[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Taliban and Afghan government forces faced off across Afghanistan hours after the start of long-awaited peace talks in Doha, underscoring the uphill challenge of settling a 19-year insurgency.

  [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] More than 12,000 people in Greece are having to sleep outdoors without proper sanitation after a fire tore through the Moria migrant camp on the island of Lesbos.

[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] French police fired tear gas and arrested 256 people in Paris over the weekend as they tussled with “yellow vest” protesters seeking to revive an anti-government movement curbed by the coronavirus lockdown.