Top 10 Positive News Stories of 2023: Hopeful Approach for the Future

Top 10 Positive News Stories of 2023: Hopeful Approach for the Future

More than 21,000 Palestinians have died in Gaza since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7 and the Israeli Government of Benjamin Netanyahu responded with a daily bombing campaign against the Strip. The war in Ukraine is entrenched and is advancing inexorably towards its second anniversary. In Sudan, nearly seven million people have been forced to … Read more

Heightened Security Measures at Cologne Cathedral Due to Possible Terrorist Threat: ISPK Group Investigated

Heightened Security Measures at Cologne Cathedral Due to Possible Terrorist Threat: ISPK Group Investigated

Security checks at the entrance, police vehicles in front of the cathedral: Shortly before the Christmas services, the police significantly increased security measures at Cologne Cathedral. The security authorities had received information about a possible attack plan by an Islamist group on the cathedral and a church in Vienna. Police officers checked visitors to the … Read more

Dutch soldiers sentenced for shooting incident in Afghanistan

Dutch soldiers sentenced for shooting incident in Afghanistan

ANP Archive photo of practicing soldiers NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 18:11 Three Dutch soldiers have been sentenced to community service for involvement in a shooting incident while deployed in Afghanistan. A fellow soldier lost his arm as a result of “a series of mistakes”, according to the military chamber of the court in Arnhem. In 2021, the … Read more

Life in Kabul under the Taliban: Improvements and Challenges

Life in Kabul under the Taliban: Improvements and Challenges

Jakarta – The atmosphere on the streets of the Afghan capital has changed since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, cleaner and safer, but also bleaker. Under the leadership of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Kabul City government launched an ambitious program to improve life in this city of seven million people. This was … Read more

Top 10 Most Difficult Countries to Visit and Obtain a Visa in 2023

Top 10 Most Difficult Countries to Visit and Obtain a Visa in 2023

Jakarta – The end of COVID-19 has made tourists travel abroad more intensively. However, it turns out that there are 10 countries that will be the most difficult to visit in 2023. To be able to travel abroad, travelers need a passport. Apart from that, a number of countries also implement visa policies as a … Read more

Afghans Deported from Pakistan – The Story of Mohammad Isa and His Struggle

Afghans Deported from Pakistan – The Story of Mohammad Isa and His Struggle

NOSMohammad Isa and his family NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 22:00 Aletta Andrew South Asia correspondent Aletta Andrew South Asia correspondent A major exodus has been going on in Pakistan for weeks. An estimated 1.7 million Afghans without valid residence papers are being deported from the country. If they do not leave voluntarily, they are arrested and deported. … Read more

Taliban appearance in Cologne: “Completely unacceptable” – Faeser expects clarification – WELT

Taliban appearance in Cologne: “Completely unacceptable” – Faeser expects clarification – WELT

Deutschland “Completely unacceptable” Faeser expects clarification after Taliban appearance in Cologne Stand: 18.11.2023 | Reading time: 3 minutes Afghan Taliban official appears in a Cologne mosque An Afghan Taliban official appeared in a Ditib mosque in Cologne-Chorweiler. Ditib distanced himself from the appearance. The “Afghan Cultural Association Cologne Meschenich” organized a political event “contrary to … Read more

Minister Kuipers apologizes for photo with Taliban: ‘Didn’t know who he was’ | Politics

Minister Kuipers apologizes for photo with Taliban: ‘Didn’t know who he was’ |  Politics

Outgoing minister Ernst Kuipers has apologized for a photo with a Taliban representative. “I didn’t know who this person was at the time,” he wrote X. “This was a mistake, it absolutely should not have happened and I regret it.” The photo of the Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport and the Taliban representative, which … Read more

Health Minister Apologizes for Photo with Taliban Representative at WHO Conference

Health Minister Apologizes for Photo with Taliban Representative at WHO Conference

Outgoing minister Ernst Kuipers has apologized for a photo with a Taliban representative. “I didn’t know who this person was at the time,” he wrote X. “This was a mistake, it absolutely should not have happened and I regret it.” The photo of the Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport and the Taliban representative, which … Read more

Afghan Cricketer Rahmanullah Gurbaz’s Heartwarming Diwali gesture in Ahmedabad

Afghan Cricketer Rahmanullah Gurbaz’s Heartwarming Diwali gesture in Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad – Afghanistan cricketer Rahmanullah Gurbaz distributed money to people sleeping on the streets to celebrate Diwali. Gurbaaz’s ‘gift’ to those sleeping on the roadside in Ahmedabad city. Video footage of the star leaving money near sleeping people and getting into the car has surfaced. The video also shows that Gurbaz did this at three … Read more