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A thread from the India-Myanmar border in Mizoram. In late Nov, @Chchavarte & I spent some days with a nine-member refugee family. This is the story of Mah Tial who fled the town of Thantlang. "I don't think about going back to Myanmar soon," she said. https://t.co/EYuQpvDTY6
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For more than a decade, Mah Tial said she ran a small store in Thantlang, a town in northwest Myanmar, making enough money to send her four children to school and see her eldest daughter secure a...
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The United Nations has paid nearly $8 million in salaries to some 23,500 health workers across Afghanistan over the past month, bypassing the Taliban-run health ministry in a test case to inject much needed liquidity into a dire Afghan economy https://t.co/lA5tqvTEKN
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Mawlavi Ezzatullah's killing last month was one of a steady stream of assassinations and bombings that have undermined Taliban claims that they have brought greater security to Afghanistan after 40 years of war https://t.co/Zk3ZThOgjo
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Islamic State violence dents Taliban claims of safer Afghanistan
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Last month, the family of Mawlavi Ezzatullah, a member of Afghanistan's Hizb-e Islami party, received a WhatsApp message from his phone: "We have slaughtered your Mawlavi Ezzat, come and collect his...
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Dolphin that strayed is moved to sanctuary in Pakistan
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An endangered grey dolphin twitches its flippers weakly as it lies in a truck speeding towards a sanctuary in Pakistan, while rescuers sprinkle water on the animal to keep its skin moist and save it...
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The Taliban appointed 44 of its members to key roles including provincial governors and police chiefs
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The Taliban appointed 44 of its members to key roles including provincial governors and police chiefs on Sunday, a key step in shoring up its governance as the country grapples with growing security...
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Afghanistan players are not fretting over what the future may hold for the team and are instead pre-occupied with the task of making the semi-finals of the Twenty20 World Cup, spinner Rashid Khan said #T20WorldCup
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A banned Islamist group prepared to march on Pakistan's capital Islamabad despite last minute negotiations with the government that the country's interior minister said were deadlocked
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Four Pakistani police were killed and hundreds wounded when armed activists from a banned Islamist group clashed with security forces at an anti-blasphemy demonstration near the eastern city of Lahore, officials said
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Pakistan says it is ready to consider most of Islamist group's demands
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When the Taliban seized Afghanistan, lawyer Bibi Chaman Hafizi heard the militants were going door to door, hunting for people who worked for the state, so she burned every document in her home and went into hiding. Then she fled the country
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When the Taliban seized Afghanistan, lawyer Bibi Chaman Hafizi heard the militants were going door to door, hunting for people who worked for the state, so she burned every document in her home and...
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Pakistan beat India in a World Cup match for the first time ever with a 10-wicket win in a Super 12 match at the #T20WorldCup2021
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The Red Cross urged the international community to engage with Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers, saying that aid groups on their own would be unable to stave off a humanitarian crisis
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The Red Cross on Friday urged the international community to engage with Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers, saying that aid groups on their own would be unable to stave off a humanitarian crisis.
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Exclusive: U.S. hopes to soon relocate Afghan pilots who fled to Tajikistan, official says
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The United States hopes to soon relocate around 150 U.S.-trained Afghan Air Force pilots and other personnel detained in Tajikistan for more than two months after they flew there at the end of the...
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Three Pakistani police killed in clashes with banned Islamists
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Three Pakistani police were killed in clashes on Friday with demonstrators from a banned Islamist group who rallied to demand the release of their leader and the expulsion of the French ambassador...
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A group of Afghan women urged the United Nations to block the Taliban from gaining a seat at the world body, calling for better representation for their country during a visit to the organization's New York headquarters https://t.co/QklRd39y8H
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A former Taliban commander previously accused of kidnapping an American journalist is expected to plead not guilty on Friday to murdering three U.S. troops in Afghanistan in 2008
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A former Taliban commander previously accused of kidnapping an American journalist pleaded not guilty on Friday to murdering three U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan in 2008, telling a federal judge that...
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World soccer's governing body FIFA said it had worked with the Qatari government to evacuate almost 100 football players and their families from Afghanistan
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