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Rasooli, Safi named in Afghanistan's squad for T20 World Cup

KABUL: Batter Darwish Rasooli and pacer Salim Safi were on Thursday picked in Afghanistan's 15-man squad for the T20 World Cup in Australia.

The Times of India

US seeks to sidestep Taliban with $3.5 billion Afghan aid plan

The U.S. will put $3.5 billion in Afghanistan’s central bank reserves under the control of a Swiss-based oversight board to pay for limited financial services in the country while ensuring the Taliban regime doesn’t get access to the money, the U.S. Treasury Department said.

Tribune News Service

Meet the teenage Afghan refugee who has found a new home on the wickets of Weston-super-mare

Uphill Castle CC have helped Imran Oriykhail settle in Somerset after fleeing Afghanistan earlier this year

Bristol Post

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Saving Nezam From the Taliban

Green Beret Scott Mann suffered severe trauma following his three tours in Afghanistan. He never wanted to have anything to do with country again. Then his friend Nezam called to say that his life was in danger.

Reason

US sets up Afghan relief fund with frozen central bank money

The U.S. and Swiss governments and Afghan economics experts say they'll transfer $3.5 billion in frozen funds from Afghanistan’s central bank to use for the country’s people as hunger grips every province there

The Independent UK

UK inviting North Korea to send envoy to Queen Elizabeth's funeral - source

Britain is inviting a representative from North Korea to attend Queen Elizabeth's funeral on Monday, but Afghanistan, Syria and Venezuela will not be given an invite, a foreign office source said on Wednesday.

Reuters

Three more countries NOT invited to Queen's funeral - and some will just send ambassadors

A total of six countries have not made the invitation list for Queen Elizabeth II's funeral on Monday, including Afghanistan, Syria and Venezuela, as inside sources confirmed North Korea and Iran will be invited at ambassadorial level

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U.S. to move $3.5 billion in Afghan central bank assets to Swiss-based trust

The United States on Wednesday announced that it would transfer $3.5 billion in Afghan central bank assets into a new Swiss-based trust fund that will be shielded from the Taliban and used to help stabilize Afghanistan's collapsed economy.

Reuters

For India, the buzzword now is ‘all-alignment’

Its participation in the SCO summit is a clear signal of pursuing multi-alignment with its partners worldwide

The Hindu

Iran may urge India to restart oil import

Chabahar, regional connectivity and Afghanistan on agenda for talks on sidelines of SCO summit

The Hindu

Prince Harry hits back over funeral ban ‘military service not determined by uniform’

The Duke of Sussex served two tours of duty in Afghanistan

Evening Standard

Prince Harry blocked from wearing uniform while mourning Queen but Prince Andrew allowed

The Duke of Sussex has been denied the chance to wear military uniform as he mourns the Queen, even though his disgraced uncle the Duke of York will be permitted to do so at the lying in state vigil. Harry, who saw action on the front line during two tours…

Evening Standard

Afghanistan: Underground radio station broadcasts lessons to girls stuck at home

Since the Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, most girls have been banned from going to high school. But some women are resisting, like Hamida Aman, founder of Radio Begum. Against the rules, she has set up an underground school within her radio station. The girls, aged…

France 24

Editorial: Unfinished business: US must do more to welcome Afghan refugees

In the year since the botched U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, tens of thousands of Afghans have been forced to suffer through another administrative disaster, this one unfolding mostly in drab D.C. office buildings via mountains of monotonous paperwork.

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The Times of India

Three things Sri Lanka got right that Team India will be looking to improve on ahead of the T20 World Cup

NEW DELHI: A prolonged political and economic crisis at home, a below-par run on the cricket field in the last five-six years and a humiliating eight-wicket defeat against Afghanistan in the tournament opener - Not too many people would have bet on Sri Lanka, going through one of the most…

USA Today Sports Media Group

Photos: Dana White’s Contender Series 54 weigh-ins and faceoffs

Check out these photos from the Dana White's Contender Series 54 weigh-ins and faceoffs in Las Vegas.

Al Jazeera

UN expert decries ‘systematic’ attacks on Afghan Shia groups

UN expert warns attacks against Hazaras, other Shia Muslims in Afghanistan bear ‘hallmarks of international crimes’.

Reuters

U.N. says three Afghan female staff temporarily detained by Taliban

The United Nations' Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA) on Monday said three of its female Afghan employees had been temporarily detained by Taliban security agents and called on the group to stop intimidation of its local female staff.

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Reuters

U.N. human rights expert decries 'descent towards authoritarianism' in Afghanistan

A U.N. expert on Monday said that human rights had deteriorated under the Taliban, describing a "descent towards authoritarianism" and calling for radical changes.

Radio France Internationale

Paris Perspective #33: Global crises and the International Rescue Committee - David Miliband

In this edition of Paris Perspective, RFI's David Coffey meets former UK foreign secretary and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, David Miliband, to discuss the crises the world is facing in 2022 and what his NGO is doing to help millions of refugees and internally displaced.

The Times of India

Afghanistan fans celebrate Sri Lanka's win over Pakistan in Asia Cup final

KABUL: Following Sri Lanka's Asia Cup win, people in Afghanistan took to the streets to celebrate the sixth title win of the island nation, which is currently going through severe economic crisis.

Bangkok Post

Afghan humanitarian crisis widens

One year after the appalling collapse of Afghanistan in August last year into the hands of the Taliban insurgents, the humanitarian crisis in that beleaguered South Asian country has gone from bad to worse.

Manchester Evening News

The 29 forgotten heroes of our country - and the wrong that Salford's putting right

Their names are not carved on the city's Cenotaphs like their brothers in arms who fell in the First and Second World Wars. But they too paid the ultimate price for serving their country.

Asharq Al-Awsat

What Is Left of the War on Terror?

Can three planes sum up a portion of history and the future? It seems that this has already happened. While two of these planes hit the World Trade Center in New York on 9/11, the third took off around twenty years later, departing from Afghanistan as desperate Afghans chased it,…

The Independent UK

Biden to honor 9/11 victims as shadow of Afghan war looms

President Joe Biden will mark the 21st anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks at the Pentagon

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