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Education, travel and burqas: All the rights women in Afghanistan have lost since the Taliban takeover

Woman cannot travel without a male chaperone and have been ordered to wear an all-covering burqa

The Independent UK

They must live up to their obligations: UK Government on Taliban burka order

Afghanistan’s Taliban leadership has ordered all Afghan women to wear the all-covering burka in public.

The Independent UK

Afghanistan's Taliban order women to wear burqa in public

Afghanistan’s Taliban leadership has ordered all Afghan women to wear the all-covering burqa in public

The Independent UK

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Taliban orders Afghan women to cover their faces in public

The move is one of the harshest restrictions imposed on Afghanistan’s women since the Taliban seized power last year.

Al Jazeera

Taliban Announce Women Must Cover Faces in Public, Say Burqa Is Best

The Taliban on Saturday ruled Afghan women must cover their faces, according to a decree from the group's supreme leader, an escalation of growing restrictions on women in public that is drawing a backlash from the international community and many Afghans. A spokesman for the Ministry for the Propagation of…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Taliban order Afghan women to cover faces again

Afghanistan's Taliban government ordered women on Saturday to cover their faces in public, a return to a signature policy of their past hardline rule and an escalation of restrictions that are causing anger at home and abroad.

Reuters

Taliban orders Afghan women to cover faces in public

The Taliban on Saturday ruled that Afghan women must cover their faces, according to a decree from the group’s supreme leader, an escalation of growing restrictions on women that is drawing backlash from the international community and many Afghans.

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Prosecutor who put Taliban behind bars fears for his life as UK ‘turns its back’ on Afghans

Former director of prosecution ‘terrified’ in immigration limbo in Pakistan

The Independent UK

‘The best day’: Afghan women’s football team find back of the net and rediscover joy

The group of women are finally back where they belong on a pitch and enjoying their football after resettling in Melbourne

The Guardian - AU

UK not delivering on pledge to help Afghans under Taliban threat, ex-Army boss claims

UK general brands Afghan resettlement programme an ‘appalling situation’

The Independent UK

Afghans who want teen girls back in school have new allies: Taliban-affiliated clerics

For 9 months, teen girls have been pretty much unable to go to school. Protests have been shut down. Now clerics — including some affiliated with the Taliban – are urging an end to the school ban.

WEKU

Heavy Rain and Floods in Afghanistan Kill 22, Destroy Hundreds of Homes

Heavy rain and flooding has killed 22 people, destroyed hundreds of homes and damaged crops in Afghanistan, which is already facing a humanitarian crisis, a disaster management official said on Thursday.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Heavy rain and floods in Afghanistan kill 22, destroy hundreds of homes

Reuters

Witness for Ben Roberts-Smith denies emails show the pair colluded to make sure their evidence aligned

A former SAS patrol commander denies colluding with Ben Roberts-Smith after the pair exchanged emails before they were due to submit outlines of their evidence for the war veteran's defamation trial.

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AOC-sponsored Afghan families still waiting for humanitarian visas from Australian government

After fleeing Afghanistan, the five families — which have been sponsored by the Australian Olympic Committee — are desperately waiting for the Australian government to issue the visas.

Al Jazeera

A letter to … the Taliban men who drove me from my home

‘The faces familiar to me, of my family and my friends, are left behind in the country that you took from us.’

The Hindu

End of the age of soft power?

The 21st century was to be driven by the win-win use of soft power — but in the last few years global leaders have rejected it in favour of a ‘might is right’ attitude

The Independent UK

His bus has been shot and blown up but this US veteran is still crossing Ukraine, saving lives

EXCLUSIVE: Project Dynamo’s cofounder Bryan Stern tells Rachel Sharp about both the heartbreaking goodbyes and the emotional reunions as he carries out dangerous rescue missions to evacuate people out of Ukraine

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Daily Mirror

Brit in Afghanistan thanked Taliban for 'amazing' meal before getting food poisoning

The 22-year-old boasted to his Twitter followers about all the "amazing" food he bagged for just £20 before falling ill a few hours later

The Guardian - UK

‘I am sure they will change’: Taliban swap guns for pens to learn about human rights

Young men who have spent most of their lives in combat are learning how to behave with civilians as the Taliban transitions from fighting to governing

The Independent UK

As Iran-Taliban tensions rise, Afghan migrants in tinderbox

Afghanistan's border with Iran has become a lifeline for desperate refugees after the country plunged into economic crisis following the withdrawal of American and NATO troops last summer

The Independent UK

Muslims mark Eid al-Fitr holiday with joy, worry

Muslims are observing the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Fitr, typically marked with communal prayers, celebratory gatherings around festive meals and new clothes

Al Jazeera

Eid brings little joy for millions of Afghans facing hunger

Afghans struggle to put food on the table as the humanitarian situation continues to remain grim.

The Guardian - UK

Judge in Afghanistan ‘backstabbed’ by UK government’s refusal of sanctuary

Officials say man in hiding who helped prosecute terrorists does not meet relocation criteria, despite high court ruling in his favour

Reuters

Second bombing in two days in Kabul on eve of Eid al-Fitr holiday

A bomb blast in a passenger van in Kabul on Saturday killed at least one person, officials said, in the second explosion in the Afghan capital in two days, as security concerns rise on the eve of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr.

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