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    Kamala Harris's seven-day trip to Singapore and Vietnam is aimed at standing up to China's growing security and economic influence globally and addressing concerns about China's claims to disputed parts of the South China Sea. U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday accused Beijing of coercion and intimidation to back unlawful claims in the South China Sea, her most pointed comments on China during a visit to Southeast Asia which she said was critical to U.S. security. Harris's seven-day trip to Singapore and Vietnam, only her second foray internationally, is aimed at standing up to China's growing security and economic influence, addressing concerns about Beijing's claims to disputed parts of the South China Sea and showing Washington can lead the way. In a speech in Singapore, Harris laid out the U.S. vision for the region built on human rights and a rules-based international order and sought to solidify Washington's pivot towards As...

    The Taliban have warned there would be "consequences" if the US and its allies extend their presence in Afghanistan beyond the August 31 deadline, as chaos continued to overwhelm Kabul airport. The Taliban takeover of the country last weekend shocked Western nations, coming just two weeks before the deadline for all troops to fully withdraw from the country. Taliban's statement came a day after US President Joe Biden said he still hopes to complete the "heartbreaking" evacuation from Afghanistan by the end of the month. Meanwhile, Britain said Monday it would urge the US to extend the August 31 deadline for evacuations from Afghanistan. However, the Taliban, who have so far sought to strike a more moderate tone, showed no willingness to compromise on the US pullout. Here are the LIVE Updates on Afghanistan-Taliban crisis: Western countries worked at a "war-footing pace" on Tuesday to get people out of Afghanistan, a NATO country diplom...

    Nine years after she was shot by the Taliban, Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai watched in horror as the terrorist group seized power in Afghanistan. "I watched as province after province fell to men with guns, loaded with bullets like the one that shot me," the 24-year-old said in a post published on Podium, once again emphasising on the need to draw global attention to the plight of civilians in the country.  In 2012, Malala was shot in the head by Taliban terrorists in Pakistan for her campaign for the education of girls. "In October 2012, a member of the Pakistani Taliban boarded my school bus and shot one bullet into my left temple. The bullet grazed my left eye, skull and brain - lacerating my facial nerve, shattering my eardrum and breaking my jaw joints," she recalled in her post. The rights activist described the aftermath of the incident - although her own memories of the day she was shot are non-existent. In her post, she spoke ab...

    Hanoi: US Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday again charged China with bullying its Southeast Asian neighbours, the second time in two days she has attacked Beijing during a regional visit aimed at countering China's growing influence. Earlier on Wednesday, Chinese state media accused Harris of seeking to drive a wedge between China and Southeast Asian nations with comments in Singapore that Beijing used coercion and intimidation to back its unlawful South China Sea claims. Speaking in Hanoi on Wednesday, Harris said there was a need to increase pressure on Beijing over its maritime claims. "We need to find ways to pressure, raise the pressure... on Beijing to abide by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, and to challenge, its bullying and excessive maritime claims," said Harris during a meeting with Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc. China, Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Taiwan, lay claim to parts of the South Ch...

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  Valtteri Bottas has revealed that his teammate and 7-time world champion Lewis Hamilton told him directly that he wants him to stay at Mercedes. Bottas is out of contract at the end of the season and with budding Mercedes driver George Russell who has been dubbed by many a potential future world champion waiting in the wings at the beleaguered Williams team, many believe that Bottas will be shown the door for young blood. "Unfortunately, there is nothing to say," Bottas told Finland's MTV Sport of his Mercedes future, as quoted by RacingNews365.com. "It remains to be seen what happens. I don't think there will be any news in the near future, but yes, those things will be clear in time. Everything is going in the right direction. I can't say who we're going to talk to and what's going on, but things are being discussed so that we can find the best option for next season. Lewis has told me quite directly that he would like me to be his...

  Washington: US Central Intelligence Agency chief William Burns held a secret meeting in Kabul with Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. The Monday meeting, which if confirmed will have been the highest-level encounter between the Islamist group and the Biden administration since the militants' return to power, came as efforts to evacuate thousands of people from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan became increasingly urgent. Burns is one of US President Joe Biden's most experienced diplomats; while Baradar, who headed the Taliban's political office in Qatar, is one of the top leaders in the regime that has taken power in Kabul. A spokesperson for the CIA would not confirm the meeting to AFP, saying that the agency "never discusses the director's travels." The Washington Post, which cited anonymous US sources for the meeting, did not the content of the discussions between the Taliban co-founder and the ...