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Pakistan denied any deal with the US to use its airspace to attack Afghanistan

Pakistan Denies Availing Airspace for US to Attack Afghanistan

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Gunmen Attack Nigerian Prison Releasing Hundreds of Inmates

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Israeli Criminalization of Palestinian Civil Groups slammed

Amnesty International, HRW Slam Israeli Criminalization of Palestinian Civil Groups

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Libya Discovers New Mass Grave in Tarhuna

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China to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games

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The "Pandora Papers" investigation involving some 600 journalists from media including The Washington Post, the BBC and The Guardian is based on a leak of some 11.9 million documents from 14 financial services companies around the world.

A street vendor walk past a barricade of burning tires during a demonstration against high prices and fuel shortages in Port-au-Prince, on October 21, 2021. On Thursday, near one barricade of flaming tires, protestors accused authorities of favoring fuel importers to the detriment of renewable energy development. (Photo by Ricardo ARDUENGO / AFP)

Haitians Protest Fuel Prices Hike and Shortage

Blazing barricades burn after being set on fire by groups of motorcycle taxi drivers in Port-au-Prince, on October 21, 2021, to protest against fuel shortages. (Photo by Richard PIERRIN / AFP)

A United Nations vehicle drives past a barricade of burning tires during a demonstration against high prices and fuel shortages in Port-au-Prince, on October 21, 2021. On Thursday, near one barricade of flaming tires, protestors accused authorities of favoring fuel importers to the detriment of renewable energy development. (Photo by Ricardo ARDUENGO / AFP)

On Thursday, near one barricade of flaming tires, protestors accused authorities of favoring fuel importers to the detriment of renewable energy development. (Photo by Ricardo ARDUENGO / AFP)

People walk on the sidewalk of an empty but otherwise busy street in Port-au-Prince on October 21, 2021. On Thursday, near one barricade of flaming tires, protestors accused authorities of favoring fuel importers to the detriment of renewable energy development. (Photo by Ricardo ARDUENGO / AFP)

A man on a motorcycle looking for fuel waves an empty plascic container in Port-au-Prince, on October 21, 2021. On Thursday, near one barricade of flaming tires, protestors accused authorities of favoring fuel importers to the detriment of renewable energy development. (Photo by Ricardo ARDUENGO / AFP)

Blazing barricades burn after being set on fire by groups of motorcycle taxi drivers in Port-au-Prince, on October 21, 2021, to protest against fuel shortages. (Photo by Richard PIERRIN / AFP)

Participants take part in an event where they play the games of Netflix smash hit "Squid Game" at the Korean Cultural Centre in Abu Dhabi, on October 12, 2021. A dystopian vision of a polarised society, "Squid Game" blends a tight plot, social allegory and uncompromising violence to create the latest South Korean cultural phenomenon to go global. (Photo by Giuseppe CACACE / AFP)

A dystopian vision of a polarised society, "Squid Game" blends a tight plot, social allegory and uncompromising violence to create the latest South Korean cultural phenomenon to go global. (Photo by Giuseppe CACACE / AFP)

street vendor Lim Chang-joo stamps an umbrella shape onto a dalgona, a crisp sugar candy featured in the Netflix smash hit series Squid Game, for which he and his wife Jung Jung-soon were hired to be on set to make during production. (Photo by Yelim LEE / AFP)

Simple, sweet, and fictionally fatal: the stallholder who makes the traditional South Korean children's treat featured in global cultural phenomenon Squid Game -- and once associated with post-war poverty -- has hit a real-life jackpot. (Photo by Yelim LEE / AFP)

This photo taken on October 12, 2021 shows a customer cutting a dalgona, a crisp sugar candy featured in the Netflix series Squid Game, in Shanghai. AFP/File

This photo taken on October 12, 2021 shows customers taking photos of a dalgona, a crisp sugar candy featured in the Netflix series Squid Game, in Shanghai. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP)

Cosplayers dressed as Squid Game and Sailor Moon pose during Day 3 of New York Comic Con 2021 at Jacob Javits Center on October 09, 2021 in New York City. Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for ReedPop/AFP

Participants take part in an event where they play the games of Netflix smash hit "Squid Game" at the Korean Cultural Centre in Abu Dhabi, on October 12, 2021. A dystopian vision of a polarised society, "Squid Game" blends a tight plot, social allegory and uncompromising violence to create the latest South Korean cultural phenomenon to go global. (Photo by Giuseppe CACACE / AFP)

A man dips his finger in ink after voting at a polling station in Iraq's capital Baghdad during the early parliamentary elections on October 10, 2021. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)

Iraqis on October 10 voted in a parliamentary election a year early as a concession to an anti-government protest movement but seen as unlikely to deliver major change to the war-scarred country. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)

Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi's future hangs in the balance, with few observers willing to predict who will come out on top after the usual political haggling between factions that follow Iraqi elections. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)

