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Afghan Taliban, Myanmar junta not allowed into UN for now
Dec 17, 2022 10:35The UN General Assembly has for the second time approved postponing a decision on whether the Afghan Taliban administration and the Myanmar’s military junta can send a UN ambassador to New York.
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UK to hold inquiry into reports of Afghan civilians killed by British Special Forces
Dec 16, 2022 03:11Britain's military has announced it would launch an inquiry into reports that its Special Forces carried out dozens of extrajudicial killings in Afghanistan.
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Hotel in Kabul attacked, 3 gunmen shot, no foreigners killed
Dec 12, 2022 11:29At least three gunmen have been shot by security forces in Afghanistan following a terror attack on a hotel in the capital Kabul, Taliban officials say.
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At least seven dead, six injured as blast rips through bus in northern Afghanistan
Dec 06, 2022 12:35At least seven people have been killed and six others sustained injuries after a roadside bomb explosion ripped through a bus carrying the employees of a petroleum company in Afghanistan’s northern Province of Balkh.
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Nations split on plastics treaty focus as UN talks close
Dec 03, 2022 11:23The first round of negotiations on a global plastics treaty ended on Friday with a split on whether goals and efforts should be global and mandatory, or voluntary and country-led.
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At least 16 killed, mostly children, as bombing hits school in northern Afghanistan
Nov 30, 2022 12:07At least 16 people have been killed, mostly children, and dozens of others injured in a powerful explosion at a religious school in northern Afghanistan’s city of Aybak, the capital of Samangan Province.
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Iranian embassy distributes winter fuel among poor in Kabul
Nov 22, 2022 06:25Afghan people have gathered to receive winter fuel in the form of coal and wood, distributed by the Iranian embassy in Kabul to warm the cold days in winter.
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United Nations refuses to recognize Taliban interim government
Nov 14, 2022 04:12A resolution was recently presented to the UN General Assembly for the first time after the Taliban took over Afghanistan.
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Iran's envoy: Current situation in Afghanistan result of foreign military intervention
Nov 11, 2022 05:31Iran's ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations (UN) says the ongoing situation in Afghanistan is the result of foreign military intervention with the purported aims of combating terrorism and bringing democracy to the chaos-ridden country.
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Afghans denounce Biden calling the country a Godforsaken place
Nov 08, 2022 04:39US President Joe Biden recounted his trips to Afghanistan in a recent speech to war veterans, including one in 2008 in which he was stranded in snow. In his remarks, he repeatedly disparaged Afghanistan as a God-forsaken place. The Taliban say his words are out of frustration.