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Afghan taxi drivers beat the heat with handmade air coolers
BBC
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In a sweltering city in Afghanistan, taxis have been spotted with scrubby barrels and exhaust tubes mounted to their roofs. These are the hand-made air coolers that taxi drivers have cobbled together in their desperate efforts to beat the heat....
Afghan ally to U.S. describes human cost of Biden’s disastrous withdrawal
WorldNetDaily
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July 10, 2025
Joe Biden (Official White House photo by Adam Schultz) Almost universally regarded as the most egregious single event of the Biden presidency, the 2021 withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Afghanistan is, in fact, considered by many to be one...
Afghanistan Gets Into Tourism Industry, Releases A Wild Fake Hostage Video To Drum Up Business
OutKick - Tennessee
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July 10, 2025
The Taliban even have a golf course, but there aren't ladies' tees PublishedJuly 10, 2025 11:47 AM EDT•UpdatedJuly 10, 2025 11:48 AM EDT Facebook Twitter Email Copy Link Are you tired of trips to Gatlinburg? How about packing your bags for a...
Afghanistan Invites Americans For A 'Vacation' In Bizarre Video With Hostage Twist
News18
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July 10, 2025
Last Updated:July 10, 2025, 21:21 IST The 50-second clip begins with what appears to be a hostage scene: three people kneeling with bags over their heads. The 50-second clip begins with what appears to be a hostage scene. (Image Credit:...
Afghan family wins visa battle against German government freeze
Daily Times
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July 8, 2025
A German court has ruled that an Afghan family at risk must be issued visas, despite the government freezing its humanitarian admissions programme. The family, currently in Pakistan, was previously accepted under the programme meant for vulnerable...
Afghanistan: 6-year-old girl married to 45-year-old man, Taliban asks groom to wait till bride turns 9
DNA India
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Driven by poverty, joblessness and stringent restrictions on women since the return of the Taliban in 2021, the incidents of child marriage have increased considerably in Afghanistan. Child marriage in Afghanistan has gone up since return of...
Why over 500,000 Afghans were forced out of Iran in just 16 days and what’s next?
The Indian Express
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July 11, 2025
The dusty border town of Islam Qala in western Afghanistan has become a holding pen for the displaced, families huddled under tarpaulins, children too young to understand why their lives have been upended, and elderly men with sunburnt faces...
Why has Iran expelled half a million Afghans in 15 days?
Firstpost
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July 11, 2025
Iran has expelled over half a million Afghans since the war with Israel ended. The United Nations and other international organisations have called the development one of the biggest forced movement of population in decades. Millions from...
What Russia’s Embrace of the Taliban Means for Afghan Women and the World
The Diplomat
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July 10, 2025
In 1979, Russia, as the Soviet Union, invaded Afghanistan, unleashing a decade of violence with lasting repercussions, including the mass displacement of millions of Afghans. Arguably, the creation of the Taliban in 1994 is rooted in the aftermath...
Iran criticised for harsh mass deportations of Afghans
5Pillars
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July 11, 2025
Iran has faced criticism for the “undignified” large-scale expulsions of hundreds of thousands of Afghans during the height of summer, in a policy that has accelerated since the 12-day war with Israel. More than half a million Afghans have been...
Political Watch: July 10, 2025
Santa Maria Sun - California
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July 10, 2025
• On July 3, U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara) released a statement on the passage of the Republican reconciliation bill. Carbajal voted against the bill, while opposing its unprecedented cuts to essential programs like Medicaid and food...
Afghans invite US tourists to visit with bizarre video featuring a mock hostage EXECUTION and poking fun at their country's reputation for terrorism
Daily Mail
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July 10, 2025
An Afghan social media account has revealed a tourism pitch unlike any other in a bid to court Western travellers, reshape the nation's global image and revive its shattered economy. The slick marketing video, shared across social media by...
Time to transform Afghan-Kazakh interaction into sustainable cooperation
Pajhwok Afghan News
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July 11, 2025
KABUL (Pajhwok): Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi during a meeting with his Kazakh counterpart in Kabul on Friday said the time had come to transform the existing positive interaction between the two countries into sustainable and...
Our closest Afghan allies are in limbo
Washington Examiner
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July 11, 2025
Nearly four years after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, America’s Afghan allies remain in limbo due to a combination of bureaucratic dawdling under the Biden administration and rapid-fire changes in policy under President Donald Trump.Among...
Viral promo invites Americans to vacation in Afghanistan
Birmingham Star - Alabama
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The video features a blend of dark comedy, views of the Afghan countryside, and military visuals A bizarre promotional video targeting American tourists and inviting them to travel to Afghanistan has been released by a local tour operator. The...
Uzbekistan, Afghanistan Zero In On Deepening Economic And Regional Partnerships
MENAFN
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July 11, 2025
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, July 11 . Baxtiyor Saidov, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan, held a meeting with Abdul Ghafar Terawi, Ambassador of Afghanistan to Uzbekistan, Trend reports. “We addressed pressing...
Punjab Child Protection Bureau reunites Afghan children with families
The Express Tribune
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July 11, 2025
In a significant humanitarian development, the Family Tracing team of the Punjab Child Protection Bureau has successfully located the families of two Afghan children who had crossed into Pakistan illegally after fleeing their homes in Afghanistan....
Over 5,000 Afghan refugee families return home in single day
Xinhua News Agency
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KABUL, July 11 (Xinhua) -- More than 5,000 Afghan refugee families, with the vast majority of them from Iran, returned to their homeland Afghanistan in a single day on Thursday, reported the state-run Bakhtar news agency on Friday. A total of...
German-Afghan officials meet over plan to deport Afghans
The Local - Germany
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July 11, 2025
A former head of German foreign intelligence said Thursday he met with former Afghan president Hamid Karzai to discuss Berlin's aim to deport Afghans to their Taliban-controlled homeland. Germany's interior minister said last week he would seek...
RUSSIA BECOMES THE FIRST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD TO RECOGNIZE TALIBAN GOVERNMENT
Zambian Observer
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July 11, 2025
By CIC International Affairs. RUSSIA BECOMES THE FIRST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD TO RECOGNIZE TALIBAN GOVERNMENT. In a landmark move with far-reaching geopolitical implications, Russia has become the first country to officially recognize the...