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UN rapporteur calls for Taliban’s ‘gender apartheid’ to be codified as crime against humanity
The Independent via Yahoo News· 22 hours ago“The Taliban’s institutionalisation of its system of oppression of women and girls, and the harms...
Republicans fume over report part of $2.8B Afghan humanitarian funding went to Taliban
Fox News via Yahoo News· 3 days agoReps. Brian Mast and Michael McCaul separately admonished the Biden administration after an...
Palmer Luckey and Anduril want to shake up armsmaking
The Economist· 2 hours agoPalmer Luckey owns six helicopters. When your guest Schumpeter, meeting Mr Luckey in London, suggests that the British Army might sell him one, he laments that “eccentric US civilians ...
American Held by the Taliban Needs Urgent Medical Care, Says UN Expert
US News & World Report· 7 days ago"The Taliban must provide Ryan Corbett with medical treatment in a civilian hospital without delay," said Alice Jill Edwards, the U.N. Special Rapporteur ...
Olympic refugee team: Farzad Mansouri on his Kabul-Britain journey
BBC News· 12 hours agoA coalition of foreign forces, led by the USA and including the UK, had been withdrawing from...
What’s on TV tonight: Question Time Leaders’ Special, Federer: Twelve Final Days and more
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoQuestion Time Leaders’ Special BBC One, 8pm From football to political footballs: hot on the heels...
Battlefield Commander’s Case Goes to Guantánamo Jury
New York Times· 12 hours agoThe panel is deciding a sentence for a prisoner who pleaded guilty to commanding Qaeda and Taliban forces in Afghanistan that carried out war crimes. A...
Afghanistan: Negotiating A Big Reveal
Strategy Page· 2 days agoDecember 19, 2018: The United States is exploring the possibility of working out a peace deal with the Taliban. The major problem with that is getting Pakistan to cooperate ...
Fleeing Kabul, chasing gold - the story of a refugee Olympian
BBC via Yahoo Sports· 12 hours agoFarzad Mansouri was the teenage flagbearer for his nation at the last Olympics. Three years on,...
Afghanistan: And Now For Something Truly Vile
Strategy Page· 2 days agoAchieving peace requires all the help it can get and most Afghans understand that and help has arrived in the form of the Taliban being declared an “enemy of Islam” by a growing ...
