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U.N. Security Council to discuss Taliban ordering women to cover faces again

The United Nations Security Council will meet on Thursday to discuss an order by Afghanistan's Taliban for women to cover their faces in public, a return to a signature policy of the Islamist group's past hardline rule and an escalation of restrictions.

Reuters

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Women judges bring an invaluable diversity of their lived experience to the courtroom. This diversity means that justice will better reflect the society it serves.

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US intel questioned for misjudging Afghanistan, Ukraine

Top U.S. intelligence officials acknowledge they misjudged the durability of the governments in both Afghanistan and Ukraine

The Independent UK

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Nearly 10 million children going hungry in Afghanistan, says NGO

Save the Children says almost 50 percent of the population needs urgent support to survive despite continuing food aid.

Al Jazeera

Former England batter Graham Thorpe ‘seriously ill’ in hospital

The 52-year-old had accepted the job of Afghanistan head coach following his departure from the England set-up after this winter’s Ashes.

The Independent UK

Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS to Hold 1st Ministerial Meeting in Marrakech

The Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS will hold its first ministerial meeting in Marrakech on Wednesday, at the joint invitation of Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The meeting aims to address ISIS’s growing threat in Africa and efforts to combat this threat in…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Australian spies helped Afghanistan exit

Australian Secret Intelligence Service director-general Paul Symon has delivered an address to mark the 70th anniversary of the agency.

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New life, new struggles: Afghans still adjusting to US

For many of the Afghans evacuated to the United States last August, their journey remains very much a work in progress

The Independent UK

U.S. says it will increase pressure on Taliban if it does not reverse decisions on women, girls

The United States will take steps to increase pressure on Afghanistan's Taliban government to reverse some of its recent decisions restricting the rights of women and girls if the hardline group shows no sign of rescinding the actions on its own.

Reuters

LA Times foreign correspondent and photojournalist Marcus Yam wins Pulitzer Prize for work in Afghanistan

LOS ANGELES — Marcus Yam, a Los Angeles Times journalist with a warrior’s courage and a poet’s heart, won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography Monday for his poignant and searing pictures of last summer’s fall of Kabul, Afghanistan, to Taliban fighters.

Los Angeles Times

Pulitzer Prizes awarded to Washington Post, New York Times, LA Times

The Washington Post won the Pulitzer Prize in public service journalism Monday for its coverage of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the US Capitol, an attack on democracy that was a shocking start to a tumultuous year that also saw the end of the United States’ longest war, in Afghanistan.

France 24

Peter Dutton’s department confirms defence minister has six Brereton oversight reports

But despite being in role for 13 months, Dutton has never spoken in parliament about reforms stemming from alleged war crimes committed in Afghanistan

The Guardian - AU

Anger in Afghanistan as some women defy Taliban full burka order

Not all Afghan women are willing to obey the latest order from the Taliban to wear the full-length burka and veil.

ABC News

Norway slams Afghan Taliban edict demanding women cover up

Norway has slammed the latest Afghan Taliban edict demanding women cover up head to toe in public and warned that Afghanistan’s new rulers are “steering the country toward a humanitarian, economic and human rights catastrophe.”

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‘The Taliban know they need us’: the Afghan hospitals run by women

Female medics continue to save lives, but rely on the Red Cross to get by because the Taliban cannot pay their salaries

Al Jazeera

Afghan women deplore Taliban’s new order to cover faces in public

In their latest decree, the Taliban say it is ‘required for all respectable Afghan women to wear a hijab’.

The Independent UK

Anger among Afghan women as face veil edict splits Taliban

A new Taliban decree that demands women cover up from head to toe in public, showing at most their eyes, has left many Afghans angry or fearful

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Taliban declares women and girls must cover up from head to toe in public

The Taliban in Afghanistan have instructed that women cover up in public from head to toe, including their faces. NPR correspondent Diaa Hadid has been talking to women affected by the change.

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The Guardian - UK

Afghanistan face veil decree: ‘I’ve lost the right to choose my clothes’

Women say they fear going out in public despite Taliban vow to respect hard-won rights after 2021 takeover

The Guardian - UK

Taliban orders all women to wear the burqa in latest blow to freedom

Decree making male relatives enforcers follows Afghanistan ban on girls’ education and travel, drawing global condemnation

The Guardian - UK

Taliban order all Afghan women to cover their faces in public

Decree forces male relatives to police law by making them liable to fines or prison for breaches

Tribune News Service

Taliban orders women to wear burqa in public again

Afghanistan’s Taliban-led government ordered women to wear a burqa in public areas and government institutions, in a re-emergence of the head-to-toe covering less than a year after it took control of the country.

Daily Mirror

Taliban forces women in Afghanistan to start wearing head-to-toe burkhas again

The Taliban's U-turn on the burkha - an all-covering veil designed to hide any part of a woman's body from being on show - comes amid an escalation of restrictions against the rights of women in Afghanistan's public spaces

Evening Standard

UK hits back after Taliban orders women to wear head burka public

The move to require burkas sees similar restrictions imposed to those on women during the Taliban’s previous hardline rule between 1996 and 2001

Newslaundry

Daily Dose Ep 1040: LPG prices cross Rs 1,000, Taliban’s burqa decree

Veronica Joseph brings you the news from Tamil Nadu, New Delhi and Afghanistan.

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