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Merkel Receives UNESCO Peace Prize for Welcoming Refugees to Germany

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel received a UNESCO peace prize Wednesday for her decision to welcome more than 1.2 million migrants to Germany despite resistance at home and among European partners. Organizers said that Merkel showed political courage when Germany welcomed refugees in 2015-2016 who had fled conflicts in Syria,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Taliban administration to send earthquake aid to Turkey, Syria

Afghanistan's Taliban administration will send around $165,000 in aid to Turkey and Syria to help the response to a devastating magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck this week, according to a foreign ministry statement.

Reuters

Despite the Taliban's pledge to eradicate opium, the poppy trade still flourishes in Afghanistan

The Taliban have always had a complicated relationship with the opium trade. As a narcotic, opium is haram, or forbidden under Islamic law. But at the same time opium production has tended to increase in areas they have controlled, where local leaders reportedly raise money to fund their operations by…

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Pervez Musharraf, ex-military ruler of Pakistan, laid to rest

Pervez Musharraf, who backed the US invasion of Afghanistan, wasburied at a cemetery in Karachi with ‘military honours’.

Al Jazeera

Saudi diplomats leave Afghanistan, relocate to Pakistani capital -sources

Saudi diplomats have left Afghanistan for "training" and will return, the Taliban administration said on Monday, though three sources familiar with the matter said security concerns had contributed to their departure.

Reuters

Appeal for release of French journalist jailed in Afghanistan

The media protection organisation Reporters Without Borders and 14 French news organisations have called for the immediate release of the franco-afghan journalist Mortaza Behboudi, detained by the Taliban in Kabul since 7 January.

Radio France Internationale

Key witness in Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial acted ‘like a drunken fool’ towards police, says magistrate

Federal police sought former soldier’s phone as part of investigation into war crimes potentially committed in Afghanistan

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Democrats’ Ilhan Omar defence weakened by party’s own attacks over Israel

Party’s criticism of Omar’s Israel position has greased the path for Republicans to oust her from the foreign affairs committee

The Guardian - US

Ex-Pakistan leader Pervez Musharraf, who aided U.S. war in Afghanistan, has died

Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who seized power in a bloodless coup and later led a reluctant Pakistan into aiding the U.S. war in Afghanistan against the Taliban, has died. He was 79.

WEKU

Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan martial ruler in 9/11 wars, dies

An offical says Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who seized power in a bloodless coup and later led a reluctant Pakistan into aiding the U.S. war in Afghanistan, has died

The Independent UK

Parts of Chicago more dangerous than war zones, who’s profiting on the Bally’s deal and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Chicago Sun-Times

Violence in some Chicago neighborhoods puts young men at greater risk than U.S. troops faced in Iraq, Afghanistan war zones, study finds

The researchers say their findings point to a need for more trauma-related health care in those places, especially in the West Side ZIP code 60624.

Chicago Sun-Times

U.N. rights rapporteur urges release of detained Afghan education activist

The United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights called on Afghanistan's Taliban administration on Friday to release a university lecturer and education activist detained by security forces in the capital Kabul.

Reuters

Dutch ministry won't appeal unlawful Afghan airstrike ruling

The Dutch government says it will not appeal a court ruling that Dutch forces unlawfully bombed a residential complex in Afghanistan in 2007, killing some 20 civilians, in a civil case

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Taliban detains professor who protested ban on women’s education

The Taliban confirms the detention of Ismail Mashal, who tore up his degrees to protest against women’s education ban.

The Independent UK

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Afghanistan: single women and widows are struggling to find their next meal under Taliban restrictions

Jamila*, a widow living in Herat, lost her husband in a suicide attack about eight years ago. She has an 18-year-old daughter who is blind and a 20-year-old son who lost both legs in a mine blast.

The Independent UK

Pakistani troops kill 2 militants in raid near Afghan border

Pakistan's military says security forces have killed two insurgents during a raid of a militant hideout in a former Pakistani Taliban stronghold near Afghanistan

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Some UN Afghan aid delivered by men only, donors voice alarm

Under pressure from Afghanistan's Taliban administration, the United Nations is delivering some food aid using men only, prompting warnings from donors and humanitarian groups that it could be seen as giving in to an internationally condemned ban on most female aid workers.

The Guardian - UK

Afghan refugees settled in London told to uproot families and move 200 miles

Forty families brought to UK after fleeing Taliban given only weeks to move to West Yorkshire

WEKU

Pakistan is roiled by multiple crises at once, with little end in sight

A storm of global issues, from the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan, has exposed and exacerbated Pakistan's political, economic and security fault lines.

Al Jazeera

What is behind the rising violent attacks in Pakistan?

TTP has denied involvement in the Peshawar mosque blast, but officials say it has intensified attacks since November.

Reuters

Afghan women prosecutors once seen as symbols of democracy find asylum in Spain

Pushing her son on a swing at a playground on a sunny winter's day in Madrid, former Afghan prosecutor Obaida Sharar expresses relief that she found asylum in Spain after fleeing Afghanistan shortly after the Taliban took over.

Asharq Al-Awsat

New US Restrictions against Taliban for Bans on Women

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced new visa restrictions against the Taliban Wednesday in response to bans on employment and education for women in Afghanistan. "I am taking action today to impose additional visa restrictions on certain current or former Taliban members, members of non-state security groups, and other individuals…

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China is extending its dealings with the Taliban as it increases its superpower status

China is one of the few countries that is committed to expanding its dealings with the Taliban government in Afghanistan, where it hopes to expand its use of the vast natural resources while also improving its own geopolitical security.

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