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Washington is concerned that post-poll violence could undermine the stability of Africa’s top oil producer and hamper efforts to tackle the Islamist militants of Boko Haram.

“There’s a reason, Joe, that all these companies are firing him, because he’s become toxic as a presidential candidate, and I hope we all understand that on the Republican side”.

Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict Leila Zerrougui urged the Afghan government to inject child protection measures into any further negotiations that flow from its first direct talks with Taliban representatives.

Afghan officials are holding talks with Taliban representatives in the Pakistani capital in their first official face-to-face discussions, which the Afghan president said Tuesday were aimed at starting full-fledged negotiations.

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...

“There’re a few Taliban who still don’t want peace”. As the insurgency rages in Afghanistan, the Taliban’s leadership has taken refuge in Pakistan. That will be difficult because fighters are spread across Afghanistan and Pakistan, he said.

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

Ceasefire is a major demand from the Afghan government as Dr Ashraf Ghani’s government is seemingly helpless in countering the Taliban’s spring offensive, the official said, adding that during the dialogue held on Tuesday night at Murree, the Afghan Taliban delegation...

However an official with the Pakistani Foreign Ministry said that two days of talks would begin on Wednesday.

A delegation from Afghanistan’s president is meeting representatives of the Taliban in the Pakistani capital, officials said, in the first publicly acknowledged talks with the insurgents fighting to topple the government in Kabul.

An official from the Afghan government’s high peace council told The Associated Press that the meeting took place Tuesday in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. As security has deteriorated, a handful of Afghan districts have fallen under Taliban control. That toll includes...

Another Pakistani government official doubted whether the talks would have any positive outcome, claiming that the Afghan government was actually holding discussions with a splinter factor of the Taliban led by Mullah Mansoor Dadullah – who had allegedly been cut off by the...

Nguyen Phu Trong – the head of Vietnam’s communist party and one of most powerful figures in the Southeast Asian nation – will meet with President Obama on Tuesday for a historic meeting aimed at strengthening ties between the two nations.

After an initial plunge, the Dow Jones industrial average was down just 0.1 percent at midday.

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