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'Return to your country' Kabul tells Afghans rebuffed by WashingtonThe Taliban government on Saturday urged Afghans hoping to emigrate to the United States to instead return to Afghanistan, after Washington...- Fleeing Pakistan, Afghans rebuild from nothingFollowing Pakistan's expulsion campaign targeting Afghans, Nazmine Khan, a 15-year-old born in Pakistan, faces an uncertain future in Afgha...
- How the Taliban restrict women's lives in AfghanistanThe Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have imposed strict Islamic laws on women, severely restricting their education and work opportuniti...
- Malala Yousafzai 'overwhelmed and happy' to be back in PakistanMalala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and education activist, expressed her joy at being back in Pakistan for a global summit on...
- Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to visit native Pakistan for girls' summitNobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai will attend a summit on girls' education hosted by her native Pakistan, where she was nearly ki...
- Viral video: Woman in Iran removes turban of cleric to use it as hijabA video of an Iranian woman confronting a cleric for harassing her about not wearing a hijab has gone viral. The woman at Tehran’s Mehrabad...
- Taliban leader bans windows overlooking women's areasThe Taliban's supreme leader has issued an order banning the construction of windows in residential buildings that overlook areas used by A...
- Fringes infringe, and damage reputationsIgnoring extreme viewpoints as fringe activity is common. However, these views can impact the reputation of the entire group. The example o...
- Afghan Taliban vow to implement media ban on images of living thingsAfghanistan's Taliban morality ministry pledged Monday to implement a law banning news media from publishing images of all living things, w...
- Meryl Streep stands with Afghan women at UN, says ‘a cat has more freedom than a woman in Kabul’At a UN General Assembly event, actor Meryl Streep called attention to the Taliban's restrictions on Afghan women, likening their lack of r...
- Afghanistan's Taliban rulers score diplomatic wins, consolidate powerThree years into its rule of Afghanistan, the Taliban government has achieved some diplomatic wins even as it has consolidated power and en...
- Sole Olympic athlete training in Taliban's Afghanistan to fulfil judo dreamAfghanistan's Mohammad Samim Faizad is the only Olympic athlete training within Taliban-controlled Afghanistan for the Paris Olympics. Whil...
- Afghan Taliban govt says to attend next round of UN talks in DohaTaliban authorities will attend the third round of United Nations-hosted talks on Afghanistan in the Qatari capital, a government spokesman...
- Thousands of Afghan salons set to shut shop as Taliban deadline nearsThousands of beauty salons across Afghanistan are shutting down following an order by the Taliban regime that prohibits women from operatin...
- Afghan universities reopen but women still barredThe university ban is one of several restrictions imposed on women since the Taliban stormed back to power in August 2021 and has sparked g...
- Mahsa Amini death: Here's how Iranian women are protesting against alleged killingMahsa Amini, 22, was on a visit to Tehran with her family when she was detained by the specialist police unit. After a while, she suffered ...
- Change in authority in Kabul was neither through negotiations nor inclusive: IndiaThe Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan was neither through negotiations nor inclusive, India said at the UN Security Council while ca...
- Peace, security cannot be seen in isolation from development, India says at UNIndia's Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Tanmaya Lal said holistic approach was needed to prevent conflict and build pe...
- Jordan diplomat to replace Navi Pillay as UN HC for Human RightsAl-Hussein will replace Pillay, who was appointed High Commissioner for Human Rights in July 2008 and her mandate was renewed.
- South Africa's black women struggle to find jobsAs one in nearly three black South African women who are jobless, Sabatha Nyawo has pounded the streets of South Africa's financial capital...
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