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☆ Black Caps tweak 2021 squad for T20 World Cup
  + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
Martin Guptill will play in his seventh T20 World Cup and Devon Conway will keep wickets in addition to his batting duties at the tournament, which starts for the Black Caps with a re-run of last year's final against Australia in Sydney on Oct. 22. Seamer Adam Milne, who was an injury replacement for Lockie Ferguson at last year's tournament in the United Arab Emirates, was retained in the absence of Kyle Jamieson, who has a back problem. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterHard-hitting batsman Allen and all-rounder Bracewell are the numeric replacements for leg spinner Todd Astle and wicketkeeper Tim Seifert, who both missed out. "With the nucleus of that squad retained along with the exciting additions of Finn and Michael, we should go into the tournament with plenty of optimism." New Zealand also face Afghanistan, England and two as yet undetermined qualifiers from the opening stage of the tournament in Group 1 of the Super 12.
☆ Taliban replaces Afghan acting education minister in reshuffle
  + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
REUTERS/Ali KharaKABUL, Sept 20 (Reuters) - The Taliban's supreme leader issued an order on Tuesday announcing a reshuffle of several national and provincial positions, including replacing the acting education minister. Acting education minister Noorullah Munir would be replaced in the role by the head of Kandahar's provincial council, Maulvi Habibullah Agha. Afghanistan's education system has been in the spotlight since the Taliban took over the country just over a year ago. The group had largely banned education of girls when last in power two decades ago but had said its policies had changed. Taliban and diplomatic sources told Reuters that last week several ministers had gathered in Kandahar for a cabinet meeting led by the supreme leader.
☆ Taliban release American engineer Frerichs in prisoner swap
  + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Mohammad Yunus Yawar | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
Noorzai was detained by the United States on suspicion of smuggling more than $50 million worth of heroin into the United States and Europe. Frerichs is an engineer and U.S. Navy veteran from Lombard, Illinois, who worked in Afghanistan for a decade on development projects. The United States has no official representation in Afghanistan and U.S. government officials elsewhere were not immediately available for comment. The United States has been pushing for the release of Frerichs, including after the Taliban took over Afghanistan in August 2021, as U.S.-led foreign forces were withdrawing. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Mohammad Yunus Yawar; Writing by Charlotte Greenfield; Editing by Toby ChopraOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
☆ Child labor, malnutrition, and education restrictions have put the future of Afghanistan's youth in peril: 'This is not the right moment to forget the people of Afghanistan'
  + stars: | 2022-09-16 | by ( Taiyler Simone Mitchell | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Surrounded by the country's economic collapse and lack of resources, the children of Afghanistan are suffering. A humanitarian aid director said that with forced labor, malnutrition, and education restrictions on the rise, the children are in need of support. With forced labor, malnutrition, and education restrictions dampening the population, Asuntha Charles, a humanitarian aid worker, told Insider that Afghan children are in urgent need of support. Charles has been working with World Vision for about two years and has lived in Afghanistan for roughly 20 years. Because the future generation is really losing lot of opportunities because of so many factors," Charles told Insider.
☆ Democrats in Congress are supporting another huge defense budget while ignoring a threat they've warned about for decades
  + stars: | 2022-09-13 | by ( Yint Hmu | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
In debates about defense spending and foreign policy, Democrats have failed to deliver on climate. The depth and scope of the IRA's approach to confronting climate change is unparalleled. Yet 180 House Democrats voted for the bill, which expanded our budget for conducting a polluting, militaristic foreign policy to nearly $850 billion. US foreign policy, militarism, and climate policy must go together. The national security community is acutely aware of the effects of climate change — they've been thinking, planning, and gaming out scenarios since the late 2000s.
☆ Taliban on the cusp of securing wheat, gas, and oil deal with Russia, officials say
  + stars: | 2022-08-31 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Taliban-led Afghanistan is set to strike a deal with Moscow soon on imports of oil and gas. Reuters cited a spokesperson from Afghanistan's ministry of economy, Habiburahman Habib, who confirmed that the officials were negotiating contracts for wheat, gas, and oil. The European Union has similarly urged its members to split from Russian oil, coal, and gas, with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen saying that EU countries "simply cannot rely on a supplier who explicitly threatens us." Afghanistan is not the only country to have boosted its energy imports from Russia. Saudi Arabia doubled its Russian oil imports in July, while Cuba started buying Russian oil that same month.
☆ A new Taliban decree orders Afghanistan's women to veil their faces in public, and if they don't comply, male relatives face punishment
  + stars: | 2022-05-07 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
The Taliban ruled that Afghan women will have to cover their faces in public. If women do not comply, their closest male relative could face imprisonment or be fired from government jobs. Most women in Afghanistan already choose to wear a headscarf but often do not cover their faces in urban areas like Kabul, Afghanistan's capital. Since taking control of Afghanistan in August of last year, the Taliban have introduced draconian laws imposing restrictions on women's freedom. The experts criticized what they described as the Taliban's "attempt to steadily erase women and girls from public life."
☆ Afghanistan is being overrun by crystal meth
  + stars: | 2021-05-07 | by ( Ali Latifi | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +14 min
The US is leaving behind a flourishing, violent trade in heroin and crystal meth in Afghanistan. HERAT, Afghanistan — For weeks, Afghan police had been staking out a single-family house they believed was being used as a meth lab. Afghanistan's drug trade generates an estimated $35 million a month for the Taliban and drug gangs. A mysterious grassIn 2017, rumors circulated in western Afghanistan that a mysterious form of grass had been found to contain the key ingredient in crystal meth. "So long as this war continues, the drug trade will continue to grow bigger and bigger.
☆ Meet Afghanistan's fearless Gen Z influencers, who are blowing up on TikTok and have more Instagram followers than the president
  + stars: | 2021-03-05 | by ( Ali Latifi | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +14 min
A group of women in Afghanistan are breaking through as Gen Z influencers on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. More Afghans are online, and dozens of Afghan women have 50,000 or more followers on at least one social platform. A generation of Afghan women in their 20s have mastered the art of living their lives on social media. The 26-year-old posts several times a day, and she has more followers on Instagram than the country's president, Ashraf Ghani. Ayeda Shadab photographed at the ancient Citadel in Herat, Afghanistan.
☆ Official says US, Taliban reach Afghan truce agreement
  + stars: | 2020-02-14 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks to U.S. troops in an unannounced visit to Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, November 28, 2019. REUTERS/Tom BrennerA senior U.S.official said Friday the United States and the Taliban have reached a truce agreement that will take effect "very soon" and could lead to withdrawals of American troops from Afghanistan. The official said the agreement for a seven-day "reduction in violence" to be followed by the start of all-Afghan peace talks within 10 days is "very specific" and covers the entire country including Afghan forces. The final details were hammered out in recent days by U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad and Taliban representatives in Doha, Qatar. U.S. officials have brushed aside claims that a Taliban ultimatum forced their hand.
☆ I'm a photographer who covered 9/11 and its aftermath. Here are the most gripping photos I took, and the stories behind them.
  + stars: | 2001-09-11 | by ( Alan Chin | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +21 min
A month after that, I got an assignment to go to northern Afghanistan. Their soldiers had repelled a Taliban offensive in 1997, and massacred thousands of the Taliban prisoners they had captured. Air Force flights from as far away as Germany were dropping American military and humanitarian food packets in an effort to win hearts and minds. This was taken aboard the ferry connecting the east and west sides of the American military base. Even as the American war in Afghanistan ends in both ignominy and relief, the conflicts there and in dozens of other places continue.
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