The embassy of the Islamic Republic of afghanistan in washington. My colleague and director will be moderating the conversation but its my great pleasure and honor to ask the ambassador to provide welcoming remarks. Your excellency. Thank you. Good morning, good afternoon or good evening depending on where you are right now in joining us for the session. It is my pleasure to welcome you to the second event of the embassy of afghanistan. We are glad to be hosting the event on lebanons agreement and partnership with the Atlantic Council a wonderful partner of the embassy in washington. I want to offer a warm thank you to the Atlantic Council further help in organizing this important discussion and all the great work they are continuously doing. Furthermore i would like to express my gratitude for taking the time to share their knowledge and insight with us today. Ambassador i thank you and not just for joining us today that for all the great work that youve done in afghanistan over the y
Western country to approve a covert 1000 vaccine for public use those most at risk including Health Workers and tell her residents will get the job from next week Prime Minister baraks johnson praised scientists for their work but said people still need to be cautious Hong Kong Media tycoon and prodemocracy activist jimmy lives been denied bail after being charged with fraud the 73 year old is an outspoken critic of beijing and was arrested in august on suspicion of colluding with Foreign Forces he was later released a much japans government says it has grave concerns over the jailing of 3 other prodemocracy activists joshua wang agnes chao ivan last they were sentenced after pleading guilty to Unlawful Assembly during last years protests wong was jailed for 13 months and got 10 and 7 months respectively. U. S. President obama trying to give a speech on social media repeating his unfounded allegations of Election Fraud facebook and twitter placed warnings on his video statement. The Af
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Confirmed more than a 1000000 cases of call that 19 is the hardest hit country in the middle east that is easily killed almost 50000 people their Health Minister says the actual number of fatalities is likely to be much higher at that big has more from tehran many people werent tested or in Critical Condition and ended up dying before a test could be administered now the country is in a partial lockdown the figures are slightly down the death toll has decreased from come down from just over 400. 00 true around mid 3350. 00 and the new infections every 24 hours around 13000. 00 now who has to be noted is that iran is experiencing its feared wave of the krona virus or as many countries are still on the 2nd wave. Russia reported more than 28000 new cold in 1000 infections on thursday that it says highest spike yet the 2nd largest city St Petersburg has announced restrictions around the new Year Holidays meanwhile in the u. S. More than 3100 people have died from cold in 19 in a single day
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