Canada will remain in Afghanistan beyond the Aug. 31 date set for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country to help evacuate more Canadians and eligible Afghans if the security situation permits, said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Haiti has a proud past but a difficult history. The recent earthquake is the country’s latest disaster, but entrenched crises of poverty and political instability are inhibiting its ability to respond as thousands languish without much-needed aid.
'The Taliban is intensifying a search for people who worked with U.S., Canadian and NATO forces in Afghanistan. My family members are in hiding, but the Canadian government says they don’t qualify for help,' says Ahmad Malgarai, who served as a cultural and language advisor to the Canadian forces in Afghanistan.
Hong Kong said on Tuesday that new film censorship legislation will be introduced to "safeguard national security," in another sign of shrinking freedoms in the former British colony.
Iran has registered its highest single-day COVID-19 death toll of the pandemic, according to state media reports.
Western countries worked at a "war-footing pace" on Tuesday to get people out of Afghanistan, a NATO country diplomat said, as U.S. President Joe Biden looked set to come under pressure from other G7 leaders to seek more time to complete the airlift.
