well-known term in Hindi, pradhan pati, for this “ boss husband ” role. Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like....

KAMPALA( Reuters)-Cleopatra Kambugu is a molecular biologist, the star of a Netflix documentary and a prominent social campaigner in Uganda. She was also assigned male at birth and became one of the first of a small number of Ugandans to have her gender identity officially changed.... Colonial-era laws banning gay sex remain and gay people have faced arrest, ostracism and violence. Fridah Mutesi, a lawyer who heads a firm that defends the rights of sexual minorities, said transgender people hav