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Morning Update: Federal budget will prioritize clean electricity in face of U.S. competition
Manitoba Hydro power lines just outside Winnipeg, Monday, May 1, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods
opinion
The Taliban, Afghanistan’s governing terrorists, face a terror problem of their own
Ruchi Kumar
world
Earthquake in Afghanistan kills at least 11, nine of them in Pakistan
The Chiatibo glacier in the Hindu Kush mountain range is seen in Pakistan, October 16, 2019. Neil Hall/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
british columbia
UBC program opens the door for former Afghan judges to study law
Judge Bibi Wahida Rahimi, pictured here, has accepted a two-year position as a research associate through the new Afghan Women Judges Program at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C. March 10, 2023.
opinion
Ottawa is set to finally allow Canadian aid to reach Afghanistan. What took so long?
Allan Rock and Warda Shazadi Meighen
politics
Ottawa introduces legislation to make it easier for aid groups to work in Afghanistan
Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino speaks during a press conference following a media technical briefing on the tabling of legislation to alter terrorism provisions of the Criminal Code that have blocked Canadian humanitarian aid from reaching Afghanistan, at the Canadian Red Cross in Ottawa, on Thursday, March 9, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
politics
Liberals to amend terrorism provisions of Criminal Code that block aid to Afghanistan
Minister of Public Safety Marco Mendicino rises during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, March 7, 2023. The Trudeau government will table legislation this morning to alter the terrorism provisions of the Criminal Code, which have blocked Canadian humanitarians from working in Afghanistan. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
world
Afghan women train as midwives for remote villages
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politics
Under the Taliban, Afghanistan’s women health care workers may work but under supervision
Afghan people stand with food aid being distributed by a non-governmental organisation (NGO) at a gymnasium in Kabul on January 17, 2023. - At least three leading international aid agencies have partially resumed life-saving work in Afghanistan, after assurances from the Taliban authorities that Afghan women can continue to work in the health sector. (Photo by Wakil KOHSAR / AFP) (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)
world
Canadian NGO bridges education gap for Afghan girls affected by Taliban ban
An Afghan girl reads the Koran in a madrasa or religious school in Kabul, Afghanistan, October 8, 2022. REUTERS/Ali Khara
politics
Afghanistan envoy defies Taliban to keep embassy running, seeks Canadian aid fix
Hassan Soroosh, the pre-Taliban ambassador of Afghanistan is seen in a portrait at the Embassy of The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in Ottawa, on Monday, March 6, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
british columbia
Members of an Afghan refugee family killed in multi-vehicle crash in B.C.
B.C. Premier David Eby makes an announcement in Vancouver on Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022. Three members of a family that had newly arrived from Afghanistan were the victims of a multi-vehicle crash in British Columbia's Interior on Wednesday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
world
Afghan Nobel Peace Prize nominee Mahbouba Seraj calls for Taliban talks
Human rights' activist Mahbouba Seraj talks during an interview at her home in Kabul, Afghanistan September 28, 2021. Photo/Asmaa Waguih
world
Death toll at 62 for migrant boat shipwreck off Italy, including children
A woman lays a tribute outside PalaMilone sports hall, where victims' coffins are kept in the aftermath of a deadly migrant shipwreck, in Crotone, Italy, February 27, 2023. REUTERS/Remo Casilli
world
At least 59 dead after migrant boat breaks apart off Italy, 80 survivors rescued
Italian Red Cross volunteers and coast guards recover a body after a migrant boat broke apart in rough seas, at a beach near Cutro, southern Italy, Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023. Rescue officials say an undetermined number of migrants have died and dozens have been rescued after their boat broke apart off southern Italy.(Antonino Durso/LaPresse via AP)
u.s. politics
House Republicans open another investigation of Afghanistan withdrawal
House Oversight Chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., opens a House Committee on Oversight and Accountability hearing on the border, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
world
Media watchdog urges release of journalist detained in Kabul
FILE PHOTO: A Taliban fighter is seen at the Taliban flag-raising ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 31, 2022.REUTERS/Ali Khara/File Photo
world
Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan martial ruler who backed U.S. during 9/11 wars, dies
FILE - Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf addresses the U.N. General Assembly on Nov. 10, 2001, at the United Nations headquarters in New York. An official said Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan military ruler who backed US war in Afghanistan after 9/11, has died. (AP Photo/Beth Keiser, File)
world
Pakistani troops kill two militants in raid near Afghan border
Cricket fans hold Pakistan flag as they wait to enter the National Cricket Stadium before start the first Twenty20 international cricket match between Pakistan and England in Karachi on September 20, 2022. (Photo by Rizwan TABASSUM / AFP) (Photo by RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP via Getty Images)
world
Pakistan mosque bomber disguised himself in a police uniform, provincial chief says
Members of the media and others gather at the site of Monday's suicide bombing, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Feb. 2, 2023. A suicide bomber who killed 101 people at a mosque in northwest Pakistan this week had disguised himself in a police uniform and did not raise suspicion among guards, the provincial police chief said on Thursday. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)
analysis
Once aligned, Pakistan and Afghan Taliban being torn apart by violence, mistrust
Rescue workers gather to remove the rubble to look for survivors, after a suicide blast in a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan January 30, 2023. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz
world
Afghan female students not allowed to sit university entrance exam, says Taliban ministry
