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Biden to tap frozen Afghan funds for 9/11 victims, aid

President Joe Biden on Friday issued an executive order to transfer the $7 billion in Afghan central bank assets frozen in the U.S. so they can be used to compensate victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and support aid efforts in Afghanistan.

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White House confirms Biden-Putin call on Saturday – as it happened

US national security adviser urges Americans to leave Ukraine while US officials say Putin has decided to invade

The Guardian - US

Taliban release British journalist Andrew North from detention in Kabul

Journalist and several other reporters freed after being held while on assignment with UNHCR

The Guardian - UK

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Biden to split $7 billion in frozen Afghan assets between possible aid and 9/11 families

Afghanistan is facing an extreme humanitarian crisis.

Axios

Former BBC journalist detained in Afghanistan by Taliban

Andrew North, the former South Asia correspondent, has been captured along with several others.

The Independent UK

Biden releases $7bn in frozen Afghan funds to split between 9/11 families and aid

Money would go toward humanitarian efforts for Afghan people and to US victims of terrorism, keeping it out of hands of Taliban

The Guardian - US

Biden signs order to secure Afghan funds for aid, 9/11 families

The White House says the order is designed to ‘provide a path for the funds to reach the people of Afghanistan’.

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Biden to pay portion of $7bn seized from Afghanistan to 9/11 victims and families

The Taliban are opposed

The Independent UK

U.S. plans to free half of $7 billion in frozen Afghan funds for aid

The United States is seeking to free up half of the $7 billion in frozen Afghan central bank assets on U.S. soil to help the Afghan people while holding the rest to possibly satisfy terrorism-related lawsuits against the Taliban, the White House said on Friday.

Reuters

Ex-BBC journalist Andrew North 'kidnapped by Taliban' according to reports

Afghanistan's former Vice President Amrullah Saleh says nine people from western countries are among those taken by the group in the last few months.

Daily Record

Biden to split frozen Afghan funds for 9/11 victims, relief

President Joe Biden is expected to use executive authority to move some $7 billion of the Afghan central bank’s assets frozen in the American funding system to fund humanitarian relief in Afghanistan and compensate victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks

The Independent UK

Journalists working with U.N. detained in Afghanistan - UNHCR

Two journalists working with the United Nations have been detained along with several Afghan workers, the organisation's refugee agency said on Friday.

Reuters

Former BBC journalist one of nine Westerners kidnapped by Taliban, it is claimed

The reports have been made by Afghanistan's former Vice President on Twitter

Wales Online

Cindy Wockner: If only there were more great hearts and spirits in this world like ‘Detta’ Gleeson

Afghanistan, Lebanon, Africa, Libya – this was Australian nurse Bernadette 'Detta' Gleeson's turf with the Red Cross. The world is poorer for her passing.

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Daily Mirror

Ex-BBC journalist Andrew North 'kidnapped' by the Taliban according to reports

Sources say the former BBC reporter based in Afghanistan is among nine people kidnapped in recent months as the UN confirms two journalists have been detained in Kabul

The Hindu

Parliament updates | February 11, 2022

Rajya Sabha discussed Union Budget; Lok Sabha discussed PMAY-G, Anganwadi workers and private members' business.

The Guardian - AU

Ben Roberts-Smith called alleged killing of unarmed Afghan teenager ‘beautiful thing’, court hears

Roberts-Smith has said in previous evidence the account of the alleged killing was ‘baseless’ and could not have happened

Axios

Biden praised for Ukraine strategy by Republicans, establishment

Many of the same Republicans and columnists blasted Biden for his Afghanistan withdrawal.

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Exclusive-U.N. aims to launch new Afghanistan cash route in February: U.N. note

The United Nations aims to kickstart this month a system to swap millions of aid dollars for Afghan currency in a plan to stem humanitarian and economic crises and bypass blacklisted Taliban leaders, according to an internal U.N. note seen by Reuters.

The Independent UK

Swiss envoy says visiting Taliban interested in dialogue

A top Swiss diplomat who has met with a delegation from Afghanistan’s Taliban leadership says it expressed an interest in dialogue with the international community and realized “that they must take the first step” to unblock more aid desperately needed in the war-battered country

The Independent UK

UK officials talk to Taliban about Afghanistan humanitarian crisis

The UK does not recognise the Taliban regime.

Reuters

Afghan refugees in UAE protest months-long wait for resettlement

Hundreds of Afghans have launched a rare protest at a United Arab Emirates facility where they have been housed since fleeing their homeland last year, holding banners pleading for freedom and demanding to be sent to the United States to be resettled.

Dynamite News

WHO chief, Taliban delegation discuss 'dire' health crisis in Afghanistan

World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday said that he met the 10-member Taliban delegation headed by health minister Qalander Ebad and discussed the "dire" health and humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.

The Hindu

Special relationship with Afghan people, UNSC resolution to continue to guide Afghan policy: India

Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan said this in Rajya Sabha

The Guardian - UK

‘We have never given up’: how Afghan women are demanding their education under the Taliban

Since recapturing Afghanistan, the Taliban have largely if inconsistently closed down girls’ schooling – but have found a new generation ready to fight for the right to study

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