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Nation records highest death toll for the pandemic following grim two weeks of rising numbers – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Taliban storm Kabul apartment, arrest activist, her sisters

The Taliban have stormed an apartment in Kabul, arresting a woman rights activist and her three sisters

The Independent UK

Turkey, Qatar reached pending deal on Kabul airport security -Turkish sources

Turkey and Qatar have reached an agreement on ensuring security at Kabul's main airport should they be awarded the mission amid ongoing talks with the Taliban government, Turkish diplomatic sources said on Thursday.

Reuters

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Pentagon releases footage of deadly Kabul drone strike

The surveillance is the first to be made public and shows the strike that killed 10 civilians, including seven children.

Al Jazeera

Afghan women activists go into hiding after Taliban crackdown

Kabul (AFP) - Several Afghan women's rights activists said Thursday they are going into hiding to escape a Taliban crackdown, just days after the hardline Islamists used pepper spray to break up a rally in the capital.

AFP

Afghan women losing jobs fast as economy shrinks and rights curtailed

In a small tailoring workshop in Kabul, 29-year-old Afghan entrepreneur Sohaila Noori looks on as her dramatically reduced workforce of around 30 women sew scarves, dresses and baby clothes.

Reuters

Ancient Afghan minaret in danger of 'collapse' after quakes

Kabul (AFP) - An 800-year-old minaret considered one of the finest examples of Islamic architecture in Afghanistan was damaged by two earthquakes this week and is in danger of collapse, an official has said.

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Stay or go? Dilemma facing last of the Afghan Sikhs

Kabul (AFP) - The caretaker of the last Sikh temple in Kabul to regularly host open prayer surveys the cavernous hall where throngs once gathered in worship.

AFP

US releases video of Afghanistan drone strike that killed 10 civilians

Pentagon declassifies footage from Kabul strike it defended but later admitted was an ‘honest mistake’

The Guardian - AU

Pentagon releases first video of botched Kabul airstrike

The Pentagon has declassified and publicly released video footage of a U.S. drone strike in Kabul that killed 10 civilians in the final hours of a chaotic American withdrawal that ended a 20-year war in Afghanistan

The Independent UK

Released Video Footage Shows Disastrous U.S. Drone Strike That Killed Kabul Family

Surveillance clearly shows children nearby as strike was called on man mistaken for a terrorist.

Reason

Declassified footage shows disastrous US drone strike in Kabul that killed 10 civilians

The US military called the strike a ‘tragic mistake’

The Independent UK

Taliban economy conference in Kabul stresses need for funds

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have held their first economic conference, five months since taking over the country that is now teetering on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe and economic collapse

The Independent UK

Why things turned so bad for America in 2021, and Joe Biden’s promised ‘return to normal’

Any leader would have struggled in the circumstances, but Biden’s campaign promises set the new president a high bar, writes Andrew Buncombe

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Government will continue to bring eligible Afghans to the UK ‘indefinitely’

Armed Forces Minister James Heappey said around 250 people were being brought out a week, mostly via Pakistan.

The Guardian - UK

‘In Kabul there’s no justice’: the female student who fled to Pakistan

After the collapse of the Afghan capital, Amina says what followed was worse than she could imagine

AFP

Taliban PM calls for Muslim nations to recognise Afghan government

Kabul (AFP) - The Taliban's prime minister called Wednesday on Muslim nations to be the first to officially recognise their government, as aid-dependent Afghanistan faces economic collapse.

Reuters

Afghan acting PM calls for official recognition of Taliban administration

Afghanistan's acting prime minister, Mullah Hasan Akhund, on Wednesday called for international governments to officially recognise the country's Taliban administration, saying at a news conference in Kabul that all conditions had been met.

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The Independent UK

British soldiers who rescued thousands from Kabul during Taliban takeover awarded medals

Evacuation was UK’s biggest humanitarian operation since World War Two

The Independent UK

Troops to receive new medal recognising heroism in Afghanistan evacuation

The Prime Minister said he was ‘delighted’ that Armed Forces personnel would be recognised for ‘their heroism in the face of extreme adversity’.

AFP

Desperate Afghans queue for free bread as poverty crisis deepens

Kabul (AFP) - In the early hours of each morning, Muhajira rushes in freezing temperatures to a modest bakery in the Afghan capital to wait for warm naan bread to be distributed.

The Guardian - UK

‘We’ve been forgotten’: the British embassy security guard in Kabul

Abdullah says guards who risked their lives for the British cannot understand why they have been abandoned

Zenger

Family Rescued From Afghanistan Gives Thanks To Project Dynamo

The nonprofit has rescued more than 2,000 people since the country fell to the Taliban in August 2021.

Al Jazeera

Taliban says all Afghan girls will be back in school by March

Senior Taliban leader Zabihullah Mujahid says the group is looking to open classrooms for all girls by March 21.

The Guardian - UK

‘We are struggling’: two former officials at Afghan women’s affairs ministry

Gul Bano and Karima’s former offices are in the hands of the Taliban – and they fear for their lives

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