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China’s Foreign Minister Makes Surprise Stop in Afghanistan

China’s foreign minister made a surprise visit Thursday in Afghanistan's capital, meeting with the country's new Taliban rulers — even as the international community fumes over the former insurgents’ broken promise to reopen schools to girls beyond the sixth grade. According to the official Bakhtar News Agency, Wang Yi was…

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China Top Diplomat in India for First Visit since Border Clash

China's foreign minister was in India on Friday, officials said, his first visit since a deadly clash on the Asian giants' disputed Himalayan border in 2020. The high-altitude brawl in June 2020 left 20 Indian soldiers and at least four Chinese troops dead, and led to a sharp deterioration in…

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'We thought Taliban had changed': Afghan girls banned from school

Kabul (AFP) - Days after the Taliban staged a cruel U-turn on allowing Afghan girls back to school, Adeeba Haidari feels as if she is in prison.

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US, allies call on Taliban to reopen girls schools in Afghanistan

Washington (AFP) - The United States and other Western countries on Thursday condemned the Taliban's decision to shut girls secondary schools in Afghanistan just hours after reopening them, and urged the hardline Islamist movement to reverse course.

AFP

Many baffled by Taliban reneging pledge on girls' education

Aid groups, media workers and others in Afghanistan are baffled by the Taliban reneging on their pledge to allow girls to go to school beyond sixth grade

The Independent UK

After surprise stopover in Kabul, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi lands in Delhi

Visits kept secret, first such visit to Delhi after LAC standoff and PLA transgressions began in April 2020

The Hindu

Taliban vow to address 'all concerns' of China as Wang visits

Kabul (AFP) - The Taliban said Thursday they had assured Beijing's most senior diplomat about any concerns China thinks may "emerge from Afghan soil", ahead of a key meeting with their neighbours next week.

AFP

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China's foreign minister makes surprise stop in Afghanistan

China's foreign minister made a surprise stop in Kabul to meet Afghanistan's Taliban rulers even as the international community fumes over the hardline movement's broken promise a day earlier to open schools to girls beyond Grade 6

The Independent UK

China's foreign minister visits Afghanistan

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited Kabul on Thursday to meet his Afghan counterpart, a spokesman for Afghanistan's foreign ministry said, the highest-level visit by a Chinese official since the Taliban took power last year.

Reuters

Turkey Regrets Taliban Move to Keep High Schools Closed to Girls

Turkey regrets the Taliban’s announcement that high schools in Afghanistan would remain closed for girls, the foreign ministry said late on Wednesday, calling on the hardline group to allow education for all. The Taliban on Wednesday backtracked on their announcement that high schools would open for girls, saying they would…

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Turkey regrets Taliban move to keep high schools closed to girls

Turkey regrets the Taliban's announcement that high schools in Afghanistan would remain closed for girls, the foreign ministry said late on Wednesday, calling on the hardline Islamist group to allow education for all.

Reuters

John Cornyn digs in on claim that Judge Jackson called Bush and Rumsfeld ‘war criminals’

WASHINGTON — Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) defended his assertion that Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson called then-President George W. Bush and his Pentagon chief “war criminals,” rejecting Democrats’ contention Wednesday that he distorted her petitions on behalf of militants detained at Guantánamo Bay.

Tribune News Service

The Guardian view on Afghanistan’s struggle: it isn’t just the Taliban

Editorial: Girls’ hopes of education have been crushed again. People are fighting for basic rights and freedoms – but also for the means to survive

The Guardian - UK

Taliban orders that high schools remain closed to girls is a betrayal of commitments, U.S. says

The U.S. State Department on Wednesday said the Taliban's announcement that high schools in Afghanistan would remain closed for girls is a betrayal of public commitments to the Afghan people and international community.

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Schoolgirls in tears as Taliban breaks promise last minute to lift medieval education ban

Heartbreaking images show inconsolable Afghan schoolgirls all ready for class in their uniforms cry bitter tears after turning up only be to turned away and told to go straight home

Reuters

U.N. chief warns Afghan girls high school suspension 'deeply damaging'

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday that Taliban's decision to suspend high school for girls in Afghanistan was "a profound disappointment and deeply damaging for Afghanistan."

Evening Standard

Girls turned away from school in Afghanistan as Taliban backtracks on education pledge

The last-minute decision follows an earlier statement in the week saying ‘all students’ can come to school for the start of the new term

The Hindu

It’s a long wait for the journey back to India for stranded Afghan students

“More than 2,000 Afghan students, who are pursuing various programmes in Indian universities, are stranded in various cities of Afghanistan after the Taliban regime took control of the country”

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Danish Siddiqui: Family of slain journalist takes Taliban to ICC

Lawyer for Siddiqui family says there is sufficient evidence Indian journalist was tortured, murdered in Taliban attack.

AFP

'What have we done wrong?' Afghan school girls forced home

Kabul (AFP) - Atiya Azimi was up all night packing and repacking her bag, feverish at returning to school for the first time since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan.

Glasgow Live

Glasgow cabbie in limbo as young family stuck in Pakistan after fleeing Taliban in Afghanistan

Jan Mohammed Ahmadzai says he has received no help from the Home Office to bring them to Glasgow as part of the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme for which they are eligible.

AFP

Devastated Afghan girls leave school hours after reopening

Kabul (AFP) - Atiya Azimi was up all night packing and repacking her bag, feverish at returning to school for the first time since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan.

The Independent UK

Taliban nixes girls higher education despite earlier pledges

In a surprise decision the hardline leadership of Afghanistan’s new rulers has decided against opening educational institutions to girls beyond Grade six, a Taliban official said Wednesday on the first day of Afghanistan’s new school year

Al Jazeera

The Taliban closes Afghan girls’ schools hours after reopening

Backtracking by the Taliban means female students above the sixth grade will not be able to attend school.

AFP

Heartbreak as Afghan girls ordered home just hours after schools reopen

Kabul (AFP) - The Taliban ordered girls' secondary schools in Afghanistan to shut on Wednesday just hours after they reopened, sparking heartbreak and confusion over the policy reversal by the hardline Islamist group.

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