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Girls’ education raised at Taliban’s first national gathering since takeover
(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 23, 2022, Girls attend a class after their school reopened in Kabul. - The US has cancelled planned talks in Doha with the Taliban after the hardline Islamist rulers of Afghanistan shut girls secondary schools on March 23, 2022, US officials said. "We have cancelled some of our engagements, including planned meetings in Doha around the Doha Forum, and made clear that we see this decision as a potential turning point in our engagement," a State Department spokesperson said. (Photo by Ahmad SAHEL ARMAN / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD SAHEL ARMAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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Afghan-Canadians, aid advocates urge Canada to support earthquake relief efforts
Afghan children line up for bread at a camp after an earthquake in Gayan district in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Sunday, June 26, 2022. A powerful earthquake struck a rugged, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, flattening stone and mud-brick homes in the country's deadliest quake in two decades, the state-run news agency reported. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Nooroozi)
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Taliban, U.S. officials to meet for talks amid ongoing earthquake relief efforts in Afghanistan
FILE PHOTO: Afghan men search for survivors amidst the debris of a house that was destroyed by an earthquake in Gayan, Afghanistan, June 23, 2022. REUTERS/Ali Khara/File Photo
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Survivors of Afghan quake struggle to find shelter
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Destruction everywhere, help scarce after Afghanistan quake
Taliban fighter guards aid at the camp site for the survivors of an earthquake in Gayan district in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Sunday, June 26, 2022. A powerful earthquake struck a rugged, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, flattening stone and mud-brick homes in the country's deadliest quake in two decades, the state-run news agency reported. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Nooroozi)
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Taliban calls for sanctions rollback, release of frozen funds after deadly earthquake
Tents set up by the government for aid distribution to people affected by the earthquake, in the Gayan district of Afghanistan, June 24, 2022. With the economy in ruins and aid in short supply, survivors of the earthquake that killed around a thousand in a remote area of eastern Afghanistan wonder what their next move could be. (Kiana Hayeri/The New York Times)
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U.S. repatriates Afghan whose ‘unlawful’ Guantánamo detention lasted 15 years
**EDS: PHOTO HAS BEEN REVIEWED BY U.S. MILITARY CENSORS.** A watchtower at the Guantánamo Bay detention center, in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, April 17, 2019. Nearly two decades after it was opened to house terrorism suspects and enemy fighters, the military prison in Cuba remains shrouded in secrecy. A trip put on by the U.S. military, which upheld strict photography rules, showed the base to be a mix of the mundane and extraordinary. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
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Afghans rush to bury dead, dig for survivors after powerful earthquake kills at least 1,000
Afghans sift through destruction after an earthquake in Gayan village, in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Thursday, June 23, 2022. A powerful earthquake struck a rugged, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, flattening stone and mud-brick homes in the country's deadliest quake in two decades, the state-run news agency reported. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Nooroozi)
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At least 1,000 dead, 1,500 injured after powerful earthquake strikes eastern Afghanistan
In this photo released by a set-run news agency Bakhtar, Afghans look at destruction caused by an earthquake in the province of Paktika, eastern Afghanistan, Wednesday, June 22, 2022. (Bakhtar News Agency via AP)
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Canada is shirking its responsibility to Afghans by hiding behind counterterrorism financing laws
Jessica Davis
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Morning Update: Taliban searching for Afghans they claim are Canadian spies
Sadia standing with David Metcalfe, who was Canada’s ambassador to Afghanistan at the time, on International Women’s Day in 2020.
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‘We are at risk’: Taliban tracking 200 Afghans they claim are Canadian spies
Sadia standing with David Metcalfe, who was Canada’s ambassador to Afghanistan at the time, on International Women’s Day in 2020.
