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Mumbai: Expect poor air quality for one more day

MUMBAI: The effect of a dust storm, that emanated from the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, over Mumbai is expected to continue for at least a day. Against Saturday's air quality index (AQI) of 302, the city continued to fare poorly on Sunday with an AQI of 304, ahead of Delhi's AQI at…

The Times of India

‘Double standards’: Western coverage of Ukraine war criticised

Social media users accuse media of hypocrisy in its coverage of Russia’s war on Ukraine compared with other conflicts.

Al Jazeera

The One Armed Chef, Giles Duley: ‘Cooking was the way I found peace’

The photographer, who lost both legs and an arm in Afghanistan, on his documentary series in which he cooks with families in countries ruined by war

The Guardian - UK

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Afghan public universities reopen with gender segregated classes

Universities reopen six months after Taliban returned to power, but only a trickle of women have returned to classrooms.

Al Jazeera

Afghan universities reopen, with few women

Afghanistan’s main universities reopened on Saturday six months after the Taliban returned to power, but only a trickle of women returned to now-segregated classes.

Bangkok Post

Brit tourist in Ukraine said it's 'still safer than London or Birmingham'

Student Miles Routledge, from Birmingham, is a disaster tourist and has made his way to Ukraine amid the Russian invasion - after previously being 'evacuated' from Afghanistan

Daily Mirror

US Allows Transactions with Afghan Govt despite Sanctions

The United States on Friday issued new rules that would allow most commercial and financial transactions with Afghanistan while maintaining sanctions against the Taliban, in an effort to ease the flow of humanitarian aid and kickstart the paralyzed economy. Non-governmental organizations and financial institutions have expressed concerns about running afoul…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Afghan students return to Kabul U, but with restrictions

Students have returned to Kabul University, among Afghanistan's oldest and most revered institutions of higher education

The Independent UK

U.S. issues new general license on Afghanistan financial transactions - U.S. officials

The U.S. Treasury on Friday issued a new general license allowing international aid organizations and private firms to conduct commercial and financial transactions with Afghan government institutions.

Reuters

US allows trade with Afghanistan despite Taliban sanctions

The Biden administration is seeking to assure financial institutions and other businesses that U.S. sanctions on the Taliban aren’t intended to interfere with trade that could help Afghanistan emerge from an economic and humanitarian crisis

The Independent UK

Paralysed banking system pushing Afghanistan towards collapse - Red Cross

Afghanistan is inching closer towards economic collapse six months after the Taliban seized power, the Red Cross said on Friday, with a paralysed banking system stymieing international efforts to get financial aid into the war-ravaged country.

Reuters

UNICEF chief: Taliban committed to let girls back to school

UNICEF's top chief says the Taliban have committed to allowing Afghan girls to go to school next month

The Independent UK

College dreams dashed as young Afghan women fight to keep poverty at bay

As students return to universities across Afghanistan this month, law major Waheeda Bayat will not be among them.

Reuters

Mothers who fled Afghanistan for Philadelphia are welcoming 16 babies. They got a baby shower

PHILADELPHIA — The invitations were written in Dari, Pashto, and English.

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Fresh clashes on Pakistan-Afghanistan border kill two, wound several

Clashes between Afghan and Pakistani security forces have killed two people and wounded several in a border region of the two neighbours, officials said, the latest in a series of such skirmishes.

The Guardian - AU

Ben Roberts-Smith trial: newspapers’ lawyers deny ‘deal’ with witness to ‘steer clear’ of evidence about alleged killing

Former comrade, referred to as Person 56, has been subpoenaed to give evidence, but is seeking to be excused from appearing

The Independent UK

Paralympic skier Steve Arnold admits he had no ambitions to be an elite athlete

The 42-year-old lost both legs above the knee while serving in Afghanistan.

Wales Online

Nato allies prepare to meet after ‘cynical and brutal invasion’ of Ukraine

Russian forces launched a full-scale invasion in the early hours of Thursday, thought to be Moscow’s most aggressive action since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979

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The Independent UK

Republicans at CPAC cast blame for Russia’s Ukraine invasion – but not on Vladimir Putin

Republicans are placing blame for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on a certain commander in chief – but not the one who gave the order to attack, Andrew Feinberg writes

Asharq Al-Awsat

Putin Ignores Global Condemnation as he Unleashes Attack on Ukraine

Russia launched a wide-ranging attack on Ukraine on Thursday, hitting cities and bases with airstrikes or shelling, as civilians piled into trains and cars to flee. Ukraine's government pleaded for help as it said Russian tanks and troops rolled across the border in a “full-scale war." President Vladimir Putin ignored…

The Conversation

Afghanistan’s libraries go into blackout: ‘It is painful to see the distance between people and books grow’

“The lights are off, shelves are in disarray and dust has coated every single book,” says Zabihullah Ehsas, my longtime friend and mentor, describing the current state of Khushal Baba Ketabtun, a library we established together in 2012. Our efforts represented an attempt to address the shortage of Pashto books…

The Times of India

AFC Asian Cup Qualifiers: India clubbed with Cambodia, Afghanistan and Hong Kong

NEW DELHI: The Indian team was on Thursday drawn alongside Hong Kong, Afghanistan and Cambodia in Group D of the 2023 AFC Asian Cup final round qualifiers to be played in Kolkata in June this year.

The Guardian - AU

Ben Roberts-Smith told another soldier in Afghanistan ‘I just want to kill’, court hears

Serving officer in Australian Defence Force tells defamation trial Roberts-Smith showed photos of dead insurgents on his iPod

ABC News

Exiled from their homeland, Afghanistan's women's national team begins their journey back to international football

After escaping the Taliban last year, Afghanistan's senior women footballers are back on the training pitch, ready to return to the world game.

ABC News

Afghan refugees living in Australia on temporary visas call on government to grant them permanent protection

For the more than 10 years he's lived in Australia, Afghan refugee Abbas Haidari has been locked in a state of visa limbo that has left him unable to access permanent protection, sponsor his family or even take out a business loan. He and other advocates are calling for change.

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