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From battlefields to CBD: can hemp pioneer wean Afghanistan off opium?

Oil from the versatile plant makes cannabis medicine CBD and its fibre has a range of uses but the Taliban need convincing

The Guardian - UK

Australian journalist says Taliban forced her to film confession and send apology tweets for reporting in Afghanistan

Australian journalist Lynne O’Donnell describes three days of "cat-and-mouse" with the Taliban that eventually saw her detained for four hours.

ABC News

UNDP Official in Afghanistan to Asharq Al-Awsat: Taliban, ISIS Locked in Brutal War

The UNDP’s Resident Representative in Kabul, Afghanistan, Abdullah Dardari, told Asharq Al-Awsat that the political dialogue between the international body and the Taliban was constructive and making progress before the latter issued a decision to ban girls from education. Dardari noted that the Taliban is fighting a vicious and explicit…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Taliban presiding over extensive rights abuses in Afghanistan, says UN

Allegations include 160 killings of ex-government officials and security forces, torture and punishments

The Guardian - UK

Afghan refugees who fled Taliban and Ukraine war fear UK deportation to Rwanda

Exclusive: Having fled persecution in their home country, Afghan refugees plead with British ministers to show them the same mercy given to Ukrainians

The Independent UK

UN report highlights hundreds of rights violations in Afghanistan

The United Nations mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said on Wednesday that the ruling Taliban were responsible for extrajudicial killings, torture, arbitrary arrests, and inhumane punishments in the 10 months since they seized power.

Reuters

Afghans in US immigration limbo watch Ukrainians breeze through

Thousands of at-risk Afghans continue to wait for their humanitarian parole and visa applications to progress.

Al Jazeera

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UN slams killings, rights abuses under Afghanistan's Taliban

The United Nations says in a new report that despite an overall improved security situation in Afghanistan, at least 700 people have been killed since the Taliban took over last year

The Independent UK

AP PHOTOS: Afghan despair, poverty fuel addiction scourge

Drug addiction has long been a problem in Afghanistan, the world’s biggest producer of opium and heroin

The Independent UK

Martin Compston helped family escape Taliban after chatting with Afghan taxi driver

MARTIN Compston has told of how he helped an Afghan taxi driver’s family escape the Taliban after he gave him a lift home from a night out.

The National (Scotland)

How one mobile app is helping Afghans send aid

The consumer-based startup pivoted to let donors buy aid kits to provide to locals hit by an earthquake last month.

Al Jazeera

Afghan refugees protest delayed visas at US embassy in Madagascar

Afghan refugees living in the east African island nation say they lack basic support and want to be relocated to the US.

Al Jazeera

Something insidious is happening to the health of Afghanistan’s women

Doctors and authorities are at odds as to the cause of mysterious collective ailments affecting Afghan women and girls.

Inverse

‘She will be killed’: Wife of Afghan man who worked for British army denied UK visa

Exclusive: Hafizullah Husseinkhel, commended by his cavalry regiment for his ‘outstanding’ contribution in Helmand province, says he feels ‘betrayed’ and ‘terrified’ after the Home Office refused his wife’s application to join him in Britain

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Send us a man to do your job so we can sack you, Taliban tell female officials

As economy collapses, women from Afghanistan’s finance ministry say they have been asked to suggest male relatives to replace them

ABC News

The school for new arrivals, where refugee teens can find their feet in Australia

From figuring out how public transport works, to adjusting to a foreign school system and making new friends — arriving in an unfamiliar country as a teenager can bring many challenges. But these young Afghan migrants are leading the way.

WEKU

In Kabul, a new ritual: Hungry women wait for bread outside bakeries

Since the Taliban came to power, food insecurity has risen. Women in blue burqas sit in front of the city's upscale bakeries, silently waiting for charitable passersby to purchase bread for them.

Daily Mirror

'NHS saved me after Taliban massacre - now I want to be a surgeon to repay that hope'

Waleed Khan was shot when six Taliban gunmen opened fire at his school. He was then brought over to the UK for reconstructive surgery and has undergone 13 major procedures in the last eight years

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Daily Mirror

Dad-of-two shares horror 6-month ordeal as Taliban hostage with no daylight for 2 months

Anthony Stephen Malone and a former BBC cameraman were grabbed off the streets of Kabul and were held hostage for until June and they went two month without seeing daylight

France 24

Avignon’s 76th Theatre Festival: Kubra Khademi on Afghanistan’s heroines

Avignon may be France’s oldest arts festival, but it has a resolutely contemporary approach to the dramatic arts, with experimental performances that draw on dance, theatre and poetic traditions. We sit down with multidisciplinary artist Kubra Khademi, whose performance “From Armour to Jackets” kicks off the festival, to hear about…

Reason

Utah Wants To Help Afghan Refugees Prosper. Will the Federal Government Get in the Way?

The federal government set the tone on the beginning of the resettlement process. It continues to keep legal status for certain evacuees out of reach.

The Guardian - UK

‘Harassed here too’: Afghan artists find no sanctuary in Pakistan

Musicians had hoped to keep their art alive after fleeing Taliban but now face crackdown on refugees

Daily Mirror

Afghan refugee, 22, escaped Taliban through roof after abrupt NATO withdrawal

The fallout from the chaotic withdrawal of NATO forces from Afghanistan last August has continued, as fleeing refugees like Hadeeb Sangin struggle to settle in Europe

The National (Scotland)

Call for 'Australia-style' inquiry into claims SAS troops killed detainees in Afghanistan

The documentary claimed special forces soldiers were allegedly involved in 54 suspicious killings during a six-month tour of Afghanistan

The Hindu

Don’t use the Udaipur killing to tar Indian Muslims

Neither the Koran nor the Prophet prescribed any earthly punishment for blasphemy although it is considered a great sin theologically.

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