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Afghanistan: after a year of Taliban government, women are more oppressed than ever

The recent announcement that women and girls in Afghanistan have been banned by the Taliban government from visiting parks and gyms – even if accompanied by a male “chaperone” – has understandably been greeted with outrage.

The Conversation

Afghans are bracing for a winter many fear will be even worse than the last

At World Food Programme distribution sites, "Everybody tells us, 'Last winter was difficult, but we have no idea how we will get through the coming winter,'" says a WFP spokesperson in Kabul.

WEKU

About 4,000 Afghan children still living in hotels in UK after Taliban takeover

The Home Office published updated figures on Thursday.

The Independent UK

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Desperate parents sedating crying children and selling own organs in Afghanistan

Reporting just outside Herat, Afghanistan, the BBC found families giving their children Xanax to stop them crying and to help them sleep at night while others confessed to selling their kidneys

Daily Mirror

Mine company's blasting of rock shelters likened to Taliban

An Australian minister has likened a mining company blasting ancient rock shelters to the Taliban’s destruction of giant Buddha carvings and vowed to improve protections of Indigenous cultural heritage

The Independent UK

A year after 27 drowned crossing the channel, migrants still suffer in Calais

Asylum-seekers sleep rough, forge friendships and withstand harassment from police as they seek passage to the UK

The Guardian - UK

UK aid to Afghanistan entrenched corruption and injustice, report finds

Government watchdog says £3.5bn aid in 20 years to 2020 failed to achieve aim of stabilising Afghan government

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Taliban lash 14 people in front of hundreds of spectators at Afghanistan football stadium

They were being punished for “sins including adultery, robbery and other forms of corruption”, said the Afghan Supreme Court

Evening Standard

A year in, the Taliban escalates its war against girls' education in Afghanistan

BAMIAN, Afghanistan — When Zahra Wafa thinks about what it took to put her daughters through school, her face hardens.

Los Angeles Times

Taliban court lashes 14 in latest shift to corporal punishments

Fourteen people were lashed in a football stadium in eastern Afghanistan, the Taliban-led Supreme Court said on Wednesday, in the latest sign of the ruling group applying its strict interpretation of sharia (Islamic law) to criminal justice.

Reuters

Echo 3 review – a hostage drama that’s like Band of Brothers meets EastEnders

From the writer of The Hurt Locker, this show about a rescue mission to save a loved one from Colombian guerrillas stars two buff bros who channel Phil and Grant Mitchell

The Guardian - UK

Brit 'danger tourist' illegally crosses borders to see girlfriend then is dumped on phone

Miles Routledge has made it his mission to visit the most dangerous places in the world, but faced heartbreak on his latest 10-day trip which saw him crossing "multiple illegal borders"

Daily Mirror

Dutch court rules 2007 Dutch bombing in Afghanistan was illegal

A Dutch court ruled on Wednesday the shelling by Dutch soldiers of a residential complex in the Afghan province of Uruzgan in June 2007 was illegal, adding the Netherlands should compensate the victims.

Reuters

Nine women lashed for 'adultery' by Taliban as Afghanistan returns to brutal sharia law

The Taliban's supreme court spokesman revealed that nine women were among the 19 people lashed for adultery in the first major signs the ruling Afghan regime is again applying its strict interpretation of sharia to criminal justice

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Critics lament exclusion of Afghanistan from COP27

Call for funding grows for diplomatically isolated Afghanistan, which is facing disasters because of climate change.

Salon

Afghan teen survived Taliban but not US

“To survive war then come to America to be buried?”

Reuters

Blast in Afghan capital kills two

Two people were killed in an explosion that struck a car in the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday, police said.

Reuters

Taliban-led Supreme Court says 19 people lashed in northeastern Afghanistan

Nineteen people were publicly lashed in northeastern Afghanistan this month, the Taliban supreme court said on Monday, among the first major signs of the ruling group applying its strict interpretation of sharia (Islamic law) to criminal justice.

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Pakistan reopens border crossing with Afghanistan after shooting

Key crossing at Chaman reopened a week after Afghan gunman killed a Pakistani security guard there.

Reuters

Swiss-based trust fund for frozen Afghan assets meets in Geneva

The board of a Swiss-based trust fund managing some $3.5 billion in frozen assets seized after the Taliban took power last year is meeting in Geneva for the first time on Monday, a Swiss government spokesperson confirmed.

Los Angeles Times

Afghanistan’s traditional delicacy chainaki and a master chef endure in Kabul

KABUL, Afghanistan — There's a comforting immutability to the way Waheed Merzazadah prepares for his day's work: the methodical cutting of the sheep carcasses down to the right size, the readying of the vegetables and spices, the patient poring over of his well-worn collection of chainaks, or teapots. Watching him…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Red Cross: Afghans Will Struggle for Their Lives This Winter

More Afghans will be struggling for survival as living conditions deteriorate in the year ahead, a top official of the International Committee of the Red Cross said in an interview, as the country braces for its second winter under Taliban rule. The group’s seizure of power in August 2021 sent…

The Independent UK

Red Cross: Afghans will struggle for their lives this winter

A senior official with the International Committee of the Red Cross says that Afghans will struggle for their lives as the country braces for its second winter under Taliban rule and faces plummeting humanitarian conditions

Los Angeles Times

With the US out of Afghanistan, China comes calling

KABUL, Afghanistan — The first thing you see walking out of Kabul's airport is a billboard advertising Chinatown, which, if you visit, turns out to be a plain, off-white trio of 10-story towers in the Afghan capital's Taimani district. On the ground floor are shops selling Chinese products, including lights,…

Daily Mirror

'Qatar is a tour de farce in the world of football and unsuitable for a tournament'

There is currently no excitement or festivities surrounding the World Cup in Qatar and the country is only hosting it because it offered the most money, writes Mark Steel

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