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GENEVA – The International Labor Organization (ILO) has called for greater protection of homeworkers, who have increased in the face of the impact for Covid-19. In its report “Working from home from invisibility to decent work”, UN agency shows that this group does not have the same level of protection …

KABUL – A House of Lords committee on Tuesday recommended that British troops should stay in Afghanistan until peace talks with the Taliban are over and urged the British government to shape its own policy rather than simply follow the United States. Releasing their report on “The UK and Afghanistan”, …

KABUL – Ian Collard, British Deputy Ambassador to Afghanistan Thursday issued a New Year message, calling for an urgent end to violence in Afghanistan. He stated that the Afghan people have been victims of the high level of violence and targeted attacks on human rights activists, journalists, and government workers …

GENEVA – Experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) have warned that while the coronavirus pandemic has been very serious, it is “not necessarily the big one”, and that the world will have to learn to live with Covid-19. The “fate” of the virus is to become endemic, even as …

LONDON – Talks to reach a post-Brexit trade deal are in a “serious situation”, Boris Johnson said after a call with European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen. He warned that “time is running out” and that a no-deal scenario is “very likely” unless the EU’s position changes “substantially”. Von …

KABUL – The British Embassy in Kabul Wednesday – on occasion of the International Anti-Corruption Day 2020 – vowed to stand “united in the fight against corruption”, said the embassy in a statement to media outlets. “On International Anti-Corruption Day, and every day, the UK stands alongside our Afghan and …

KABUL – The British Embassy in Kabul has announced that the country is committed to supporting Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) with £70 million next year. The British embassy in a press statement on Tuesday said that London pledged its support for the ANDSF at the general meeting …

KABUL – The United States and the United Kingdom have called for intra-Afghan peace talks to begin ‘without delay’. US National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien has said that he had a phone call with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Monday to discuss the need for intra-Afghan talks to start without …

WASHINGTON – The United States on Monday vetoed a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution to prosecute, rehabilitate and reinstate those involved in terrorist-related activities. The country said it had missed a crucial part of the repatriation of foreign fighters from the extremist “Islamic State” group and their families. “The …

LONDON – A former British ambassador to Turkey has been named head of the government’s secret intelligence service (MI6) on Wednesday. Richard Moore, political director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will take up his new position in the fall. He served as the UK envoy to Ankara between January …