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Blast hits Sikh temple in Afghan capital Kabul, temple official says
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Afghan teen lands full scholarship at prestigious Vancouver Island school
Marina studies in the Shawnigan Lake School library, June 14th 2022 Taylor Roades / The Globe and Mail
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Afghanistan’s opium trade thriving under local Taliban officials despite narcotics ban
Farmers scrape opium from poppy bulbs during the spring harvest in Kandahar, Afghanistan, April 4, 2022. The Taliban have outlawed the multibillion-dollar opium trade, but poppy cultivation has boomed as farmers shift to green energy, which has generated bumper harvests amid a national economic crisis. (Bryan Denton/The New York Times)
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Morning Update: Anti-terrorism laws impede efforts to evacuate Afghans
A Taliban fighter stands guard as people receive food rations distributed by a South Koren humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, May 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
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Ottawa’s anti-terrorism laws hinder efforts to evacuate Afghans loyal to Canada out of Afghanistan
A Taliban fighter stands guard as people receive food rations distributed by a South Koren humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, May 10, 2022. Afghanistan is expected 1.1 million children under the age of 5 will face malnutrition in the country by the end of this year, as hospitals wards are packed with sick children for sever hunger and malnutrition. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
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Blast in Kabul mosque, Islamic State bombs in north Afghanistan kill 14
An injured man is transported to a hospital after a bombing in Mazar-e-Sharif, northern Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. A series of explosions shook Afghanistan on Wednesday, the Taliban said, including a blast inside a mosque in the capital of Kabul that killed at least five worshippers and three bombings of minivans in the country's north that killed nine passengers. (AP Photo/Masih Paeiz)
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Taliban enforces face-cover order for female TV anchors
TV anchor Khatereh Ahmadi wears a face covering as she reads the news on TOLO NEWS, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, May 22, 2022. Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have begun enforcing an order requiring all female TV news anchors in the country to cover their faces while on-air. The move Sunday is part of a hard-line shift drawing condemnation from rights activists. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
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Rising militant violence hurting Pakistan’s relations with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers
FILE - A Pakistani paramilitary soldier, right, and a Taliban fighter stand guard on their respective sides at a border crossing point between Pakistan and Afghanistan, in Torkham, in the Khyber district of Pakistan, Aug. 21, 2021. Faced with rising violence, Pakistan is taking a tougher line to pressure Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to crack down on militants hiding on their soil, but so far the Taliban remain reluctant to take action -- trying instead to broker a peace. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad, File)
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Taliban dissolve Afghanistan’s Human Rights Commission, other key bodies
Taliban attend a ceremony to announce the decree for Afghan women's dress code in Kabul on May 7, 2022. - The Taliban on May 7 imposed some of the harshest restrictions on Afghanistan's women since they seized power, ordering them to cover fully in public, ideally with the traditional burqa. (Photo by Ahmad SAHEL ARMAN / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD SAHEL ARMAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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UN holds emergency meeting on Taliban crackdown on women
A Taliban fighter walks among people waiting to receive food rations distributed by a South Korea humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, May 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
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Justin Trudeau says it is ‘completely atrocious’ that Taliban is targeting Afghans who worked for Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes part in a joint press conference with Latvian Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins, not shown, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday, May 12, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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If Canada has a ‘feminist’ foreign policy, why are we ignoring the war on Afghanistan’s women?
Mellissa Fung and Zahra Nader
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Many Afghan women pushing back against Taliban orders to cover up
A girl sits in front of a bakery in the crowd with Afghan women waiting to receive bread in Kabul, Afghanistan, January 31, 2022. REUTERS/Ali Khara
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Morning Update: Rogers plan to win approval for Shaw takeover falls short, watchdog says
A Shaw retail store is photographed at MarketMall in Calgary, AB on 09 May, 2022. 2.
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Opposition parties assail Liberals for abandoning Afghans
With Sept. 10 picked as the date for when the Conservative Party of Canada will have a new leader, time is ticking for prospective candidates and their teams to get into place. Conservative MP Michael Chong has decided to not run. Chong is shown during Question Period in the House of Commons Monday May 31, 2021 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Evening Update: Afghans face Taliban torture while waiting on Canada’s promise of safety
A Taliban fighter stands guard as a man enters the government passport office, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, April 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
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‘My life is in danger’: Afghans are being tortured by the Taliban while waiting for Canada to act
A Taliban fighter stands guard as people line up to enter the government passport office, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, April 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
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Taliban divisions deepen as women rage over veil edict
A woman wearing a burka and her children walk in front of their house in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, May 8, 2022. Afghan women are furious and fearful over a recent decree by the country's Taliban leaders that reinstated the burqa and similar outfits as mandatory for them in public. But some are defying the strict interpretation of Islamic dress codes, venturing out with less restrictive versions than that which the Taliban demanded — outfits that only reveal their eyes. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
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Taliban order Afghan women to wear head-to-toe clothing in public
FILE - Burqa-clad women walk on Nadir Khan hilltop overlooking Kabul, Afghanistan on March 16, 2017. Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on Saturday, May 7, 2022 ordered all Afghan women to wear the all-covering burqa in public, a sharp hard-line pivot that confirmed the worst fears of rights activists and was bound to further complicate Taliban dealings with an already distrustful international community. (AP Photo)
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I am an Afghan refugee, and I am daring to hope
Faizullah Abdalli
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In Afghanistan, darkness reigns as the Taliban rule
Jamaluddin Aram
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Death toll in Afghan mosque bombing rises to 33: Taliban
FILE - This frame grab image from video, shows a Taliban fighter standing guard outside the site of a bomb explosion inside a mosque, in Mazar-e-Sharif province, Afghanistan, Thursday, April 21, 2022. A deadly Islamic State affiliate on Friday, April 22, 2022, claimed a series of bombings a day earlier that targeted Afghanistan’s minority Shiite Muslims, while Pakistan issued a warning of IS threats in its eastern Punjab province. (AP Photo, File)
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Canada struggling to process Afghan refugees: PM
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