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White House confirms Biden-Putin call on Saturday – as it happened

US national security adviser urges Americans to leave Ukraine while US officials say Putin has decided to invade

The Guardian - US

Taliban release British journalist Andrew North from detention in Kabul

Journalist and several other reporters freed after being held while on assignment with UNHCR

The Guardian - UK

Former BBC journalist detained in Afghanistan by Taliban

Andrew North, the former South Asia correspondent, has been captured along with several others.

The Independent UK

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Biden releases $7bn in frozen Afghan funds to split between 9/11 families and aid

Money would go toward humanitarian efforts for Afghan people and to US victims of terrorism, keeping it out of hands of Taliban

The Guardian - US

Biden signs order to secure Afghan funds for aid, 9/11 families

The White House says the order is designed to ‘provide a path for the funds to reach the people of Afghanistan’.

Al Jazeera

Biden to pay portion of $7bn seized from Afghanistan to 9/11 victims and families

The Taliban are opposed

The Independent UK

U.S. plans to free half of $7 billion in frozen Afghan funds for aid

The United States is seeking to free up half of the $7 billion in frozen Afghan central bank assets on U.S. soil to help the Afghan people while holding the rest to possibly satisfy terrorism-related lawsuits against the Taliban, the White House said on Friday.

Reuters

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Ex-BBC journalist Andrew North 'kidnapped by Taliban' according to reports

Afghanistan's former Vice President Amrullah Saleh says nine people from western countries are among those taken by the group in the last few months.

Daily Record

Journalists working with U.N. detained in Afghanistan - UNHCR

Two journalists working with the United Nations have been detained along with several Afghan workers, the organisation's refugee agency said on Friday.

Reuters

Former BBC journalist one of nine Westerners kidnapped by Taliban, it is claimed

The reports have been made by Afghanistan's former Vice President on Twitter

Wales Online

Taliban kidnap nine Westerners including ex-BBC journalist Andrew North, says former Afghan vice-president

Mr North is believed to have been working for the United Nations

The Independent UK

Ex-BBC journalist Andrew North 'kidnapped' by the Taliban according to reports

Sources say the former BBC reporter based in Afghanistan is among nine people kidnapped in recent months as the UN confirms two journalists have been detained in Kabul

Daily Mirror

Exclusive-U.N. aims to launch new Afghanistan cash route in February: U.N. note

The United Nations aims to kickstart this month a system to swap millions of aid dollars for Afghan currency in a plan to stem humanitarian and economic crises and bypass blacklisted Taliban leaders, according to an internal U.N. note seen by Reuters.

Reuters

Swiss envoy says visiting Taliban interested in dialogue

A top Swiss diplomat who has met with a delegation from Afghanistan’s Taliban leadership says it expressed an interest in dialogue with the international community and realized “that they must take the first step” to unblock more aid desperately needed in the war-battered country

The Independent UK

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UK officials talk to Taliban about Afghanistan humanitarian crisis

The UK does not recognise the Taliban regime.

Dynamite News

WHO chief, Taliban delegation discuss 'dire' health crisis in Afghanistan

World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday said that he met the 10-member Taliban delegation headed by health minister Qalander Ebad and discussed the "dire" health and humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.

The Guardian - UK

‘We have never given up’: how Afghan women are demanding their education under the Taliban

Since recapturing Afghanistan, the Taliban have largely if inconsistently closed down girls’ schooling – but have found a new generation ready to fight for the right to study

France 24

Famine in Afghanistan: Will crisis force reset of relations with the Taliban?

Is tying humanitarian assistance to human rights the right course for Afghanistan? Aid agencies are this week imploring the West and in particular the US Treasury to allow money transfers to flow unhindered and to unblock desperately needed funds.

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The Guardian - UK

Living in a woman’s body: the Taliban fear our beauty, strength – and resistance

Growing up in Afghanistan I was taught to hide my body. Now I see it as a symbol of rebellion against those who would try to control me

The Guardian - AU

Wednesday briefing: More trouble after mini-reshuffle

Criticism over new role for Mark Spencer … Tory group pushes to derail green agenda … and Adele reigns supreme at the Brit awards

The Independent UK

New COVID wave batters Afghanistan's crumbling health care

All but five of the 38 COVID-19 treatment hospitals that once operated in Afghanistan have been forced to close in recent months for lack of doctors, medicines, even heat

The Guardian - AU

Covid news: Sweden scraps almost all restrictions and testing despite pleas from scientists; Spain’s King Felipe tests positive – as it happened

Sweden scraps almost all of its few restrictions and stops most testing; Spain’s King Felipe tests positive after displaying mild symptoms

The Guardian - UK

‘We are happy to fight you’: tensions rise on Afghan-Pakistani border

Five Pakistani soldiers killed as Taliban-led Afghanistan resists cooperation with Islamabad

The Guardian - UK

Two suspected British Islamic State recruits seized by Taliban at border

Exclusive: first reported case of attempted international recruitment to IS since US left Afghanistan

Reuters

U.N. rights office demands release of Afghan women activists

The U.N. human rights office called on Tuesday for the release of four women activists and their relatives in Afghanistan who were detained or abducted last month after protests over women's rights since the Taliban seized control.

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