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Editorial: A good guy without a gun: How Richard Fierro became the hero of Colorado Springs’ Club Q massacre

In Colorado Springs on Saturday night, Richard Fierro, a U.S. Army vet who’d deployed three times to Iraq and once to Afghanistan, went to an LGBTQ nightclub with his wife to celebrate a friend’s birthday. There was dancing and a drag show.

Tribune News Service

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

Rishi Sunak faces Tory backlash over record immigration figures

Numbers swollen by humanitarian arrivals from Ukraine, Afghanistan and Hong Kong

The Independent UK

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Iran’s Queiroz tells media: ‘Why don’t you ask Southgate about Afghanistan?’

The Iran coach, Carlos Queiroz, was unhappy with his players being asked political questions before their World Cup game against Wales

The Guardian - UK

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

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

The Guardian - UK

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

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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

Deadly 2007 Dutch attack on Afghan compound illegal, court rules

A court in the Netherlands orders the country to compensate families of the 20 victims killed in the air strike.

Al Jazeera

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

Hero veteran reveals how he tackled Colorado Springs gunman with help from trans woman in heels

Richard Fierro, a veteran of four tours to Iraq and Afghanistan, beat the suspect with his own handgun while a trans woman stomped on him

The Independent 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

How two Australian soldiers became unwitting poster boys for Russian mercenary Wagner Group's Ukraine recruitment drive

On a spring day in 2013, two Australian soldiers had their photograph taken in Afghanistan. Now the photo has resurfaced in a scheme to recruit mercenaries for Russia's invasion of Ukraine — all without the soldiers' knowledge.

ABC News

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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New immigrants and refugees in Philadelphia get first taste of Thanksgiving

PHILADELPHIA — Abdullah Amarkhail left everything behind in his home country of Afghanistan — his family, his friends, his career.

Al Jazeera

Critics lament exclusion of Afghanistan from COP27

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

The Independent UK

Hero reveals how he tackled Colorado Springs gunman with help from trans woman in heels: ‘I just knew I had to take him down’

Richard Fierro, a veteran of four tours to Iraq and Afghanistan, beat the suspect with his own handgun while a trans woman stomped on him

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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Al Jazeera

Pakistan reopens border crossing with Afghanistan after shooting

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

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…

France 24

Iran protests: 'This comes down to patriarchy and power'

When nine-year-old Naza Alakija left Iran with her mother, they were stopped by morality police because she was not wearing a hijab. The experience made her aware of her body at a young age. As an adult, Alakija founded the SAGE foundation, an NGO dedicated to education, women's empowerment and…

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,…

The Guardian - AU

Sayed fled Afghanistan, found safety in Australia and built a life. Then it was snatched away

Refugee was turned away from citizenship ceremony and became trapped in bureaucratic nightmare thanks to authorities’ mistrust of Afghan identity documents

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