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By Clarissa Ward, Brent Swails and Ivana Kottasová, CNN The busy Kabul street looks almost as if nothing has changed. People rush by, as shopkeepers arrange their colorful merchandise, and police direct traffic. There’s one big change, though: There are almost no women here. Since the Taliban took over the Afghan capital on Sunday, women

By Rob Picheta, Celine Alkhaldi, Nada Bashir and Nina Avramova, CNN Thousands of desperate Afghans remain stranded under Taliban rule in Kabul on Tuesday, as the US and its allies — still frantically evacuating their personnel from the city’s airport — reckon with the sudden breakdown of their two-decade effort in Afghanistan. The situation at

By Anna Coren, Sandi Sidhu, Abdul Basir Bina and Hilary Whiteman, CNN Najia was at home with her three young sons and daughter in a small village in northern Afghanistan when Taliban fighters knocked on their door. Najia’s daughter Manizha, 25, knew they were coming — her mother had told her they’d done the same

By Julia Hollingsworth and Chandler Thornton, CNN New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced a nationwide lockdown after the country confirmed one coronavirus case — the first locally transmitted Covid-19 case in the community since February. Ardern told a press conference Tuesday authorities were assuming it was the contagious Delta variant, although genome sequencing

By Jessie Yeung and Nectar Gan, CNN Chinese-Canadian pop star Kris Wu has been formally arrested on suspicion of rape, prosecutors in Beijing said in a statement Monday. The move comes after 30-year-old Wu was first detained on July 31 by police in the Chinese capital, following an online outcry over sexual assault allegation against

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at Malaysia, a country located in Southeast Asia. Neighboring regions include Thailand, Borneo, Indonesia, Brunei and the South China Sea. About Malaysia (from the CIA World Factbook)Area: 329,847 sq km Population: 33,871,431 (2022 est.) Median age: 29.2 years Capital: Kuala Lumpur Ethnic Groups: Malay and indigenous 62.5%, Chinese 20.6%,

By Jessie Yeung, CNN Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF), the pro-democracy group that organized some of Hong Kong’s biggest protests, announced Sunday that it was disbanding — the latest of a string of civic organizations that have dissolved in the wake of a sweeping national security law. CHRF, an over-arching organization of local pro-democracy groups,

By Emiko Jozuka, CNN At least four people are presumed dead and two are missing after torrential rain triggered mudslides throughout Japan. Three of those victims in Nagano prefecture’s Okaya City were presumed dead, though workers were able to pull out five people alive. Authorities said Friday that a 59-year-old woman in Unzen, Nagasaki prefecture,

By Cyril Vanier and Jo Shelley, CNN It’s been years since Haji and his wife have had a good night’s sleep. “All night, my wife wakes up,” says Haji. “She’s scared. If [she hears] somebody is coming, she calls me, ‘Haji, someone is coming!’” His wife says the first thing she does is hide the

By Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Over the last week, the Taliban has made significant gains across Afghanistan and now control over half of the country’s provincial capitals. Cities like Kandahar, Herat and Kunduz are among those now under control of the Taliban, whose fighters are circling ever closer to the capital, Kabul. CNN spoke to Afghans

By Akanksha Sharma, Masrur Jamaluddin and Hilary Whiteman, CNN Taufiq Hidayat enters the homes of the dead to claim bodies no one will touch. He leads a dozen volunteer undertakers who take calls from grieving families in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, the center of one of the world’s largest Covid-19 outbreaks. “It’s really tough and

By Nectar Gan, CNN Chinese health authorities have issued new guidelines upping the requirement of mask wearing for the public — including in outdoor areas, as the country grapples with its worst resurgence of Covid-19 in more than a year. The Delta variant outbreak spreading across more than half of China’s provinces has put authorities