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Freezing weather kills 157 in Afghanistan as country faces coldest winter in 15 years

Afghanistan is facing its coldest winter in 15 years, with temperatures dropping as low as -34 degrees Celsius, as the death doubles in less than a week

Daily Mirror

Scores of people die as wave of freezing weather sweeps across Afghanistan

Extreme weather compounds a humanitarian crisis in poverty-stricken Afghanistan, leaving scores of people and vital livestock dead.

ABC News

International Day of Education: I attend a secret school in Afghanistan

Matiullah Wesa set up the voluntary organisation Pen Path in 2009.

The Independent UK

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UN Aid Chief Raises Women’s Rights Concerns with Taliban in Afghan Capital

The United Nations' aid chief visited Kabul on Monday and raised concerns over women's education and work with the Taliban administration's acting minister of foreign affairs, an Afghan ministry statement said. The Taliban-run administration last month ordered NGOs not to allow most female employees to work, prompting many aid agencies…

Asharq Al-Awsat

U.N. aid chief raises women's rights concerns with Taliban in Afghan capital

Reuters

A Connecticut veteran is evacuating Afghanistan refugees more than year after headlines faded away

HARTFORD, Conn. — Alex Plitsas never gives up.

Tribune News Service

Asylum seeker who stabbed man to death in e-scooter row previously convicted of murder in Serbia

Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai had also been convicted of drug-dealing in Italy

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Asylum seeker who stabbed man previously convicted of murder in Serbia

Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai had also been convicted of drug-dealing in Italy.

The Independent UK

Tens of thousands of Afghans waiting to hear if they will be relocated to UK – 17 months after Taliban takeover

The backlog of 71,000 applications is making Afghans ‘unsafe’, charities warn

The Independent UK

Afghanistan women's cricketers resettled in Australia feeling unsupported by international cricket bosses

Most of the women who should be playing cricket for Afghanistan have resettled in Australia since the Taliban took over the country, but they are disappointed by a lack of support from the International Cricket Council.

ABC News

UN envoy says ‘progress’ made on Afghan women’s rights

Amina Mohammed, who held talks with the Taliban tells Al Jazeera some progress made but much remains to be done.

Al Jazeera

Afghan soldier seeks asylum after arrest at US-Mexico border

An Afghan soldier seeking asylum in the U.S. has been jailed at an immigrant detention center in Texas since he was arrested trying to cross the Mexico border

The Independent UK

Former Hazara refugee and photographer connects with cameleer descendants in Australian outback

Connecting with the descendants of Australia's Afghan cameleers helps Muzafar Ali understand where he fits in his new home.

ABC News

UN says Taliban divided on appeal to restore women's rights

A delegation led by the highest-ranking woman at the United Nations has urged the Taliban during a four-day visit to Afghanistan to reverse their crackdown on women and girls

The Independent UK

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Reuters

Top diplomats, former UN officials seek to fix 'Wild West' of peacemaking

A group of diplomats, former statesmen and U.N. officials began seeking political backing this week for a peacemaking framework to shape new standards for resolving conflicts that they say can avoid past mistakes such as in Mali and Afghanistan.

Reuters

Deputy U.N. chief pushes women's rights during visit to Taliban heartland

U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed expressed alarm to Taliban officials in Kandahar over violations of women's rights in Afghanistan, the United Nations said on Friday after she made a rare visit to the Taliban's southern heartland.

Foreign Policy

Taliban ‘Men-Only’ Aid Edict Divides Charity Community

The World Food Program seems poised to carry on, driving NGOs to call it quits on aid.

Wales Online

Prince Harry’s trips to Wales where he saw ‘dark side of human nature’ and needed an ambulance for injury

"When the drill was "over", some guys couldn't turn it off. They kept stabbing and stabbing"

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The Independent UK

Two-thirds of Britons say Prince Harry damaged national security by revealing Taliban kills

Exclusive polling finds widespread concern over duke’s ‘Spare’ revelations

Tribune News Service

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‘Welcome Corps’ will allow Americans to privately sponsor refugees in US

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Prince Harry's portrayal of war in 'Spare' is making headlines – but combat decision-making is more complex than his words suggest

The last few weeks have seen a steady stream of news related to the new memoir written by Prince Harry, titled “Spare.” While much of the media attention has focused on his relationship with King Charles; Prince William; Catherine, princess of Wales; and Camilla, the queen consort, it is his…

The Independent UK

Ministers urged to safeguard aid to Afghanistan after ban on female aid workers

Labour MP Dan Jarvis asked an urgent question on the issue in the Commons asking for confirmation there will be no cuts.

Al Jazeera

Dozens of people killed as cold wave sweeps Afghanistan

About 70,000 cattle have perished in a week as many provinces witness deep freeze amid a humanitarian crisis.

ABC News

What it's like for persecuted minorities to live under Taliban rule in Afghanistan

For many people living in Afghanistan, life is a daily struggle. There's no work and minorities like Fatima and her family live in fear.

Al Jazeera

Senior UN officials in Afghanistan to press for women’s rights

The delegation includes Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed and Sima Bahous, executive secretary of UN Women.

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