(Last Updated On: February 21, 2021)
Antony Blinken, US Secretary of State, said that US supports a political settlement and permanent and comprehensive ceasefire in Afghanistan.
This comes aftet Blinken and Abdullah Abdullah, head of the High Council for National Reconciliation (HCNR) had a phone conversation about Afghan peace process on Saturday.
“The U.S. supports progress toward a just and durable political settlement and permanent and comprehensive ceasefire,” tweeted Blinken.
Abdullah said that Afghanistan’s situation and the acceleration of Afghan peace process was discussed in this conversation.
“We exchanged views on the #AfghanPeaceProcess, the 2nd round of the peace talks, the US review of the situation in AFG, & ways of accelerating & supporting the peace process,” tweeted About Abdullah.
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Australians woke to empty Facebook news feeds on Thursday, after the social media giant blocked all media content in a surprise escalation of a dispute with the government, which could be a test for the future of online publishing worldwide.
The move was swiftly criticised by news producers, politicians and human rights advocates, particularly as it became clear that official health pages, emergency safety warnings and welfare networks had all been scrubbed from the site along with news.
“Facebook’s actions to unfriend Australia today, cutting off essential information services on health and emergency services, were as arrogant as they were disappointing,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison wrote on his own Facebook page, using the vernacular for cutting ties with another person on the site.
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Australia not intimidated by Facebook news ban
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said his government will not be intimidated by Facebook blocking news feeds to users.
He described the move to unfriend Australia as arrogant and disappointing.
Facebook is responding to a proposed law which would make tech giants pay for news content on their platforms.
Australians on Thursday woke up to find that Facebook pages of all local and global news sites were unavailable.
People outside the country are also unable to read or access any Australian news publications on the platform.
Several government health and emergency pages were also blocked. Facebook later asserted this was a mistake and many of these pages are now back online.
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said his government will not be intimidated by Facebook blocking news feeds to users.
He described the move to unfriend Australia as arrogant and disappointing.
Facebook is responding to a proposed law which would make tech giants pay for news content on their platforms.
It says the legislation fundamentally misunderstands the relationship between the platform and publishers.
Australians on Thursday woke up to find that Facebook pages of all local and global news sites were unavailable. People outside the country are also unable to read or access any Australian news publications on the platform.