More than 250 killed after strong earthquake strikes eastern Afghanistan

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More than 250 killed after strong earthquake strikes eastern Afghanistan

Issued on: 22/06/2022 – 08:44 A powerful earthquake struck Afghanistan’s eastern Paktika province early on Wednesday, killing at least 255 people and injuring hundreds more, state-run media said. Afghanistan‘s state-run Bakhtar news agency reported the death toll and said rescuers were arriving by helicopter. The news agency’s director-general, Abdul Wahid Rayan, wrote on Twitter that 90 houses have

Taliban’s first annual Afghan budget foresees $501 million deficit

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Afghan Deputy Prime Minister Mawlavi Abdul Salam Hanafi speaks during a ceremony to raise the Taliban flag in Kabul in March. | REUTERS

KABUL – Afghanistan faces a budget deficit of 44 billion Afghanis ($501 million) this financial year, the country’s Taliban authorities said on Saturday without clarifying how the gap between expected revenues and planned spending will be met. Announcing the first annual national budget since the Taliban took over the war-torn country in August last year,

Some Afghan women defy Taliban edict

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Some Afghan women defy Taliban edict

Issued on: 14/05/2022 – 11:14 The Taliban earlier this month issued a decree urging women to stay home and ordering those who have to go out to cover their faces with a burqa. But a few brave Afghan women have vowed to defy the restrictive edict. A day after the Taliban issued a decree on May

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

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

Issued on: 06/04/2022 – 18:27 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

Female students join male peers as Afghan universities reopen

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Taliban fighters stand guard at the main gate of Laghman University in Afghanistan's Laghman province on Wednesday. | AFP-JIJI

JALALABAD, Afghanistan– Afghanistans public universities opened on Wednesday for the first time considering that the Taliban took over the nation last year, with female trainees joining their male counterparts heading back to campus.The Taliban administration has not formally revealed its plan for female university students, but education authorities stated females were permitted to participate in

Taliban leaders meet Western diplomats in Oslo to discuss Afghan human rights

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Taliban leaders meet Western diplomats in Oslo to discuss Afghan human rights

Taliban and Western diplomats fulfill in Oslo on Monday for talks on Afghanistans humanitarian crisis and human rights, particularly those of women whose freedoms have been suppressed by the hardline Islamists. Source link. In their first visit to Europe considering that returning to power in August, the Taliban will meet representatives of the United States,

Afghanistan: Dominic Raab denies prioritising dogs over people

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Afghanistan: Dominic Raab denies prioritising dogs over people

Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/skynews Sign up for our YouTube channel for more videos: http://www.youtube.com/skynews Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/skynews Former Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has told Sky News the UK Federal government did “whatever we could” to get susceptible individuals out of Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban takeover. Follow us on Twitter:

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