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Taliban warn women can't take entry exams at universities

The Taliban are doubling down on their ban on women’s education, reinforcing in a message to private universities that Afghan women are barred from taking university entry exams

The Independent UK

Afghan female students not allowed to sit university entrance exam - Taliban ministry

The Taliban-run Ministry of Higher Education ordered private universities in Afghanistan not to allow female students to sit university entrance exams next month, underscoring its policy to restrict women from tertiary education.

Reuters

Afghan cartoonist, now a refugee, sheds light on plight of women

Sayed Muhammad Hussainy says it is his duty to help strengthen the voices of women living under the Taliban’s rule.

Al Jazeera

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Afghan soldier seeking US asylum hopes for 'American dream'

After being held in detention in Texas for months during his legal fight to remain in the U.S., Afghan soldier Abdul Wasi Safi is now a free man as he works to secure asylum in America

The Independent UK

Afghan soldier says he will live the “American dream” after being released from immigration detention center

U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s office mounted pressure on several federal agencies earlier this month leading up to Abdul Wasi Safi’s release on Tuesday.

The Texas Tribune

Thousands in Afghanistan protest Koran-burning incident in Sweden

Thousands of Afghans held protests on Friday to express anger after a far-right politician publicly set fire to the Koran in Sweden last week.

Reuters

Prince Harry needs more security after saying he killed 25 Taliban, CIA official claims

In his best-selling memoir Spare, Prince Harry claimed he killed 25 Taliban fighters while serving in Afghanistan, which some fear could make him more of a target for extremists

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Meetings with Lindh prompt move to revoke convict's release

A northern Virginia man convicted nearly a decade ago of supporting the Islamic State group as a teenager has now been accused of violating his terms of release by meeting with convicted a Taliban supporter

The Independent UK

UN food agency: Afghan malnutrition rates at record high

A spokesman for the World Food Program says malnutrition rates in Afghanistan are at record highs with half the country enduring severe hunger throughout the year

The Independent UK

Prince Harry's kill count revelation could spark important discussions about war's effects on soldiers

When Prince Harry revealed in his new book, “Spare,” that he killed 25 Taliban fighters as an Apache helicopter pilot, he compared their deaths to “chess pieces removed from the board.” His comments have drawn ire from critics, such as Anas Haqqani, a member of the Haqqani Network, which is…

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Top UN woman urges Muslims: Move Taliban into 21st century

The highest-ranking woman at the United Nations says she used everything in her “toolbox” during meetings with Taliban ministers to try to reverse their crackdown on Afghan women and girls

The Independent UK

Taliban working on guidelines for women NGO workers: UN says

UN aid chief Martin Griffiths met Taliban officials in a bid to push them to further relax the ban on women workers.

Al Jazeera

Charge dropped against Afghan soldier seeking asylum in US

Federal prosecutors have dropped an immigration charge against an Afghan soldier who’s been detained for months after he was arrested trying to cross the Mexico border in an attempt to seek asylum in the U.S. as he fled the Taliban in his home country

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Top U.N. officials seek to 'water down' bans on women in Afghanistan

The United Nations is pushing the Taliban administration in Afghanistan for more exemptions to its ban on most female aid workers, top U.N. officials said on Wednesday, while also expressing concern that foreign women working for international organizations and embassies could next be targeted.

Daily Mirror

Freezing weather kills 157 in Afghanistan as country faces coldest winter in 15 years

Afghanistan is facing its coldest winter in 15 years, with temperatures dropping as low as -34 degrees Celsius, as the death doubles in less than a week

ABC News

Scores of people die as wave of freezing weather sweeps across Afghanistan

Extreme weather compounds a humanitarian crisis in poverty-stricken Afghanistan, leaving scores of people and vital livestock dead.

The Independent UK

International Day of Education: I attend a secret school in Afghanistan

Matiullah Wesa set up the voluntary organisation Pen Path in 2009.

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UN Aid Chief Raises Women’s Rights Concerns with Taliban in Afghan Capital

The United Nations' aid chief visited Kabul on Monday and raised concerns over women's education and work with the Taliban administration's acting minister of foreign affairs, an Afghan ministry statement said. The Taliban-run administration last month ordered NGOs not to allow most female employees to work, prompting many aid agencies…

Reuters

U.N. aid chief raises women's rights concerns with Taliban in Afghan capital

Tribune News Service

A Connecticut veteran is evacuating Afghanistan refugees more than year after headlines faded away

HARTFORD, Conn. — Alex Plitsas never gives up.

Evening Standard

Asylum seeker who stabbed man to death in e-scooter row previously convicted of murder in Serbia

Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai had also been convicted of drug-dealing in Italy

The Independent UK

Asylum seeker who stabbed man previously convicted of murder in Serbia

Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai had also been convicted of drug-dealing in Italy.

The Independent UK

Tens of thousands of Afghans waiting to hear if they will be relocated to UK – 17 months after Taliban takeover

The backlog of 71,000 applications is making Afghans ‘unsafe’, charities warn

ABC News

Afghanistan women's cricketers resettled in Australia feeling unsupported by international cricket bosses

Most of the women who should be playing cricket for Afghanistan have resettled in Australia since the Taliban took over the country, but they are disappointed by a lack of support from the International Cricket Council.

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