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Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai in his Kabul home in October. (Elise Blanchard for The Washington Post) Updated December 27, 2022 at 2:00 a.m. EST|Published December 22, 2022 at 2:00 a.m. EST Comment on this story Comment KABUL — A blue penholder, a dictionary and sheaves of papers, some bearing the seal of the ousted […]

Comment on this story Comment China will relax its infamously strict coronavirus restrictions for entry into the country starting Jan. 8, according to a lengthy list of new policies issued Monday by China’s National Health Commission. It is the most significant move so far to reopen a national border that has been all but closed […]

Ukraine is hoping to have a U.N.-backed peace summit by the end of February, or roughly a year into the Russian invasion, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told the Associated Press on Monday. Kuleba said United Nations Secretary General António Guterres should be the mediator, but insisted that Kyiv would not directly engage with Moscow until […]

Comment on this story Comment KABUL, Afghanistan — The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a car bombing that killed a local police chief in Afghanistan. The IS regional affiliate — known as the Islamic State in Khorasan Province — has increased its attacks since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021. Abdulhaq […]

Comment on this story Comment PIDIE, Indonesia — A United Nations agency is seeking information about the voyage of over 100 Rohingya Muslim refugees who landed on an Indonesian beach this week, and warned Tuesday that there will likely be more. A distressing video circulated widely in social media showed the dehydrated and exhausted Rohingya, […]

Comment on this story Comment KHARKIV REGION, Ukraine — When Ukrainian forces came across the abandoned Russian fighting vehicle on the battlefield, they knew they had found a rare prize. The BMP-3, armed with a 100mm machine gun and a 30mm cannon, was one of the few of its kind that the Ukrainian military had […]

A North Korean flag flutters in the wind atop a 160-meter tower in the North Korean village of Gijungdongseen, as seen from the Taesungdong freedom village inside the demilitarized zone in Paju, South Korea, on April 27, 2018. Lee Jin-man / AP Seoul, South Korea — South Korea’s military fired warning shots, scrambled fighter jets […]

Kyiv, Ukraine — The Russian military reported on Monday that it shot down a Ukrainian drone approaching an airbase deep inside Russia, the second time the airbase has been targeted this month, raising questions about the effectiveness of Russia’s air defenses if drones can fly that far into the country. Russia’s Defense Ministry said the […]

South Korea has formally ended a ban on the import of full-body sex dolls, ending years of debate over how much the government can interfere in private life. Although there are no laws or regulations banning the import of sex dolls, hundreds and perhaps thousands have been seized by the customs, which cited a clause […]

Comment on this story Comment The Russian military claimed Monday to have shot down a Ukrainian drone approaching the Engles airfield deep inside Russian territory — in what would be the second such attack in the past month, raising questions about the vulnerabilities of Russia’s air defenses. “A Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was shot down […]