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Climate change is making Afghanistan’s hunger crisis worse

Drought had already devastated Allawddin Rahimi’s wheat fields when the Taliban reached his village in northern Afghanistan. The group’s takeover left him with no choice but to flee.

Tribune News Service

Afghan women rip down banners when Taliban refuse to talk about education

They went to the meeting hoping to talk to the Taliban about Afghan women’s right to education. Around 400 women and girls, many of them of high-school and university age, showed up on April 1 at a sports hall in the central city of Bamiyan for what they had been…

France 24

Shrinking public space for Afghan women as Taliban expands curbs

The group is reimposing draconian restrictions, especially against women, that are reminiscent of their past regime.

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Afghan report neglects war crimes: experts

A report on the Afghanistan response fails to make any progress on reconciling accusations of war crimes, the Australian Centre for International Justice says.

AAP

US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin hits back at Matt Gaetz: ‘I’m sorry you are embarrassed by your country’

Mr Gaetz berated the retired four-star general about a lecture given by a guest speaker at the US National Defence University

The Independent UK

Afghan refugees set to get East Renfrewshire homes if council approves

Up to six families could be welcomed to East Renfrewshire if the council's cabinet agrees to the proposal at a meeting on Thursday.

Glasgow Live

Afghan evacuees mark first US Ramadan with gratitude, agony

Afghan families evacuated to the United States when the Taliban regained power are celebrating the Muslim holy month of Ramadan

The Independent UK

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Danish aid chief says group's Afghan female staff working

A Danish aid group has been able to keep its Afghan women employees working, even after the Taliban takeover of the country last August

The Independent UK

Nearly 1,400 Afghans granted emergency visas never made it to Australia

Senate inquiry calls on government to reinstate 1,398 lapsed humanitarian visas originally granted after Taliban takeover

The Guardian - AU

Report urges improvement for Afghan visas

A report into Australia's involvement in Afghanistan has urged an overhaul of visa processes for refugees fleeing from the Taliban.

AAP

Kim Jong Un impersonator Howard X is using his likeness to help others

While the real Kim Jong Un heightened international tensions with an apparent ballistic missile test, his impersonator has been doing intercontinental humanitarian work, including helping the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's lookalike flee the Russian invaders.

ABC News

Reliable death tolls from the Ukraine war are hard to come by – the result of undercounts and manipulation

Those who initiate wars often begin with an overly optimistic assumption that the fighting will be quick, controllable and that casualties will be low. When many bodies start coming home or are left on the battlefield, it is a sign that the war is none of those things.

The Conversation

‘Grave concern’ over lack of safe and legal routes to UK for vulnerable people still trapped in Afghanistan

Joint letter calls on ministers to act ‘as matter of urgency’ to bring people at risk from Taliban to Britain

The Independent UK

Explainer-What political upheaval in Pakistan means for rest of the world

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan blocked a no-confidence vote he looked sure to lose on Sunday and advised the president to order fresh elections, fueling anger among the opposition and deepening the country's political crisis.

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Taliban Bans Drug Cultivation, Including Opium

The Taliban announced on Sunday a ban on the cultivation of narcotics in Afghanistan, the world's biggest opium producer. "As per the decree of the supreme leader of the Emirate of Afghanistan, all Afghans are informed that from now on, cultivation of poppy has been strictly prohibited across the country,"…

Reuters

Blast in Afghan capital kills one, wounds dozens - health workers

A blast hit the money exchange hub in Afghanistan's capital Kabul on Sunday, killing one and injuring dozens, health workers said.

Al Jazeera

Taliban chief orders ‘strict’ ban on opium poppy cultivation

The ban comes as the Taliban tries to assuage international concerns regarding drug control in the impoverished country.

The Independent UK

Afghanistan's Taliban announce ban on poppy production

Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban have announced a ban on poppy production, even as farmers across the country began harvesting the bright red flower that produces the opium used to make heroin

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Taliban bans drug cultivation, including lucrative opium

The Taliban announced on Sunday a ban on the cultivation of narcotics in Afghanistan, the world's biggest opium producer.

Tribune News Service

US man held hostage in Afghanistan seen alive for 1st time in 2 years in new video

An American man kidnapped by the Taliban in early 2020 was seen alive for the first time since then on Friday in a hostage video.

Reuters

Two detainees released from Afghanistan -U.S. State Dept

An American and a U.S. resident have been freed from detention in Afghanistan, the State Department said on Friday, and one of the pair identified themselves as brothers who were engaged in humanitarian work when the Taliban arrested them.

Input

The Taliban uses leftover U.S. biometric data to monitor Afghans

Tech like fingerprint and iris scanners left after the U.S. withdrawal last year is now in the hands of a group that certainly shouldn't have them.

Axios

Taliban releases American aid worker detained in Afghanistan

Safi Rauf and his brother were held in Afghanistan for 105 days.

The Independent UK

US secures release of Afghan-American Naval reservist held by Taliban

Safi Rauf and his brother Anees Khalil had been in captivity since December

Tribune News Service

Jay Ambrose: Biden can't handle his job

Someone forgot to tie him to his Oval Office chair, and so it was that President Joe Biden took off for Europe to discuss the Ukraine horror with NATO and European leaders, visit Poland and fumble enough rhetorically to conceivably make the situation worse.

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