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Taliban Prepares to Send Top Diplomat to Beijing

The Chinese Communist Party invited Taliban “foreign minister” Amir Khan Muttaqi to Beijing this weekend following assurances that Beijing will offer continuing support for the jihadist rulers at a meeting in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Afghanistan's acting deputy Prime Minister Abdul Ghani Baradar speaks during the inaugurat

Trump Says 80% China Tariff ‘Seems Right’

President Donald Trump indicated that he would approve an 80 percent tariff on China but said the path of the negotiations would be up to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. “80% Tariff on China seems right! Up to Scott B,” Trump said in

US President Donald Trump waits to speak in Emancipation Hall during inauguration ceremoni

India Eliminates Terrorist who Beheaded Daniel Pearl in Strike on Pakistan

India’s governing BJP party said on Thursday that its “Operation Sindhoor” counter-terrorist airstrikes on Pakistan “eliminated” Abdul Rauf Azhar, the operational commander of the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist group and the mastermind behind American journalist Daniel Pearl’s kidnapping and beheading in 2002.

This undated photo shows Daniel Pearl, a Wall Street Journal newspaper reporter kidnapped