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It is the first time the Taliban is attending the talks but female representatives from Afghanistan have been excluded.

The Taliban government, which has imposed severe restrictions on women since seizing power in 2021 that the UN has described as a system of "gender apartheid", will send its first delegation to the third round of talks on the Afghan crisis starting in Qatar on Sunday.

The MotoGP Kazakhstan Grand Prix will not take place and a second round will be held in Qatar instead, Motorsport.com understands. The race at the Sokol circuit has been in doubt from the moment it entered the calendar. Initially, the event was due to debut last year, but its cancellation was…

The United Nations' top official in Afghanistan is defending the failure to include Afghan women in the upcoming first meeting between the Taliban and envoys from 22 countries