A voter scans his fingerprint a scanner while registering his vote at a polling station in the southern city of Nasiriyah in Iraq's Dhi Qar province, during the early parliamentary elections on October 10, 2021. (Photo by Asaad NIAZI / AFP)

An Iraqi election official holds a printout of the electronic count of votes at a polling station in the northeastern city of Sulaymaniyah in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region during the early parliamentary elections on October 10, 2021. (Photo by Shwan MOHAMMED / AFP)

Supporters of Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ride in vehicles while celebrating in the central shrine city of Najaf after the closure of polls during the early parliamentary elections on October 10, 2021. (Photo by Ali NAJAFI / AFP)

Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi's future hangs in the balance, with few observers willing to predict who will come out on top after the usual political haggling between factions that follow Iraqi elections. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)

Supporters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) celebrate with the KDP party flags during Iraq's parliamentary election in Arbil, the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region, on October 10, 2021. Preliminary turnout figures showed many citizens boycotted Iraq's parliamentary election, held a year early to appease protestors, in an oil-rich country riddled by corruption and beholden to armed factions. (Photo by SAFIN HAMED / AFP)

Pro-choice and Anti-abortion Activists Protest in the US

In this file photo taken on October 2, 2021 Protesters take part in the Women's March and Rally for Abortion Justice at the State Capitol in Austin, Texas. A US federal judge on October 6, 2021 temporarily blocked a controversial law that bans most abortions in the state of Texas. (Photo by Sergio FLORES / AFP)

An anti-abortion activist prays near the Supreme Court on October 04, 2021 in Washington, DC. The Supreme Court's new term, which started today is expected to take up contentious issues including an abortion rights case that is a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/AFP

A pro-choice activist is arrested during a demonstration outside of the Supreme Court on October 04, 2021 in Washington, DC. The Supreme Court's new term, which started today is expected to take up contentious issues including an abortion rights case that is a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/AFP

Pro-choice and anti-abortion activists protest alongside each other during a demonstration outside of the Supreme Court on October 04, 2021 in Washington, DC. The Supreme Court's new term, which started today is expected to take up contentious issues including an abortion rights case that is a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/AFP

An anti-abortion activist takes part in a demonstration outside of the Supreme Court on October 04, 2021 in Washington, DC. The Supreme Court's new term, which started today is expected to take up contentious issues including an abortion rights case that is a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/AFP

An Anti-abortion activist holds a petition to end abortion during a demonstration outside of the Supreme Court on October 04, 2021 in Washington, DC. The Supreme Court's new term, which started today is expected to take up contentious issues including an abortion rights case that is a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/AFP

Pro-choice and anti-abortion activists protest alongside each other during a demonstration outside of the Supreme Court on October 04, 2021 in Washington, DC. The Supreme Court's new term, which started today is expected to take up contentious issues including an abortion rights case that is a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/AFP

A pro-choice activist is arrested during a demonstration outside of the Supreme Court on October 04, 2021 in Washington, DC. The Supreme Court's new term, which started today is expected to take up contentious issues including an abortion rights case that is a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/AFP

In this picture taken on October 3, 2021, a Hazara ethnic girl stands near a cliff pockmarked by caves where people still live as they did centuries ago in Bamiyan. (Photo by BULENT KILIC / AFP)

In this picture taken on October 3, 2021, Hazara ethnic children stand on a cliff pockmarked by caves where people still live as they did centuries ago in Bamiyan. (Photo by BULENT KILIC / AFP)

In this picture taken on October 3, 2021, Hazara ethnic people stand on a cliff pockmarked by caves where people still live as they did centuries ago in Bamiyan. (Photo by BULENT KILIC / AFP)

In this picture taken on October 3, 2021, Hazara ethnic children stand in their cave on a cliff pockmarked by caves where people still live as they did centuries ago in Bamiyan. (Photo by Bulent KILIC / AFP)

In this picture taken on October 3, 2021, a Hazara ethnic woman with a baby walks in front of her cave on a cliff pockmarked by caves where people still live as they did centuries ago in Bamiyan. (Photo by Bulent KILIC / AFP)

In this picture taken on October 3, 2021, children walk to a river from their village near the cliffs pockmarked by caves where people still live as they did centuries ago in Bamiyan. (Photo by Bulent KILIC / AFP)

In this picture taken on October 3, 2021, Hazara ethnic women walk with their laundry to their village near the cliffs pockmarked by caves where people still live as they did centuries ago in Bamiyan. (Photo by Bulent KILIC / AFP)

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Blazing barricades burn after being set on fire by groups of motorcycle taxi drivers in Port-au-Prince, on October 21, 2021, to protest against fuel shortages. (Photo by Richard PIERRIN / AFP)

On Thursday, near one barricade of flaming tires, protestors accused authorities of favoring fuel importers to the detriment of renewable energy development. (Photo by Ricardo ARDUENGO / AFP)

