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The Taliban has announced a new interim cabinet comprised of all men and officially declared the country an Islamic Emirate after taking control of Afghanistan earlier last month.
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Most of the members of the all-girls Afghan robotics team have safely fled the country after the Taliban took control.
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Four student leaders from University of Hong Kong were arrested on Wednesday Aug. 18 for “advocating terrorism” after they mourned a man who attacked the police and subsequently took his own life.
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Afghan taekwondo athlete Zakia Khudadadi was set to become the country’s first-ever woman competitor in the Paralympic Games in Tokyo when the Taliban took over.
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In its first press conference since taking control of Afghanistan, the Taliban has said it will not be seeking revenge against anyone who had opposed them and that women will be “afforded” their rights “within the limits of Islam.”
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A photo showing 640 Afghans packed into a US military aircraft evacuating from Kabul has become one of the defining images of Afghanistan’s collapse, after the Taliban regained control of the country on Sunday Aug. 15.
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Video of people in Afghanistan trying to flee the country by clinging to a departing US Air Force plane has gone viral.
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has shared her concern for the Afghanistan’s girls and women after the Taliban took control of the country on Sunday Aug. 15.
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Taliban fighters have entered Afghanistan’s presidential palace in Kabul and declared that the country is under their control.
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Vitaly Shishov, a Belarusian opposition activist, has been found dead in a park near his home in Kiev, Ukraine, where he had been living in exile.
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Belarusian Olympic sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya has been granted asylum in Poland after she was taken to an airport against her will by team officials to board a flight back home for complaining about the country’s coaches in an Instagram video.
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Hong Kong police have arrested five members of a speech therapist union for publishing a children’s book about wolves and sheep that authorities say “incites hatred of the government in children.”