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Sudan says it will hand over its former president Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court.
He's accused of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur, a region of Western Sudan.
The Sudanese government says other officials will also be delivered into the hands of the ICC
Coletta Wanjohi reports from Addis Ababa.
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The White House says no outcome of the conflict in Afghanistan should be considered "inevitable", and Biden administration officials are again insisting that Afghan forces have both the training and the equipment needed to beat back the Taliban offensive in the country.
The Taliban now control nine separate provincial capitals, and intense combat is taking place for the northern stronghold of Mazar E Sharif and the southern city of Kandahar.
Our Washington Correspondent Simon Marks reports.
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Canada is calling for the unconditional release of businessman Michael Spavor from Chinese custody after he was sentenced to 11 years in jail by a court in the city of Dandong on Wednesday.
Mr. Spavor was convicted of espionage, and he's been in Chinese custody since 2018.
Canada maintains he's being held in retaliation for the arrest in Vancouver of a top executive with telecoms giant Huawei.
Patrick Fok reports from Beijing.
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The White House says no outcome of the conflict in Afghanistan should be considered "inevitable", and Biden administration officials are again insisting that Afghan forces have both the training and the equipment needed to beat back the Taliban offensive in the country.
The Taliban now control nine separate provincial capitals, and intense combat is taking place for the northern stronghold of Mazar E Sharif and the southern city of Kandahar,
Reports in Washington indicate that US intelligence officials now believe that the capital Kabul may itself fall within the next 90 days.
But at the White House, press secretary Jen Psaki pushed back against those reports.
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The Afghan government is scrambling to stall the Taliban’s seemingly-unstoppable military advance as one city after the other falls to militants.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has flown to the key city of Mazar-i-Sharif to try and rally military resistance to the Taliban.
US-led talks in Doha are continuing, with Washington threatening the Taliban with international isolation if they take the country by force.
Nina-Maria Potts has more:
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President Cyril Ramaphosa is again appearing before the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture. He is responding to questions based on his time as deputy president of South Africa between 2014 and 2018, having previously appeared in his leadership capacity within the ruling party. His opening statement gives an insight into the options he faced when allegations of state capture first emerged. Mark Roughton reports.
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Bosses at Heathrow Airport are pleading for trade links with Canada and Singapore to be restored. It comes as the airport announced a sharp increase in the number of passengers passing through it in the last month. Chiefs say travel to nations that are 'vital' for UK business needs to return too. Laura Makin-Isherwood reports.
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India's top drug regulator has approved a study to assess if mixing two COVID-19 vaccines is feasible.
The study will include two main vaccines at the country's disposal – the Oxford AstraZenca shot and the locally developed Covaxin.
Experts say a mixed dose regimen could result in better immunogenicity, as Ishan Garg reports.
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Covid cases in the state of New South Wales continue to increase, with 344 new cases of the delta variant and 2 more deaths.
Cases in Queensland have dropped with much of that state now out of lockdown.
While in Victoria, the lockdown has been extended, with new cases continuing to be uncovered.
Shaun Bindley reports from Brisbane.
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A report into the death of a Sri Lankan woman detained at a Japanese immigration facility has found that the medical care system was inadequate. The facility's top officials have been reprimanded.
President Biden says he has no regrets about authorizing the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan, even though the Taliban have now seized control of 6 provincial capitals and are fighting to take over several others.
He’s ordered a US Special Envoy to try and negotiate a ceasefire with Taliban representatives in Doha.
Our Washington Correspondent Simon Marks reports.
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President Biden says he has no regrets about authorizing the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan, even though the Taliban have now seized control of 6 provincial capitals and are fighting to take over several others.
He told reporters it's now up to Afghanistan's armed forces to step up and repulse the Taliban advance.
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The President told reporters he believed it is still possible that Afghan forces can defeat the Taliban, and he expressed hope for a political solution to the crisis.
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US President Joe Biden has welcomed the decision by Governor Andrew Cuomo, a prominent Democrat, to resign as Governor of New York.
The Governor quit one week after an independent investigation showed he had sexually harassed 11 women including a member of his own security detail.
Kathy Hochul (PRON: HOAK-ULL) , the Lieutenant Governor of New York, will now make history becoming the first woman to run the state….its reported that she has not spoken to Governor Cuomo since February.
At the White House, President Biden was asked for his reaction to the Governor's announcement.
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Later at the same White House event, a reporter probed further.
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A Canadian citizen, Robert Schellenberg, has lost his appeal against the death penalty in China.
He denies charges of smuggling methamphetamine into the country and the Canadian government says he's a political pawn being held in retribution for Canada's arrest of a top executive with Huawei.
Reporter Patrick Fok is in Beijing.
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