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R. Kelly lived in a Twilight Zone where he called all the shots, including whether visitors at his Chicagoarea mansion could leave or order takeout food, one of his former employees testified on Friday.

Taliban have presented a more moderate face, saying they want peace, will not take revenge against old enemies and will respect the rights of Afghanistan women within the framework of Islamic law.

Israel was one of the first countries to launch a vaccination drive in mid-December via an agreement with Pfizer to obtain millions of paid vaccine doses in exchange for sharing data on their effectiveness.

An appeals court on Thursday rejected an effort by the Arizona Senate to keep secret records of its ongoing review of the 2020 election in Maricopa County that are in the possession of the contractors conducting the recount.

The European Commission said on Thursday it had reached a temporary agreement with South Africa to use a plant there to bottle Johnson & Johnson COVID19 vaccines that are being imported into the EU, after criticism of the arrangement.

Ardern ordered a three-day national lockdown -- New Zealand's first in 15 months -- when the first case emerged on Tuesday, with Auckland and nearby Coromandel facing restrictions for a week.

The U.S. Transportation Department on Wednesday said it will limit some Chinese air carrier flights to 40% passenger capacity for four weeks after the Chinese government imposed similar limits on four United Airlines flights.

Karzai was accompanied by the old government's main peace envoy, Abdullah Abdullah, in the meeting, said a Taliban official.

The Taliban now say they will prevent Afghanistan from again being used as a base for attacks, something that was enshrined in a 2020 peace deal with the Trump administration that paved the way for the American withdrawal.

For the first time since retaking power in Afghanistan, the Taliban’s leaders on Tuesday sketched out what their control of the country could look like, promising peace at home and urging the world to look past their history of violence.

We will not discuss what type of political system should we apply in Afghanistan because it is clear. It is sharia law and that is it, said Hashimi.

The country has overall reported about 2,500 confirmed coronavirus cases and 26 related deaths

A former United States Golf Association employee has been charged in a scheme to embezzle funds from the unauthorized sale of U.S. Open Championship tickets, Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced Tuesday.

A witness to an incident last week involving MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell says he saw no reason for Lindell to claim he was attacked at a South Dakota hotel.

Orphaned at a young age, Saleh first fought alongside anti-Taliban guerilla commander Ahmed Shah Massoud Massoud in Panjshir in the 1990s.

The transport aircraft took a total of 640 Afghans, believed to be among the most people ever flown in the C-17. The aircraft flew to Qatar, where the Afghans disembarked.