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Australian spies helped Afghanistan exit

Australian Secret Intelligence Service director-general Paul Symon has delivered an address to mark the 70th anniversary of the agency.

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Former elite soldier rejects claims Ben Roberts-Smith kicked Afghan man over a cliff

A former elite soldier codenamed Person 11, called as a witness by Ben Roberts-Smith in his defamation case, rejects allegations the war veteran kicked an unarmed Afghan man over a cliff during a mission in 2012.

ABC News

New life, new struggles: Afghans still adjusting to US

For many of the Afghans evacuated to the United States last August, their journey remains very much a work in progress

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U.S. says it will increase pressure on Taliban if it does not reverse decisions on women, girls

The United States will take steps to increase pressure on Afghanistan's Taliban government to reverse some of its recent decisions restricting the rights of women and girls if the hardline group shows no sign of rescinding the actions on its own.

Reuters

LA Times foreign correspondent and photojournalist Marcus Yam wins Pulitzer Prize for work in Afghanistan

LOS ANGELES — Marcus Yam, a Los Angeles Times journalist with a warrior’s courage and a poet’s heart, won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography Monday for his poignant and searing pictures of last summer’s fall of Kabul, Afghanistan, to Taliban fighters.

Los Angeles Times

Red Cross chief on Iran visit talks Afghans' plight

Tehran (AFP) - The head of the Red Cross on Monday said he discussed in Iran the plight of Afghan migrants who fled their country after the Taliban took power last year.

AFP

Dear Donald Trump: America is not OK

Donald Trump keeps writing to me. Yelling at the keyboard is unproductive, so I'm writing back

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Anger in Afghanistan as some women defy Taliban full burka order

Not all Afghan women are willing to obey the latest order from the Taliban to wear the full-length burka and veil.

ABC News

Norway slams Afghan Taliban edict demanding women cover up

Norway has slammed the latest Afghan Taliban edict demanding women cover up head to toe in public and warned that Afghanistan’s new rulers are “steering the country toward a humanitarian, economic and human rights catastrophe.”

The Independent UK

Afghan students run underground book club to keep dreams alive

A group of students runs the club in Kabul to learn, read and write their own stories amid expanding Taliban curbs.

Al Jazeera

‘The Taliban know they need us’: the Afghan hospitals run by women

Female medics continue to save lives, but rely on the Red Cross to get by because the Taliban cannot pay their salaries

The Guardian - UK

EU should seize Russian reserves to rebuild Ukraine, Borrell says -FT

The European Union should consider seizing frozen Russian foreign exchange reserves to help pay for the cost of rebuilding Ukraine after the war, the bloc's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said in an interview with the Financial Times.

Reuters

Afghan women deplore Taliban’s new order to cover faces in public

In their latest decree, the Taliban say it is ‘required for all respectable Afghan women to wear a hijab’.

Al Jazeera

Anger among Afghan women as face veil edict splits Taliban

A new Taliban decree that demands women cover up from head to toe in public, showing at most their eyes, has left many Afghans angry or fearful

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Taliban declares women and girls must cover up from head to toe in public

The Taliban in Afghanistan have instructed that women cover up in public from head to toe, including their faces. NPR correspondent Diaa Hadid has been talking to women affected by the change.

AFP

Afghan women defiant but feel 'imprisoned' by order to cover faces

Kabul (AFP) - Women in Afghanistan expressed defiance on Sunday after the Taliban issued a directive ordering them to cover fully in public, including their faces, or stay indoors, saying the change would effectively leave them "imprisoned".

The Guardian - UK

Afghanistan face veil decree: ‘I’ve lost the right to choose my clothes’

Women say they fear going out in public despite Taliban vow to respect hard-won rights after 2021 takeover

ABC News

Ben Roberts-Smith defamation case focuses on who shot dog as two witnesses recant evidence

The identity of a soldier who shot a dog and whether he was present on a mission when an Afghan man was allegedly shot dead was at the heart of Ben Roberts-Smith's defamation case this week.

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The Guardian - UK

Taliban orders all women to wear the burqa in latest blow to freedom

Decree making male relatives enforcers follows Afghanistan ban on girls’ education and travel, drawing global condemnation

AFP

Taliban order Afghan women to cover faces in public

Kabul (AFP) - The Taliban on Saturday imposed some of the harshest restrictions on Afghanistan's women since seizing power, ordering them to cover fully -- including their faces -- in public, ideally with the traditional burqa.

The Guardian - UK

Taliban order all Afghan women to cover their faces in public

Decree forces male relatives to police law by making them liable to fines or prison for breaches

Tribune News Service

Taliban orders women to wear burqa in public again

Afghanistan’s Taliban-led government ordered women to wear a burqa in public areas and government institutions, in a re-emergence of the head-to-toe covering less than a year after it took control of the country.

Daily Mirror

Taliban forces women in Afghanistan to start wearing head-to-toe burkhas again

The Taliban's U-turn on the burkha - an all-covering veil designed to hide any part of a woman's body from being on show - comes amid an escalation of restrictions against the rights of women in Afghanistan's public spaces

Evening Standard

UK hits back after Taliban orders women to wear head burka public

The move to require burkas sees similar restrictions imposed to those on women during the Taliban’s previous hardline rule between 1996 and 2001

WEKU

The Taliban orders women to wear head-to-toe clothing in public

The decree, which calls for women in Afghanistan to show only their eyes and recommends they wear the burqa, evoked similar restrictions during the Taliban's previous rule.

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