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‘Nothing short of theft’: Biden administration under fire for allocating Afghan funds to 9/11 lawsuits

White House says the move is aimed at ‘keeping them out of the hands of the Taliban and malicious actors’

The Independent UK

‘Theft’: Advocates decry US decision to withhold Afghan funds

President Biden’s move to put aside Afghan funds for 9/11 victims sets ‘problematic precedent’, advocates say.

Al Jazeera

British journalist detained in Afghanistan released by Taliban

Former BBC South Asia correspondent Andrew North has been released, the PA news agency understands.

The Independent UK

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Afghan refugees in UAE protest for third day, call for U.S. resettlement

Afghan refugees held in the United Arab Emirates for months since fleeing Afghanistan last year protested for a third day on Friday, calling for resettlement in the United States.

Reuters

Swiss group: Taliban make pledges on education, aid workers

Organizers of a closed-door conference in Switzerland attended by envoys from Afghanistan’s Taliban leadership says the delegation pledged to safeguard humanitarian aid workers, facilitate education for all Afghans, and to promote environmental protections

The Independent UK

Swiss raise rights concerns, including girls' education, with Afghan Taliban

Switzerland has raised concerns about human rights in Afghanistan, including about girls' education, in a meeting with the Taliban, a government spokesman said on Friday, as the new rulers in Kabul wrapped up a week of talks in Geneva.

Reuters

Taliban detain UNHCR staff, 2 foreign journalists in Kabul

UNHCR says the Taliban have detained two foreign journalists on assignment with the aid organization and a number of its Afghan staff in the capital, Kabul

The Independent UK

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Biden will split frozen assets between 9/11 victims, Afghan aid - Roll Call

An executive order launches a plan to divide $7 billion in foreign reserves held in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Roll Call

Afghanistan: Two foreign journalists released after detention

Two international journalists released after being detained while on assignment with UNHCR, says UN refugee agency.

Al Jazeera

Life under the Taliban: Afghan women facing hardship six months on

In this special edition, we focus on the plight of women in Afghanistan six months after the Taliban retook the country. For those women and girls left behind, many have found their lives shrunk to the four walls of their homes, either due to losing their jobs or being unable…

France 24

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.

Tribune News Service

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

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

Afghanistan is facing an extreme humanitarian crisis.

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The Independent UK

Former BBC journalist detained in Afghanistan by Taliban

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

The Guardian - US

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

Al Jazeera

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’.

The Independent UK

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

The Taliban are opposed

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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.

Daily Record

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.

The Independent UK

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

Reuters

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.

Wales Online

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

The New Daily

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.

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

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