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New Zealand's border quarantine has intercepted thousands of COVID cases, but is it time to retire the flawed system?

The controversy surrounding New Zealand journalist Charlotte Bellis, who has now accepted a place in border quarantine after initially seeking refuge in Afghanistan when her first application was declined, has highlighted confusion and concern over New Zealand’s managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) system.

The Conversation

U.S. advice to banks: OK to transfer aid money to Afghanistan

International banks can transfer money to Afghanistan for humanitarian purposes, and aid groups are allowed to pay teachers and healthcare workers at state-run institutions without fear of breaching sanctions on the Taliban, the United States said on Wednesday.

Reuters

Syrian war photos misused by senior Chinese diplomat to criticise US war in Afghanistan

One of China's most senior diplomats is criticised for promoting misinformation after he posted to Twitter a series of photographs of Syrian children he claimed were children in Afghanistan.

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Claims of PM involvement in Afghan animal airlift ‘absurd’, says minister

A Tory frontbencher acknowledges ‘confusion’ with correspondence indicating the Prime Minister approved the operation

The Independent UK

Kabul bomber was on a suicide mission to India in 2017

Was deported after CIA tip-off

The Hindu

Afghan women say they wouldn't be afforded the same rights as a pregnant NZ journalist under the Taliban

Afghan women accuse the Taliban of using a pregnant, New Zealand journalist as a publicity tool to show the world they can offer women rights.

ABC News

Taliban reopen universities for Afghan women in 6 provinces

The Taliban say they have reopened public universities for women students in six of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces, a move marking a major concession to international demands by the country’s new rulers

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Soaring pneumonia and starvation is killing thousands of children in Afghanistan

Pneumonia cases are soaring in Afghanistan and killing children unable to access healthcare facilities, leading humanitarian organisation for children Save the Children said on Monday. Since the Taliban takeover last August, unemployment levels have exploded throughout Afghanistan, leaving parents unable to provide for their families. The direct result has been…

France 24

Witness denies telling Roberts-Smith lies

A key witness claiming war hero Ben Roberts-Smith was instrumental in two Afghanistan executions isn't trying to cover his own faults, a judge has heard.

AAP

Daily Dose Ep 960: Modi on digital currency, BJP fields former ED officer in UP

Yusra Hasan brings you the news from Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, and Afghanistan.

Newslaundry

Biden says burn pits killed his son. More than 261,000 vets are sick. So why isn’t the US doing anything?

Vast open-air pits where trash burned around the clock were simply part of life on deployment for troops in America’s post-9/11 wars. Now, thousands are sick and dying because of the toxic exposure and feel abandoned by the country that they fought for, writes Rachel Sharp

The Independent UK

A Skeptical Public May Stop War With Russia

After disappointment in Afghanistan, Americans show no eagerness for a new conflict.

Reason

Home Office spends £1.2m a day housing asylum seekers and Afghan refugees in hotels

More than £438m a year spent accommodating 37,000 individuals who have been evacuated from Afghanistan or are claiming asylum in the UK - which charities brand ‘failed strategy’

The Independent UK

Conversations with God: Afghan evacuees in Philly say faith sustains them amid upheaval

PHILADELPHIA — The American troops shouted over the chaos of the crowds, Ahmad said, telling him to get inside the Kabul airport while he still could.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

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Reuters

Afghanistan's Taliban told they can't take their guns to the funfair

Taliban fighters will no longer be allowed to carry their weapons in amusement parks in Afghanistan, the group's spokesman said on Wednesday, in what appeared to be another effort by the country's new rulers to soften their image.

Reuters

Female students join male peers as Afghan universities reopen

Afghanistan's public universities opened on Wednesday for the first time since the Taliban took over the country last year, with female students joining their male counterparts heading back to campus.

The Guardian - AU

‘Living hell’: Australia urged to ramp up Afghanistan aid as humanitarian crisis unfolds

Senators told 13.1 million children need help now and 95% of Afghans could be living in poverty by the middle of the year

The Times of India

ICC U-19 World Cup: England outclass Afghanistan to enter final

NORTH SOUND (Antigua): Fancied England kept their nerve to reach the ICC U-19 World Cup final after prevailing over Afghanistan by 15 runs in an exciting last-four clash here, ending a 24-year wait for the side.

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The Guardian - AU

Ben Roberts-Smith executed unarmed Afghan civilian on ground, serving SAS soldier tells court

SAS soldier also tells court he saw Ben Roberts-Smith order another soldier to shoot a man during a raid on a compound in Afghanistan as Roberts-Smith denies both claims

Axios

Leaked document reveals Biden’s Afghan failures

The notes shed new light on how the administration was unprepared to evacuate Afghan nationals who'd helped the U.S. against the Taliban.

The Guardian - AU

Nation records 69 Covid deaths as hospital numbers fall – as it happened

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The Independent UK

Fears Afghans in ‘desperate need’ will miss out as one-third of resettlement places filled by people already in UK

More than 6,500 Afghans in Britain granted places on new scheme that aimed to resettle 5,000 in first year

AAP

Roberts-Smith ordered execution: witness

A serving soldier has testified he saw Ben Roberts-Smith execute an Afghan man and order another's death during a 2009 special forces tour of Afghanistan.

Reuters

U.N. urges Taliban to release information about missing journalists

The United Nation's mission to Afghanistan on Tuesday called on the Taliban administration to release details on the detention of two Afghan journalists who disappeared the previous day.

The Independent UK

Charlotte Bellis: Pregnant New Zealand journalist stranded in Afghanistan can return home

‘When the Taliban offers you – a pregnant, unmarried woman – safe haven, you know your situation is messed up,’ Charlotte Bellis writes

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