FILE - Afghan women students stand outside the Kabul University in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Dec. 21, 2022. The United Nations' human rights chief on Tuesday Dec. 27, 2022 decried increasing restrictions on women's rights in Afghanistan, urging the country's Taliban rulers to reverse them immediately. He pointed to “terrible consequences” of a decision to bar women from working for non-governmental organizations. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)
world
Afghan malnutrition rates at record high, UN food agency says
Mothers along with babies who suffer from malnutrition wait to receive help and check-up at a clinic that run by the WFP, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. A spokesman for the U.N. food agency says malnutrition rates in Afghanistan are at record highs. Aid agencies have been providing food, education, healthcare and other critical support to people, but distribution has been severely impacted by a Taliban edict banning women from working at national and international nongovernmental groups. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
world
UN says Taliban divided on appeal to restore women’s rights
File - A Save the Children nutrition counsellor, right, explains to Nelab, 22, how to feed her 11-month-old daughter, Parsto, with therapeutic food, which is used to treat severe acute malnutrition, in Sar-e-Pul province of Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. (Save the Children via AP, File)
opinion
Ottawa, and the lessons unlearned in Afghanistan
The Editorial Board
politics
MPs had been helping Afghan woman lawmaker come to Canada before she was killed
A woman looks at a picture of former Afghan lawmaker Mursal Nabizada on her mobile phone, who was shot dead by gunmen last night at her house in Kabul on January 15, 2023. - Mursal Nabizada had been a member of parliament in the previous Western-backed regime who had turned down the opportunity to flee Afghanistan when the Taliban seized power in August 2021. "Nabizada, along with one of her bodyguards, was shot dead at her house," Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said on January 15. (Photo by Wakil KOHSAR / AFP) (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)
world
Former female Afghan MP shot dead in Kabul home, police say
A woman looks at a picture of former Afghan lawmaker Mursal Nabizada on her mobile phone, who was shot dead by gunmen last night at her house in Kabul on January 15, 2023. - Mursal Nabizada had been a member of parliament in the previous Western-backed regime who had turned down the opportunity to flee Afghanistan when the Taliban seized power in August 2021. "Nabizada, along with one of her bodyguards, was shot dead at her house," Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said on January 15. (Photo by Wakil KOHSAR / AFP) (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)
olympics
Australia withdraw from ODI series against Afghanistan in March
FILE - Afghanistan's Rashid Khan celebrates the dismissal of Pakistan's Shadab Khan during the T20 cricket match of Asia Cup between Pakistan and Afghanistan, in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates on Sept. 7, 2022. Inexperience in Australia’s sometimes hostile batting conditions isn’t likely to unnerve an Afghan cricket team that is all too familiar with having to overcome adversity. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File)
world
Prince Harry’s new memoir Spare draws anger and protests in Afghanistan
FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2012 file photo Britain's Prince Harry or just plain Captain Wales as he is known in the British Army, wears his monocle gun sight as he sits in the front seat of his cockpit at the British controlled flight-line in Camp Bastion southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/ John Stillwell, File)
world
Taliban criticizes Prince Harry over Afghan killings comment
FILE - Britain's Prince Harry on patrol through the deserted town of Garmisir Jan. 2, 2008, close to FOB (forward operating base) Delhi, where he was posted in Helmand province Southern Afghanistan. Prince Harry alleges in a much-anticipated new memoir that his brother Prince William lashed out and physically attacked him during a furious argument over the brothers’ deteriorating relationship. The book “Spare" also included incendiary revelations about the estranged royal’s drug-taking, first sexual encounter and role in killing people during his military service in Afghanistan. (John Stillwell, Pool Photo via AP, File)
world
Afghanistan’s Taliban administration to sign oil extraction deal with Chinese company
A Taliban fighter stands guard along a street in Kabul on December 27, 2022. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
world
Islamic State group claims responsibility for deadly bombing near checkpoint at Kabul military airport
Taliban fighters check the site of an explosion, near the Interior Ministry, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023. A bomb exploded near a checkpoint at Kabul's military airport Sunday morning killing and wounding several people, a Taliban official said, the first deadly blast of 2023 in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
world
Taliban seeks economic self-sufficiency and foreign investment for Afghanistan
An Afghan man walks past the office of a foreign aid group 'Care' in downtown Kabul on December 26, 2022. - Several foreign aid groups announced on December 25 they were suspending their operations in Afghanistan after the country's Taliban rulers ordered all NGOs to stop women staff from working. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
world
UN official meets Taliban deputy premier over women NGO ban
A Taliban fighter stands guard as a woman walks past in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Dec. 26, 2022. Recent Taliban rulings on Afghan women include bans on university education and working for NGOs. Security in the capital Kabul has intensified in recent days, with more checkpoints, armed vehicles, and Taliban special forces on the streets. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
world
Kabul checkpoint bomb blast kills, wounds several
Taliban fighters check the site of an explosion, near the Interior Ministry, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023. A bomb exploded near a checkpoint at Kabul's military airport Sunday morning killing and wounding several people, a Taliban official said, the first deadly blast of 2023 in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
politics
Canada, other countries, urge Taliban to reverse its decision banning women from working at NGOs