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‘This is no life’: Trump deportees unable to return home left in limbo in Panama

People who left countries such as Afghanistan and Nigeria in fear of their lives feel abandoned in Central America

The Guardian - US

Afghan women secretly go online for education amid Taliban crackdown

The Taliban is increasingly banning women from the public sphere, but they refuse to give up on their dreams

The Independent UK

UN's Guterres launches regional centre in Kazakhstan to drive sustainable development

The UN secretary-general and the president of Kazakhstan held talks in Almaty and signed an agreement on the UN regional hub, which is meant to strengthen cooperation in Central Asia and support Afghanistan’s sustainable development.

Euronews

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The world nearly beat polio. Here’s what got in the way

Fake immunisation records, an imperfect vaccine, and leadership missteps have enabled polio’s comeback, an investigation found.

Euronews

Takeaways from AP's report on problems in the worldwide campaign to eradicate polio

The World Health Organization has closed in on its bold goal of eradicating polio several times, but the paralytic virus is entrenched in parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan

The Independent UK

PHOTO ESSAY: Religious schools fill the education gap for Afghan boys

In Kabul’s alleys and courtyards, boys in white caps and tunics recite verses from the Quran in a growing network of madrassas, the religious schools increasingly filling the gaps in Afghanistan’s fractured education system.

The Independent UK

The world nearly beat polio. But fake records, an imperfect vaccine and missteps aided its comeback

The World Health Organization has closed in on its bold goal of eradicating polio several times, but the paralytic virus is entrenched in parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan

The Independent UK

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Afghanistan has its 'sharpest surge' ever of child malnutrition, UN agency says

The World Food Program says Afghanistan is having its sharpest-ever surge of child malnutrition

The Independent UK

Friendship at 13,000 feet: how climbing in the Swiss Alps is bringing refugees together

A mountaineering project in Switzerland helps exiles from countries such as Afghanistan, Iran and Ukraine recover from trauma by conquering summits

The Guardian - UK

Pakistan and Afghanistan pen UAE T20 tri-series before Asia Cup

Tri-series between UAE, Pakistan and Afghanistan hastily penned as warm-up for Asia Cup and T20 World Cup.

Al Jazeera

Infantino says ‘important step’ taken for Afghan women’s football

FIFA President Gianni Infantino hails first talent camp staged for Afghanistan women’s refugee football team.

Al Jazeera

Texas man indicted for fatally shooting Afghan refugee who had helped US troops defuse bombs

The brother of an Afghan refugee who helped U.S. forces defuse bombs in Afghanistan has expressed frustration over the delay in indicting the man accused of fatally shooting his sibling

The Independent UK

The Guardian view on the other Afghan scandal: countries are forcing refugees back to Taliban rule

Editorial: The British government’s secret scheme to bring those at risk to the UK has dominated headlines, but, worldwide, many times more are losing protection

The Guardian - UK

Thousands Of Afghans Scramble For Chance To Work In Qatar

When Mohammad Hanif heard Qatar was opening jobs to Afghans, he joined thousands of others to put his name down for a shot to make a living in the gas-rich emirate, his own country wracked by unemployment.

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The Muslim world has been strong on rhetoric, short on action over Gaza and Afghanistan

When it comes to dealing with two of the biggest current crises in the Muslim world – the devastation of Gaza and the Taliban’s draconian rule in Afghanistan – Arab and Muslim states have been staggeringly ineffective.

The Independent UK

The Taliban criticize neighboring countries for their mass expulsion of Afghans

A Taliban deputy minister is criticizing other countries for a mass expulsion of Afghans

The Independent UK

Afghanistan’s pioneering female tour guides are opening up the country for tourists

Girls are banned from education above primary school level, and women live under myriad restrictions

The Guardian - UK

‘This truck is our home!’ How Bobby Bolton found love and purpose on a 42,000-mile road trip

No money, no flat, no fiancee: in 2022 Bolton lost almost everything that underpinned his life. Three years and 53 countries later, he has more than rebuilt it

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The Independent UK

Hundreds of books removed from stores, libraries and universities in Afghanistan

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The Independent UK

The Taliban’s top environment official wants the UN to include Afghanistan in climate talks

The Taliban want to be included in U.N. climate talks

The Independent UK

From ‘Sapiens’ to ‘The Book of Mormon’: The banned books the Taliban deems ‘deviant’ and ‘un-Islamic’

INDEPENDENT PERSIAN: Hundreds of titles removed from shelves for being ‘against national interests’, reports Mukhtar Wafayee

Evening Standard

Taliban fighters 'have been brought to the UK on secret airlift flights' after Afghanistan data breach

Earlier this month, a database containing the details of 100,000 Afghans who had applied for sanctuary in the UK was mistakenly leaked

The Guardian - UK

Shackled, malnourished and suffering convulsions: son of UK couple imprisoned in Afghanistan warns situation ‘escalating’ and they could die

Barbie and Peter Reynolds, who were arrested by the Taliban in February, were kept underground for six weeks without daylight, their son says

The Independent UK

Afghans exposed in huge MoD data leak could get thousands in compensation

Some 18,700 Afghan applicants to UK resettlement scheme had their personal details leak in Ministry of Defence blunder

LiveScience

Kabul could become the first modern capital to run out of water — here's why

Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul has an existential water problem and other cities may also be vulnerable.

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