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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...
Fact-check: KTR stokes row over cultural map gift by BJP leader to Lokesh — an older illustration, not political
Organiser Weekly
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A recent gesture by Andhra Pradesh BJP’s newly-appointed State President PVN Madhav has sparked an online controversy, with political undertones. After assuming office, Madhav gifted a large framed portrait to AP Minister Nara Lokesh. The...
Wait until she’s 9: Why Taliban asked 45-year-old Afghan ‘groom’ to hold off marriage with 6-year-old
Firstpost
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July 11, 2025
A 45-year-old man, who is already married to two women, took a six-year-old girl as his ‘bride’ after he bought her from her father in Afghanistan. The man paid the child’s family for the marriage, which happened in the country’s Marjah district,...
Russia First to Recognise Afghan Taliban
The Nation
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July 11, 2025
Russia has become the first country to officially recognise the Afghan Taliban government, following their takeover of Kabul in August 2021 and the subsequent withdrawal of U.S. forces after two decades of war. Since 2022, the Taliban-led Islamic...
Iran expels half a million Afghans in 16-day stretch since recent conflict with Israel, UN says
Yahoo News
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More than half a million Afghans have been expelled from Iran in the 16 days since the conflict with Israel ended, according to the United Nations, in what may be one of the largest forced movements of population this decade. For months, Tehran...
Digging Deeper: Kazakhmys Barlau’s Plan for Exploration, Talent, and Afghanistan’s Geology
The Astana Times
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July 11, 2025
ASTANA — President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has set an ambitious national goal: to bring the level of Kazakhstan’s subsoil exploration to 2.2 million square kilometers. To put that in perspective, this is larger than the entire area of Saudi Arabia....
Governor DeWine appoints Brigadier General Mark C. Arnold to OHIO Board of Trustees
Ohio University
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September 7, 2025
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has appointed Brigadier General Mark C. Arnold to the Ohio University Board of Trustees. General Arnold was appointed by Gov. DeWine on June 27, 2025. His term will end May 13, 2027. “The Board of Trustees is honored to...
Bradford NHS team supports health research in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Telegraph & Argus
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Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust has played a key role in the international project, aimed supporting mental and physical health in the two countries. The initiative is part of a wider programme funded by the National Institute for...
A Persian in the Ranks: Rethinking Military Culture through the Life of a Forgotten Civil War Sharpshooter
Small Wars Journal
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July 11, 2025
In military history, the West often casts itself as having invented the clean, decisive, and morally superior way of war. From Victor Davis Hanson to popular portrayals of elite modern forces, the story is familiar: Western armies fight in fair,...
Outrage after Afghan man, 45, marries 6yo child bride as Taliban say he can’t have her until she’s nine
The West Australian
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July 11, 2025
A 45-year-old Afghan man has caused global outrage after he married a six-year-old girl. The man, who already has two wives, reportedly paid the little girl’s family money to take her as his bride. Hasht-e Subh Daily, an independent Afghan media...
Iran expels half a million Afghans in 16-day stretch since recent conflict with Israel, UN says
CNN
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July 11, 2025
CNN — More than half a million Afghans have been expelled from Iran in the 16 days since the conflict with Israel ended, according to the United Nations, in what may be one of the largest forced movements of population this decade. For months,...
World News | WHO Warns of Rising Spread of Infectious Diseases Among Deported Afghan Migrants, Calls for Increasing Medical Resources
Latestly
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July 11, 2025
Kabul [Afghanistan], July 11 (ANI): The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued a warning regarding the rising spread of infectious diseases among Afghan migrants deported from neighbouring nations amid poor sanitary conditions, Khaama Press...
Donald Trump or Al Capone? The alarming rise of America’s gangster politics
Weekly Blitz
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July 10, 2025
In his second term in the White House, Donald Trump is increasingly exhibiting characteristics reminiscent of a mafia boss rather than a democratic statesman. His behavior, marked by threats, vendettas, and political bullying, more closely mirrors...
Russia returns to Afghanistan
Business Recorder
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July 10, 2025
EDITORIAL: The irony could not be more exquisite. Russia has become the first country to formally recognise the Taliban regime in Afghanistan — three decades after the Soviet Union was bled out of the same country by the Taliban’s ideological...
Bizarre tourism video invites Americans to visit Afghanistan
The Independent (U.S.)
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July 9, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Afghanistan on brink of emergency as mass deportations accelerate, UN Warns
Ariana News
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July 9, 2025
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has issued a stark warning that the country faces a rapidly unfolding humanitarian emergency due to a dramatic increase in the forced return of Afghan migrants from neighboring...
San Diego contestant on 'The Great American Recipe' shares his Afghan food and roots
KPBS - California
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July 10, 2025
"The Great American Recipe" season 4 premieres this weekend — you can begin streaming it Friday on the PBS app, or watch Mondays at 9 p.m. on KPBS-TV beginning July 14. The PBS show "The Great American Recipe" follows a group of home cooks as they...
Humanitarian Corridors enables the arrival of over 100 Afghan refugees
Vatican News
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July 10, 2025
As part of the Humanitarian Corridors initiative, a group of 119 Afghan refugees have arrived in Rome from Pakistan. By Kielce Gussie A flight from Islamabad, Pakistan, carrying 119 Afghan refugees arrived at Rome’s Fiumicino airport on 10 July....
Afghanistan’s ICC umpire Jan Shinwari dies at 41
Gulf News
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International Cricket Council (ICC) Chairman Jay Shah expressed deep sorrow at Shinwari’s passing. “Bismillah was a prominent umpire respected by players, peers, and officials alike. He was a regular on the international circuit and had a long...