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A Guinean army colonel seized control of state television Sunday and declared that President Alpha Conde's government had been dissolved and the West African nation's borders will be closed, an announcement that came after hours of heavy gunfire erupted near the presidential palace.

Several dozen Russians gathered in the center of Moscow on Saturday to protest Russian authorities’ recent crackdown on independent media.

Thousands of French citizens demonstrated in several cities Saturday against the COVID-19 health pass that is now required to access most public places, including restaurants, cafes, sports stadiums, and gyms.

Taliban special forces in camouflage fired their weapons into the air Saturday, bringing an abrupt and frightening end to the latest protest march in the capital by Afghan women demanding equal rights from the new rulers.

The U.S. war in Afghanistan basically ended this past week. After 20 years, America’s longest war came  to a close with the last U.S. troops exiting Kabul.

The Taliban and China further solidified their ties Thursday, with a top official in the insurgent group calling the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) a “trustworthy friend.”

A female Afghan judge who fled the country following the Taliban’s takeover said she was hunted by militants she had previously jailed prior to her escape, according to a report Friday.

Feared Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar — who was once nicknamed "Baradar the Butcher" — will lead the new Afghan government, sources within the militant group told Reuters.

You saw the pictures. The swarm of humanity, jostled against fences at Hamid Karzai International Airport. Take Abbey Gate. That’s where the Americans were. Then the Taliban shut off access to Abbey Gate. Then the suicide bomber came.

Diplomatic relations between Poland and Israel are at an all-time low. Both countries have downgraded their respective embassies. 

U.S. officials are looking into reports that in the frantic evacuation of desperate Afghans from Kabul, older men were admitted together with young girls they claimed as "brides" or otherwise sexually abused.

Members of Congress and their staffers who scrambled to help Americans and their Afghan allies get out of Afghanistan before this week’s withdrawal deadline have revealed some of the frantic messages they received from people desperate to leave in recent days.

A Taliban spokesperson insisted to Fox News on Friday that “there will be no issue about women’s rights” following the militant group’s takeover of Afghanistan, despite widespread international concerns.

China’s government banned effeminate men on TV and told broadcasters Thursday to promote "revolutionary culture," broadening a campaign to tighten control over business and society and enforce official morality.

The government of South Australia has launched an "Orwellian" new COVID-19 quarantine app, complete with facial recognition and geolocation, to enforce 14-day quarantines for travel. The policy actually represents an improvement over the current pandemic restrictions, a policy analyst told Fox News.

dr. linda manyguns, associate vice-president of Indigenization and decolonization at Mount Royal University, said she was joining local leaders to reject symbols of hierarchy "wherever they are found," and will not use capital letters "except to acknowledge the Indigenous struggle for recognition."

Authorities in New Zealand say they shot and killed an Islamic terrorist on Friday afternoon, within 60 seconds of when he started stabbing people at a supermarket.

The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan is complete and the Taliban are the sole authority in Kabul, the tough task of governing now falls on the shoulders of Islamist militants who have been out of power for 20 years.

U.S. troops destroyed or disabled nearly 100 combat vehicles and dozens of aircraft before vacating the airport in Kabul on Monday, in a last-ditch bid to deprive the Taliban of the use of some American military equipment.

Qatar’s top diplomat said Thursday that experts are racing to reopen Kabul’s airport but warned it was not clear when flights would resume, with many still desperate to flee Afghanistan’s new Taliban leaders.