内容摘要：, killing at least 29 civilians in the Bureij refugee camp, including women and children.

, killing at least 29 civilians in the Bureij refugee camp, including women and children.

Participants were relieved to have good weather, after last year’s attempt was hampered by heavy rain that deterred many from attending.No country formally recognises the Taliban. But the group’s recent diplomatic overdrive shows many want it as a partner.

For a country whose government is not recognised by any nation, Afghanistan’s acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi has had an unusually busy calendar in recent weeks.He has hosted his counterpart from Pakistan, spoken on the phone with India’s foreign minister, and jetted to Iran and China. In Beijing, he also met the Pakistani foreign minister again. On Wednesday, he joined trilateral talks with delegations from Pakistan and China.This, even though the ruling Taliban have historically had tense relations with most of these countries, and currently have taut ties with Pakistan, a one-time ally with whom trust is at an all-time low.

While neither the United Nations nor any of its member states formally recognise the Taliban, analysts say that this diplomatic overdrive suggests that the movement is far from a pariah on the global stage.So why are multiple countries in Afghanistan’s neighbourhood queueing up to engage diplomatically with the Taliban, while avoiding formal recognition?

We unpack the Taliban’s latest high-level regional engagements and look at why India, Pakistan and Iran are all trying to befriend Afghanistan’s rulers, four years after they marched on Kabul and grabbed power.

Who did Muttaqi meet or speak to in recent weeks?The company is betting that its “fail fast, learn fast” approach will eventually pay off. Still, it acknowledged in a statement that progress “won’t always come in leaps”.

In issuing approval for Tuesday’s test, the FAA said it had nearly doubled the airspace closure zone to 1,600 nautical miles (2,963 km) east of the launch site.The Starship test involved coordination with authorities in the United Kingdom, the British-controlled Turks and Caicos Islands, the Bahamas, Mexico and Cuba, according to the AFP news agency.

The FAA also recently approved an increase in annual launches from five to 25 – stating that the increased frequency would not adversely affect the environment, and overruling objections from conservation groups.The FAA’s changes come as Musk has played a prominent role in US President Donald Trump’s second administration, claiming to focus his attention on what he describes as “billions, hundreds of millions of dollars of