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Taliban have detained 29 women and their families in Kabul, says US envoy

Report by senior diplomat Rina Amiri raises concerns about number of ‘unjust detentions’ in Afghanistan

The Guardian - UK

Six months after the fall of Kabul, Afghan families reflect on the road that led them to Perth

Ali Rahmani still cannot believe his family made it out of Afghanistan when they were forced to flee the Taliban. Six months later, they could not be more grateful to call Perth home, but memories of their homeland will always be tinged with trauma.

ABC News

Government plans to send Hazara asylum seeker back to Afghanistan may face high court challenge

Immigration minister Alex Hawke argued the initial decision to send the asylum seeker back to Afghanistan should be upheld regardless of Taliban rule

The Guardian - AU

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Afghans Protest US Order to Give $3.5B to 9/11 Victims

Demonstrators in Afghanistan’s capital Saturday condemned President Joe Biden’s order freeing up $3.5 billion in Afghan assets held in the US for families of America’s 9/11 victims — saying the money belongs to Afghans. Protesters who gathered outside Kabul's grand Eid Gah mosque asked America for financial compensation for the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Afghan central bank says U.S. plan for frozen funds an 'injustice'

Afghanistan's central bank on Saturday criticised Washington's plan to use half the bank's $7 billion in frozen assets on U.S. soil for humanitarian aid and set aside the rest to possibly satisfy lawsuits over the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

Reuters

India signs MoU to hand over wheat to WFP in Kandahar

First aid convoy through Pakistan expected this month.

The Hindu

Afghans protest US order to give $3.5 B to 9/11 victims

Demonstrators in Afghanistan’s capital have condemned President Joe Biden’s order freeing up $3.5 billion in Afghan assets held in the U.S. for families of America’s 9/11 victims

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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

Afghan woman protester detained by Taliban freed: activist

Kabul (AFP) - An Afghan woman protester who went missing after taking part in a rally against the Taliban had been detained by the hardline Islamists for several weeks before being released Friday, a relative and an activist said.

AFP

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

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

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AFP

Biden seeks to split Afghan assets between aid and 9/11 victims

Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden seized $7 billion in assets belonging to the previous Afghan government Friday, aiming to split the funds between victims of the 9/11 attacks and desperately needed aid for post-war Afghanistan.

Roll Call

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.

Al Jazeera

Afghanistan: Two foreign journalists released after detention

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

France 24

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…

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The Guardian - US

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 - UK

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 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

Reuters

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.

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