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Previous attempts to engage Kabul and Taliban in negotiations have fallen flat, including the opening of a Taliban office in Qatar in 2013 which was shut down after ex- Afghan President Hamid Karzai sharply criticized the move, arguing that Kabul would only engage in inter-Afghan...

Officials from Pakistan, the USA and China are also participating in the talks, which shows the commitment of the global community to resolving the crisis.

Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha also raised the possibility of shutting the Thai Embassy in Turkey after protesters attacked the honorary consulate in Istanbul, smashing windows and ransacking parts of the building, over the expulsion of the Uighurs back to China.

Now, even as the Taliban are making some of their biggest gains on the battlefield in years, they have appeared more willing to talk.

The first officially acknowledged peace talks between representatives of the Afghan Taliban and the government in Kabul have ended with an agreement to meet again after the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, Pakistan said on Wednesday.

An employee looks at an electronic board at Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo Thursday, July 9, 2015.

President Barack Obama had announced his intention to pull out all but 5,500 troops by year’s end.

Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Uighurs have fled China in recent years.

The Chinese stock market has been experiencing a sharp fall after a year of mad zeniths.

The market turmoil may also prove a setback for Beijing’s lobbying for Chinese shares to be included in global indices such as MSCI’s Emerging Markets Index, which would draw in foreign capital. However it’s unlikely to seriously affect USA investors because...

(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan). That wouldn’t be allowed in the US, but it’s permitted in China.

In Hong Kong, stocks extended a recovery into a second day as the Hang Seng Index rallied 2.3%, while a gauge of Chinese companies listed on the city’s stock exchange, known as H-shares, rose 4.4%.

They broke down the doors to the building, pulled down the sign outside and damaged the furnishings inside, television footage showed.

At 9:42 a.m. ET (1342 GMT) the Dow Jones industrial average was down 156.73 points, or 0.88 percent, at 17,620.18. Both HarperCollins and The Wall Street Journal are owned by News Corp. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has until midnight to propose spending-cut plans.

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