The deputy director of the Taliban (terrorist group, banned in Russia) political office, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, has met with UK and German diplomats in Doha, receiving assurances that the two nations would increase their humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan, the radical group said on Friday

US veteran of World War II Donald Halverson participated in a number of fierce and costly battles in Europe, including the Battle of Monte Cassino that led to the loss of 35 soldiers out 40 in his platoon, and he shared with Sputnik the vivid memories of those brutal military campaigns and the feeling of luck to remain alive and unwounded

According to provisional results by the National election authority (l'ANE), the Central African Republic's incumbent president, Faustin-Archange Touadera, is headed toward winning a second term in last month's ballot getting 53.9 percent of the votes in the first round of elections, but no prospects for national reconciliation are looming, experts told Sputnik

A high-level Taliban delegation has departed for neighboring Pakistan to hold negotiations with the country's top-level officials including the prime and foreign ministers, spokesman Naeem Wardak said