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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....
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...
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...
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,...
Afghan returnees from Iran face homelessness, joblessness; UNHCR seeks urgent aid
California Telegraph
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Kabul [Afghanistan], July 5 (ANI): A large number of Afghans recently deported from Iran are facing severe challenges, including homelessness, unemployment, and lack of immediate support, TOLO News reported. TOLO News stated that returnees have...
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,...
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...
Afghan Woman Transforms (Karlovy Vary Film Trailer)
Recently Heard
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July 5, 2025
The specter of demise lurks round each nook in Cinema Jazireh, whether or not within the type of the Taliban or the desert. The second function from Turkey’s Gözde Kural (Mud) is ready in Afghanistan and can world premiere on Thursday as one of...
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...
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...
Pod of War
Mother Jones
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July 22, 2025
Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. They entered in tight formation. There was Eddie Gallagher, the alleged war criminal Navy SEAL granted clemency by President Donald...
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...
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...
Afghans in MoD data breach can claim £4,000 compensation
The Times
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Afghans who had their “lives put at risk” because of a data breach have been told they can claim up to £4,000 in compensation four years after the incident happened. Human error resulted in the personal information of 265 Afghans who had worked...
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,...
In ‘Cinema Jazireh,’ a Woman Dresses up as a Man in Taliban Afghanistan in Search of Her Son, Hope
The Hollywood Reporter - California
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July 10, 2025
Afghanistan under the rule of the Taliban is the setting of Cinema Jazireh, Turkish filmmaker Gözde Kural’s second feature. She wrote, directed and also edited, together with Bünyamin Bayansal, the film, which is world premiering in the Crystal...
Afghan interim gov't welcomes Russia's decision to grant diplomatic recognition
Xinhua News Agency
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KABUL, July 5 (Xinhua) -- The Afghan interim government's chief spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid has welcomed the decision of the Russian Federation to recognize the "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan" as the de jure administration of the post-war...
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...