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U.S. to move $3.5 billion in Afghan central bank assets to Swiss-based trust

The United States on Wednesday announced that it would transfer $3.5 billion in Afghan central bank assets into a new Swiss-based trust fund that will be shielded from the Taliban and used to help stabilize Afghanistan's collapsed economy.

Reuters

For India, the buzzword now is ‘all-alignment’

Its participation in the SCO summit is a clear signal of pursuing multi-alignment with its partners worldwide

The Hindu

Iran may urge India to restart oil import

Chabahar, regional connectivity and Afghanistan on agenda for talks on sidelines of SCO summit

The Hindu

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Prince Harry hits back over funeral ban ‘military service not determined by uniform’

The Duke of Sussex served two tours of duty in Afghanistan

Evening Standard

Prince Harry blocked from wearing uniform while mourning Queen but Prince Andrew allowed

The Duke of Sussex has been denied the chance to wear military uniform as he mourns the Queen, even though his disgraced uncle the Duke of York will be permitted to do so at the lying in state vigil. Harry, who saw action on the front line during two tours…

Evening Standard

Afghanistan: Underground radio station broadcasts lessons to girls stuck at home

Since the Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, most girls have been banned from going to high school. But some women are resisting, like Hamida Aman, founder of Radio Begum. Against the rules, she has set up an underground school within her radio station. The girls, aged…

France 24

Editorial: Unfinished business: US must do more to welcome Afghan refugees

In the year since the botched U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, tens of thousands of Afghans have been forced to suffer through another administrative disaster, this one unfolding mostly in drab D.C. office buildings via mountains of monotonous paperwork.

Tribune News Service

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Photos: Dana White’s Contender Series 54 weigh-ins and faceoffs

Check out these photos from the Dana White's Contender Series 54 weigh-ins and faceoffs in Las Vegas.

USA Today Sports Media Group

UN expert decries ‘systematic’ attacks on Afghan Shia groups

UN expert warns attacks against Hazaras, other Shia Muslims in Afghanistan bear ‘hallmarks of international crimes’.

Al Jazeera

U.N. says three Afghan female staff temporarily detained by Taliban

The United Nations' Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA) on Monday said three of its female Afghan employees had been temporarily detained by Taliban security agents and called on the group to stop intimidation of its local female staff.

Reuters

U.N. human rights expert decries 'descent towards authoritarianism' in Afghanistan

A U.N. expert on Monday said that human rights had deteriorated under the Taliban, describing a "descent towards authoritarianism" and calling for radical changes.

Reuters

Paris Perspective #33: Global crises and the International Rescue Committee - David Miliband

In this edition of Paris Perspective, RFI's David Coffey meets former UK foreign secretary and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, David Miliband, to discuss the crises the world is facing in 2022 and what his NGO is doing to help millions of refugees and internally displaced.

Radio France Internationale

Afghan humanitarian crisis widens

One year after the appalling collapse of Afghanistan in August last year into the hands of the Taliban insurgents, the humanitarian crisis in that beleaguered South Asian country has gone from bad to worse.

Bangkok Post

The 29 forgotten heroes of our country - and the wrong that Salford's putting right

Their names are not carved on the city's Cenotaphs like their brothers in arms who fell in the First and Second World Wars. But they too paid the ultimate price for serving their country.

Manchester Evening News

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Asharq Al-Awsat

What Is Left of the War on Terror?

Can three planes sum up a portion of history and the future? It seems that this has already happened. While two of these planes hit the World Trade Center in New York on 9/11, the third took off around twenty years later, departing from Afghanistan as desperate Afghans chased it,…

The Independent UK

Biden to honor 9/11 victims as shadow of Afghan war looms

President Joe Biden will mark the 21st anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks at the Pentagon

Al Jazeera

Asia Cup final: Pakistan, Sri Lanka meet in Sunday’s decider

Both sides have made it to the decider amid tough conditions and the UAE heat.

Al Jazeera

Afghan girls take to streets to protest school closure in Paktia

Dozens of girls rally in Gardez after Taliban shuts four schools, which were reopened on intervention of tribal elders.

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Black Hawk helicopter crashes during Taliban training exercise, killing three

A Black Hawk helicopter crashed during a Taliban training exercise in Afghanistan's capital Kabul, killing three, the group's defence ministry said on Saturday.

The Hindu

Kohli is more skillful than me, says Sourav Ganguly

Virat Kohli recently recorded his first international century in 1020 days, when he slammed a 61-ball 122 not out during India’s final Super 4 clash against Afghanistan

The Independent UK

Taliban close girls schools in east that had briefly opened

Witnesses and social media reports say Taliban authorities have shut down girls schools above the sixth grade in eastern Afghanistan’s Paktia province

Al Jazeera

Afghan Adjustment Act: What does it mean for refugees in US?

Legislation could give Afghans paroled to the US a path to permanent residency after months of uncertainty.

Los Angeles Times

Analysis: Vietnam and Afghanistan — America's 2 longest wars, with very different lasting impacts

WASHINGTON — When a comparison was made between the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan a year ago and a similar debacle in Vietnam 46 years earlier, President Joe Biden and his administration recoiled.

The Hindu

Asia Cup 2022 | 'So then should I sit out?': KL Rahul's counter-query when asked if Virat Kohli should open in T20Is

Opening the batting in absebnnce of skipper Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli scored his 71st international 100 against Afghanistan on Thursday, September 8, 2022

The Guardian - UK

Tajikistan ‘rounding up and deporting Afghan refugees’

UN refugee agency urges authorities to end forced deportations as families say they are too scared to leave their homes

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