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Taliban Ban Women From Visiting Afghanistan National Park

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Taliban Ban Women From Visiting Afghanistan National Park

Established in April 2009, Band-e-Amir is Afghanistan’s first national park In another regressive move, The Taliban have banned women from visiting one of Afghanistan’s most popular national parks, BBC reported. Afghanistan’s acting minister of virtue and vice, Mohammad Khaled Hanafi, said women have not been observing the proper way to wear the hijab while visiting the park….

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Morning Digest | Neeraj Chopra wins India’s first gold at World Championships in javelin; Amit Shah urges police to adopt soft stance on tribal, student unrest; and more

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Morning Digest | Neeraj Chopra wins India’s first gold at World Championships in javelin; Amit Shah urges police to adopt soft stance on tribal, student unrest; and more

Gold medalist Neeraj Chopra of Team India celebrates with their gold medal on the podium after the Men’s Javelin Throw Final during day nine of the World Athletics Championships Budapest 2023 at National Athletics Centre on August 27, 2023 in Budapest, Hungary. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Neeraj emerges the king of the javelin Olympic…

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Tropical Storm Idalia takes aim at Gulf of Mexico on a possible track toward the U.S., forecasters say

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Tropical Storm Idalia takes aim at Gulf of Mexico on a possible track toward the U.S., forecasters say

Tropical Storm Idalia formed Sunday off the coast of Mexico on a potential track to come ashore as a hurricane in the southern U.S., the National Hurricane Center said. At 5 p.m. Sunday, the storm was about 95 miles (153 kilometers) east-southeast of Cozumel, Mexico, moving northeast at 3 mph (4.8 kph) with highest sustained…

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Zelensky says elections could happen in Ukraine under fire if West helps

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Zelensky says elections could happen in Ukraine under fire if West helps

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. File. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, responding to calls by a U.S. senator this week to announce elections in 2024, said on Sunday voting could take place during wartime if partners shared the cost, legislators approved, and everyone got to the polls. Elections cannot currently be held…

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Libyan Foreign Minister suspended over talks with Israeli counterpart

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Libyan Foreign Minister suspended over talks with Israeli counterpart

This handout picture provided by the Iranian foreign ministry shows Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (R) receiving Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush in Tehran on July 25, 2023. Photo by Iranian Foreign Ministry / AFP The leader of Libya’s government said Sunday that he had suspended his Foreign Minister after her Israeli counterpart announced he…

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France To Ban Muslim Abaya Robes In State-Run Schools

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France To Ban Muslim Abaya Robes In State-Run Schools

France will ban children from wearing the abaya in state run schools. (Representational) Paris: France will ban children from wearing the abaya, the loose-fitting, full-length robes worn by some Muslim women, in state-run schools, its education minister said on Sunday ahead of the back-to-school season. France, which has enforced a strict ban on religious signs…

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Key Johnson ally resigns with scathing attack on British PM

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Key Johnson ally resigns with scathing attack on British PM

In her resignation letter, Nadine Dorries accused Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of abandoning “the fundamental principles of Conservatism”. File | Photo Credit: Reuters A key ally of former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson formally resigned Saturday, delivering a blistering attack on his successor in her resignation letter. Former culture minister Nadine Dorries announced her intention to…

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Trump campaign reports raising more than $7 million after Georgia booking

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Trump campaign reports raising more than million after Georgia booking

Mug shot of former U.S. President Donald Trump | Photo Credit: AFP For former President Donald Trump, a picture is worth… more than $7 million. Trump’s campaign says he has raised $7.1 million since Thursday when he was booked at the Fulton County Jail in Georgia on charges that he illegally schemed to overturn the…

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Campaign Sign Of Indian Origin Woman Sarika Bansal, Running For US Town Council, Defaced

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Campaign Sign Of Indian Origin Woman Sarika Bansal, Running For US Town Council, Defaced

Sarika Bansal has been active in local government in recent years New York: The campaign sign of an Indian-origin woman running for a town council in the US state of North Carolina was vandalised, with a photo of a Black person’s face superimposed over her face, according to a media report. Sarika Bansal, the only…

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Once A Moscow Confidant, How Wagner Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Mutiny Made Him Kremlin Enemy

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Once A Moscow Confidant, How Wagner Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Mutiny Made Him Kremlin Enemy

Yevgeny Prigozhin died in a plane crash near Moscow (File) Moscow: Mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was confirmed dead on Sunday by Russia’s Investigative Committee after a plane crash near Moscow, was a Kremlin confidant catapulted to infamy by the offensive in Ukraine before he turned his troops on Russia’s capital. Yevgeny Prigozhin’s order in…

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