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By Nectar Gan, CNN China reported no new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases on Monday for the first time since July, according to its National Health Commission (NHC), as authorities double down on the country’s stringent zero-Covid approach. China has been grappling with the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant since July 20, when a

By Ben Westcott and Eric Cheung, CNN Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen received her first shot of the island’s homegrown Covid-19 vaccine on Monday, a public show of support for the new drug which is central to plans for inoculation self sufficiency amid low immunization rates and struggles to obtain vaccines from overseas. Monday’s island-wide rollout

By Sheena McKenzie, Nick Paton Walsh and Sam Kiley, CNN One week after the Taliban takeover of Kabul, the situation at the capital’s airport has become increasingly desperate, with more than 20,000 people in and around the facility trying to board flights and another seven Afghan civilians killed in crushes, amid one of the largest

By Sheena McKenzie, CNN A female journalist receives a call warning that they “will come soon.” A woman lawmaker sits and waits for her killers. A little girl wonders how much longer her school gates will remain open. For Afghanistan’s women and girls, this is the terrifying uncertainty they now find themselves in. As Taliban

By Brad Lendon, CNN An Afghan mother delivered a baby girl just after touching down at Ramstein Air Base in Germany Saturday aboard a US military evacuation flight, the US Air Force said on its social media. In a Twitter thread Sunday, the US Air Mobility Command said the woman went into labor aboard a

By CNN staff Eva Cai knows she wants a child. She’s just not sure if she wants a husband. So, in 2019 she took a train across the border from the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou to Hong Kong, where she froze her eggs in a private clinic. Now age 31, the senior executive still

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Zahra shelters in her Kabul apartment, anxiously peering through the window at Taliban fighters in the parking lot below. She hasn’t dared to leave her house for days. Only two weeks ago, she and her friend Sara were drinking and laughing at a party in Kabul. The Taliban were approaching —

By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN A former senior official of Afghanistan’s ousted President Ashraf Ghani has detailed a vivid picture of the last weeks of Ghani’s government, including how the President and his advisers were stunned by the speed of the Taliban’s advance on the capital of Kabul. Ghani was far from prepared for the

By Rob Picheta, Nadine Schmidt and Tim Lister, CNN Afghans are witnessing early glimpses of the true nature of Taliban rule, after the brutal repression of several protests and the murder of a journalist’s relative betrayed the militant group’s promises to lead an “inclusive” and restrained regime. The German news organization Deutsche Welle (DW) said

By Angus Watson and Julia Hollingsworth, CNN New Zealand will extend a nationwide lockdown for four days after uncovering several locally transmitted Covid-19 cases. The lockdown began Tuesday over a single infection, the country’s first locally transmitted case since February. That patient had contracted highly transmissible Delta variant of the coronavirus. Authorities have since uncovered

By Nectar Gan and Steve George, CNN As the highly infectious Delta variant took hold in China last month, Zhang Wenhong, a well-respected infectious disease expert in Shanghai, told a concerned Chinese public to prepare to live with the coronavirus for the long haul — but his candor came at a price. For more than

By Nilly Kohzad, CNN Since the Taliban swept to power in Afghanistan, seizing provincial capitals at lightning speed, it’s been difficult to get a picture of what life is like for Afghans outside the capital, Kabul. Especially for women. On Thursday, CNN reached three women — all in their mid-20s and well-educated — to get