People walk on the sidewalk of an empty but otherwise busy street in Port-au-Prince on October 21, 2021. On Thursday, near one barricade of flaming tires, protestors accused authorities of favoring fuel importers to the detriment of renewable energy development. (Photo by Ricardo ARDUENGO / AFP)

Blazing barricades burn after being set on fire by groups of motorcycle taxi drivers in Port-au-Prince, on October 21, 2021, to protest against fuel shortages. (Photo by Richard PIERRIN / AFP)

Blazing barricades burn after being set on fire by groups of motorcycle taxi drivers in Port-au-Prince, on October 21, 2021, to protest against fuel shortages. (Photo by Richard PIERRIN / AFP)

A dystopian vision of a polarised society, "Squid Game" blends a tight plot, social allegory and uncompromising violence to create the latest South Korean cultural phenomenon to go global. (Photo by Giuseppe CACACE / AFP)

street vendor Lim Chang-joo stamps an umbrella shape onto a dalgona, a crisp sugar candy featured in the Netflix smash hit series Squid Game, for which he and his wife Jung Jung-soon were hired to be on set to make during production. (Photo by Yelim LEE / AFP)

Simple, sweet, and fictionally fatal: the stallholder who makes the traditional South Korean children's treat featured in global cultural phenomenon Squid Game -- and once associated with post-war poverty -- has hit a real-life jackpot. (Photo by Yelim LEE / AFP)

This photo taken on October 12, 2021 shows a customer cutting a dalgona, a crisp sugar candy featured in the Netflix series Squid Game, in Shanghai. AFP/File

This photo taken on October 12, 2021 shows customers taking photos of a dalgona, a crisp sugar candy featured in the Netflix series Squid Game, in Shanghai. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP)

Cosplayers dressed as Squid Game and Sailor Moon pose during Day 3 of New York Comic Con 2021 at Jacob Javits Center on October 09, 2021 in New York City. Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for ReedPop/AFP

A man dips his finger in ink after voting at a polling station in Iraq's capital Baghdad during the early parliamentary elections on October 10, 2021. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)

Iraqis on October 10 voted in a parliamentary election a year early as a concession to an anti-government protest movement but seen as unlikely to deliver major change to the war-scarred country. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)

Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi's future hangs in the balance, with few observers willing to predict who will come out on top after the usual political haggling between factions that follow Iraqi elections. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)

A voter scans his fingerprint a scanner while registering his vote at a polling station in the southern city of Nasiriyah in Iraq's Dhi Qar province, during the early parliamentary elections on October 10, 2021. (Photo by Asaad NIAZI / AFP)

An Iraqi election official holds a printout of the electronic count of votes at a polling station in the northeastern city of Sulaymaniyah in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region during the early parliamentary elections on October 10, 2021. (Photo by Shwan MOHAMMED / AFP)

Supporters of Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ride in vehicles while celebrating in the central shrine city of Najaf after the closure of polls during the early parliamentary elections on October 10, 2021. (Photo by Ali NAJAFI / AFP)

Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi's future hangs in the balance, with few observers willing to predict who will come out on top after the usual political haggling between factions that follow Iraqi elections. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)

An anti-abortion activist prays near the Supreme Court on October 04, 2021 in Washington, DC. The Supreme Court's new term, which started today is expected to take up contentious issues including an abortion rights case that is a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/AFP

In this picture taken on October 3, 2021, a Hazara ethnic girl stands near a cliff pockmarked by caves where people still live as they did centuries ago in Bamiyan. (Photo by BULENT KILIC / AFP)

In this picture taken on October 3, 2021, Hazara ethnic children stand on a cliff pockmarked by caves where people still live as they did centuries ago in Bamiyan. (Photo by BULENT KILIC / AFP)

In this picture taken on October 3, 2021, Hazara ethnic people stand on a cliff pockmarked by caves where people still live as they did centuries ago in Bamiyan. (Photo by BULENT KILIC / AFP)

In this picture taken on October 3, 2021, Hazara ethnic children stand in their cave on a cliff pockmarked by caves where people still live as they did centuries ago in Bamiyan. (Photo by Bulent KILIC / AFP)

In this picture taken on October 3, 2021, a Hazara ethnic woman with a baby walks in front of her cave on a cliff pockmarked by caves where people still live as they did centuries ago in Bamiyan. (Photo by Bulent KILIC / AFP)

In this picture taken on October 3, 2021, children walk to a river from their village near the cliffs pockmarked by caves where people still live as they did centuries ago in Bamiyan. (Photo by Bulent KILIC / AFP)

In this picture taken on October 3, 2021, Hazara ethnic women walk with their laundry to their village near the cliffs pockmarked by caves where people still live as they did centuries ago in Bamiyan. (Photo by Bulent KILIC / AFP)

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