(Bloomberg) Airlines are owed almost $1 billion across 20 countries as governments seek to hang on to hard currency, depriving the industry of vital cash at a time when travel has been devastated by the coronavirus crisis.
(Bloomberg) The United Arab Emirates said it is hosting Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani and his family.
“The UAE has welcomed President Ashraf Ghani and his family into the country on humanitarian grounds,” the UAE foreign ministry said in a statement.
For decades the Taliban’s leadership structure has been in the shadows: Even before the U.S. invasion in 2001, little was known about how the group operates beyond the names of a few top leaders.
The Taliban’s senior leadership includes many Mujahideen fighters who were once trained by the U.S. during the Cold War. Here are seven of the most influential men in the organization:
Oil slumped below $65 a barrel as the U.S. Federal Reserve signaled that it was set to start tapering asset purchases within months, hurting commodities and supporting the dollar.