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Iran in talks with the Taliban to resume ambitious rail project

The Khaf-Herat rail link is expected to boost trade and travel between Iran and Afghanistan.

Al Jazeera

Staff at British embassy in Ukraine not offered refuge in UK, say diplomats

Exclusive: Ministers accused of creating ‘Afghanistan part two’ after failure to evacuate embassy staff

The Independent UK

From Taliban bullets to Russian bombs: war chases Afghan refugee across Europe

Masouma Tajik thought she had found safety and a new life – but six months later Putin’s invasion has forced her to flee again

The Guardian - UK

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‘Courage and defiance’: female Guardian reporters on the women who inspired them

From an abortion rights campaigner in Poland to a protester in Myanmar, our correspondents choose some of the women they most admire to mark International Women’s Day

The Guardian - UK

Terror in Peshawar: on Shia mosque attack

Islamist terrorists are seeking to set off a Sunni-Shia sectarian war in Af-Pak region

The Hindu

Nearly 400 civilians killed in Afghanistan under Taliban rule: UN

It is the first major human rights report since the Taliban seized power from the former US-backed government in August.

Al Jazeera

Syria, Afghanistan, Ukraine: how many refugee crises can the world cope with?

On the borders of Turkey, a six-metre high wall in the snow is holding back a tide of people desperate to find a haven from tyranny, says Anushka Asthana of ITV News

The Guardian - UK

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Nearly 400 civilians killed in Afghanistan since Taliban takeover, UN says

(This March 7 story corrects name of U.S. ambassador in final para to Michele Taylor, not Sheba Crocker)

Reuters

A wary and reluctant embrace

Pragmatic motives like security concerns in its western frontiers have forced China to build ties with Taliban

The Hindu

Honours for soldiers who went way beyond the call of duty

Fifteen awards to soldiers who served in Iraq, Afghanistan as well as Australian floods and pandemic

The Canberra Times

Afghans resettling in US struggle to find affordable housing

Afghan refugees who fled their country following the Taliban takeover six months ago are struggling to find affordable housing in the high-cost U.S. cities where they’ve chosen to settle

The Independent UK

Taliban official wanted by U.S. makes rare public appearance

The Taliban's acting interior minister says Taliban security police guilty of misconduct in Afghanistan are being penalized after many abuse allegations

The Independent UK

Taliban’s Secretive Haqqani Network Leader Shows His Face for First Time

One of the Taliban's most secretive leaders, whose only picture on US "most wanted" lists is a grainy semi-covered profile, was photographed openly for the first time Saturday at a passing-out parade for new Afghan police recruits. Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, who also heads the feared Haqqani Network, has previously…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Editorial: It’s Afghan money: President Biden shouldn’t reserve $3.5 billion for a subset of terrorism victims

In an executive order last month, President Joe Biden moved to divide and release $7 billion from Afghanistan’s central bank — funds frozen after the Taliban takeover of the country. Half would go to meet urgent Afghan humanitarian needs, and half would apparently be disbursed to a subset of U.S.…

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The Independent UK

Pakistan vows to arrest masterminds of IS mosque attack

Officials in Pakistan are vowing to hunt down and arrest the masterminds behind a deadly mosque attack claimed by an Islamic State affiliate

The Guardian - UK

Afghan journalist Zahra Joya among Time’s women of the year

Now a refugee in the UK, Joya and the Rukhshana Media agency defied threats to report on life for women under the Taliban

The Independent UK

Inside life under the Taliban for homeless addicts in Afghanistan

Under Taliban rule, Afghan drug users face beatings, harsh winters outside and poor treatment facilities. Photographer Maxim Shipenkov visited Kabul to witness their life on the edge

Reuters

U.S. calls for help to rehome Afghans who fled chaos of Taliban takeover

The United States still needs other nations to take Afghans who fled their homeland last year, a senior U.S. State Department official said on Friday, six months after Washington's chaotic withdrawal as the hard-line Islamist Taliban took control.

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Al Jazeera

US official meets Afghans stranded in UAE, apologises for delays

The US is still struggling with handling the tens of thousands who were evacuated amid the fall of Kabul last year.

The Independent UK

US diplomat apologizes to thousands of Afghans stuck in UAE

A senior U.S. diplomat has apologized to thousands of Afghans stranded in the United Arab Emirates months after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban

France 24

Gunfight and bomb blast at Pakistani Shiite mosque kills dozens

A powerful bomb exploded inside a Shiite Muslim mosque in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on Friday, killing at least 56 people and wounding 194 others, according to a hospital official.

Dublin Live

Kind-hearted Dublin residents come together to raise money for refugee family

Founder Ann Kelleher the idea came to her while watching the heartbreaking scenes in Kabul after it was captured by the Taliban last year

The Independent UK

UN envoy: Afghan failing economy heads to `irreversibility'

The U_N_ special envoy for Afghanistan says the international community hasn’t done enough to revive the country’s economy as it heads toward “a point of irreversibility.”

Reuters

Famine may have been averted, but Afghan economic crisis deepens -U.N. envoy

Humanitarian agencies may have distributed enough aid in Afghanistan to avert famine and large-scale starvation, but the country's economic collapse is "approaching a point of irreversibility," the U.N. envoy to Kabul said on Wednesday.

The Guardian - AU

Australian Christian Lobby criticises Scott Morrison for saying Ukrainians at ‘top of pile’ for visas

Group asks what message Australia is sending to people fleeing from ‘horrors of the Taliban’ in Afghanistan

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