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Plaintiff Sufficiently Alleged Knowing/Reckless Falsehood in CNN Story About Evacuating Afghans During Withdrawal

"Young proffered CNN messages and emails that showed internal concern about the completeness and veracity of the reporting—the story is 'a mess,' 'incomplete,' not 'fleshed out for digital,' 'the story is 80% emotion, 20% obscured fact,' and 'full of holes like Swiss cheese.'"

Reason

UNICEF Urges Taliban To Allow Afghan Girls' Education

UNICEF urges Taliban to allow girls' education in Afghanistan, impacting over 1 million girls. International community calls for equal access to education ...

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First Thing: Far-right gains in EU polls prompt snap election in France

After populist gains in France, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands in EU elections, Macron announces he will dissolve French parliament. Plus: a new series exploring the angst at the heart of the US election

The Guardian - UK

Khalida Popal: ‘I was accused of wanting to brainwash women to play football’

Founder of Afghanistan women’s national team tells Donald McRae about fearing assassination and aiding 500 players and their families evacuate when the Taliban returned

The Guardian - UK

Colorado Republicans call for pride flags to be burned to stop ‘godless groomers’

LGBTQ+ Republicans and Democrats ripped the GOP over the email seeking to stop “godless groomers.”

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Emirati leader meets with Taliban official facing $10 million US bounty over attacks

The leader of the United Arab Emirates has met with an official in the Taliban government still wanted by the United States on an up-to $10 million bounty over his involvement in an attack that killed an American citizen and other assaults

The Independent UK

Kabul: Final Call by Laurie Bristow; The Afghans by Åsne Seierstad reviews – how the west abandoned Afghanistan… and what happened next

An ex-UK envoy’s compelling account of the chaotic military withdrawal from the country is full of telling details, while Seierstad’s latest work drives home the cruel reality of women’s lives after the return of Taliban rule

The Guardian - UK

River ferry sinks in Afghanistan, killing at least 20

A Taliban official said that at least 20 people were killed as a river ferry sank in eastern Afghanistan

The Independent UK

Taliban Govt Harbours Big Dreams For Afghan Rail

On the edge of the Afghan border with Uzbekistan, where the railway abruptly stops, throngs of young men transfer sacks of wheat or flour from freight trains to trucks.

International Business Times

Giving back opens up doors for Afghan refugee

An Afghan refugee credits volunteering for creating opportunities in Australia, saying it's an essential pathway for others trying to establish themselves.

AAP

Mines, Unexploded Ordnance A Daily Menace For Afghanistan's Children

The black mushroom cloud had barely faded in Ghazni province before kids clustered around the edge of the crater created by the mine, one of the devices that kills a child every other day in Afghanistan.

International Business Times

US hostility towards the ICC is nothing new – it has long supported the court only when it suits American interests

This week, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) applied for arrest warrants for three Hamas leaders, as well as Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, in connection with the ongoing war in Gaza.

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The Independent UK

Turkish Airlines resumes flights to Afghanistan nearly 3 years after the Taliban captured Kabul

Afghanistan's Taliban have confirmed the resumption of Turkish Airlines flights to Kabul’s international airport

International Business Times

Taliban Poets Sing Praise Of New Afghan Order

Taliban poets, long fuelled by fervour for jihad against foreign forces, have focused their efforts on flattering the men who now rule Afghanistan.

The Independent UK

Salman Rushdie says a new Palestinian state would be ‘Taliban-like’

Author argues ‘it’s very strange for young, progressive student politics to kind of support a fascist terrorist group’ in Hamas

The Guardian - UK

Salman Rushdie says a Palestinian state formed today would be ‘Taliban-like’

Novelist, who teaches at New York University, says he finds it strange that progressive students currently ‘kind of support a fascist terrorist group’

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Al Jazeera

At least 66 dead as new floods hit Afghanistan’s Faryab province

Flooding damaged more than 1,500 houses, swamped more than 400 hectares of agricultural land and killed livestock.

International Business Times

'Blood Everywhere': Survivor Recounts Attack On Tourists In Afghanistan

When she first heard the gunshots, French tourist Anne-France Brill thought for a split second there was a celebration in the Afghan market where she and her fellow travellers stopped to buy fruit.

International Business Times

Three Spaniards, Three Afghans Killed In Shooting In Afghanistan

The bodies of three Spanish tourists and three Afghans shot dead while visiting a market in Afghanistan were transported to the capital where multiple wounded were also treated, the Taliban government said Saturday.

The Hindu

Chabahar | India’s gateway to Central Asia

Chabahar: India's gateway to Central Asia, developed through strategic partnerships despite geopolitical challenges, poised for further growth.

The Guardian - UK

Fresh floods in Afghanistan kill at least 60 after heavy rain brings devastation

Thousands of homes and farming land damaged in Ghor province, a week after over 300 people killed in flash floods

The Independent UK

Flash floods due to unusually heavy seasonal rains kill at least 68 people in Afghanistan

Taliban officials say flash floods from heavy seasonal rains have killed at least 68 people in Afghanistan, adding the death toll was based on preliminary reports

Al Jazeera

Three Afghans, three Spanish tourists killed in Bamyan shooting

Group of tourists and their companions was fired on while walking through a market in central Afghanistan.

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