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The Biggest Party in Sport bowls off – Can TKR end search for fifth CPL title?
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
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August 16, 2025
Sports Jelani Beckles 6 Hrs Ago Trinbago Knight Riders' Nicholas Pooran plays a shot during the 2024 Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League. - Photo courtesy CPL T20 IT is that time of year again for the Biggest Party in Sport – the Republic Bank...
Farhad Darya Releases ‘Tired Land’ Marking Four Years of Silence in Afghanistan
Khaama Press
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August 16, 2025
Farhad Darya released his new song “Tired Land” to mark four years of silence in Afghanistan, portraying the nation’s grief, wounds, resilience, and unspoken struggles. Afghanistan’s music icon Farhad Darya has marked the fourth anniversary of...
6 Afghan Bodybuilders To Compete In Asian C'ship Thailand
MENAFN
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August 16, 2025
(MENAFN- Pajhwok Afghan News) KABUL (Pajhwok): The Afghanistan Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation (ABFF) has announced that six members of the national team will participate in the Asian Bodybuilding and Fitness Championships in Thailand. In a...
Afghanistan: Ten ways the Taliban is vanishing women from public life
The Interpreter
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August 15, 2025
Editor’s note: This reproduces a press release issued by UN Women Australia on the fourth anniversary of the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan following the US-withdrawal. Four years after the Taliban took over Afghanistan in August 2021, dozens of...
Afghan athlete Rezaei wins taekwondo bout in Kazakhstan
Pajhwok Afghan News
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August 14, 2025
KABUL (Pajhwok): Afghan national taekwondo player Mohsin Rezaei has defeated his Kazakh opponent in the World Taekwondo Open Championships, advancing to the next round. The Afghanistan National Taekwondo Federation said on its Facebook page on...
Kabul's Quiet Resistance: Young Afghans Navigate Life Under The Taliban
Radio Free Europe - Radio Liberty
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August 14, 2025
Just before the Afghan capital fell to the Taliban in August 2021, RFE/RL spoke with several young professionals in Kabul who voiced their fears and anxieties about the future. We reconnected with them again this week to see how their lives have...
Afghan Migrant Charged With Raping Swedish Teen Postal Worker at Knifepoint
American Renaissance
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August 14, 2025
An Afghan migrant who told police he was “so horny” and “just wanted to have sex” has been charged with the aggravated rape of an 18-year-old woman delivering post in Västerås. Mohsen Asghari, 26, who arrived in Sweden in 2012 as an unaccompanied...
Jharrel Jerome, Teo Yoo Join Golden Globes-Artemis Rising Docu Jury at Venice
Golden Globes Awards
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August 18, 2025
Actor-musician Jharrel Jerome (Moonlight, When They See Us) and actor Teo Yoo (Past Lives, The Recruit) have joined the jury for the Golden Globes Impact Prize for Documentary, presented by Artemis Rising Foundation during the 82nd Venice...
Afghan Taliban will shower Kabul with flowers from helicopters for their takeover anniversary
Dunya News
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KABUL (AP) – The Taliban will shower Kabul with flowers from helicopters to mark the fourth anniversary of their return to power in Afghanistan, an official said Thursday. The Taliban seized control of the country on Aug. 15, 2021, weeks before...
Women barred from Taliban takeover anniversary celebrations in Kabul
1News
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Afghan women were barred from attending celebrations marking the fourth anniversary of the Taliban’s return to power. Some 10,000 men gathered across the capital, Kabul, to watch Defence Ministry helicopters scatter flowers to the crowds below....
Afghanistan’s women’s football team are fighting to play
Huck Magazine
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Recognition for the team is about more than just playing football. “It’s not only about us representing Afghanistan, to wear the jersey, to have the same freedom we had – it’s beyond that,” says Yousufi. “It’s about all those girls – young, old,...
Afghanistan: Are the Taliban still isolated after 4 years?
Deutsche Welle
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August 14, 2025
In August 2021, the government in Kabul collapsed and gave way to the Taliban in wake of the US pulling its forces out of Afghanistan. Four year later, the Taliban seem to have a firm grip on power. So firm, in fact, that some governments,...
Marked for death
The News International
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August 19, 2025
In one night, Israel murdered Al Jazeera’s entire media crew in Gaza City. The Israeli military admitted to assassinating the journalists in an August 10 airstrike on a media tent outside Al-Shifa hospital. The strike killed Al Jazeera Arabic...
Taliban leader issues warning against 'ungrateful' Afghans on takeover anniversary
Euronews
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August 15, 2025
By Euronews Published on 15/08/2025 - 13:41 GMT+2 Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada warned Friday that God would severely punish Afghans who are ungrateful for Islamic rule, marking the fourth anniversary of the group's return to power with...
Bob Rae masters the art of reinvention Five years into his term as Canada’s UN Ambassador, Bob Rae says it’s been an incredibly busy time fraught with crises, but that it’s also been a wonderful opportunity.
Mid North Monitor
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Breadcrumb Trail Links Life Five years into his term as Canada’s UN Ambassador, Bob Rae says it’s been an incredibly busy time fraught with crises, but that it’s also been a wonderful opportunity. Advertisement 2 This advertisement has not loaded...
Four years on from the Taliban takeover, Afghan women are asserting themselves through art
The Art Newspaper
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August 15, 2025
Art has always been a lifeline for Afghan women like Alina Gawhary. Born in Kabul in 2004, she came to taste a life that has since been outlawed. “Painting was my childhood passion”, Gawhary says. “I wanted to show that girls could do everything.”...
“Art of Photojournalism”
Valencia County News Bulletin - New Mexico
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LOS LUNAS — Ku Klux Klan rallies. Apartheid. Collin Powell. Rev. Jessie Jackson. Mikhail Gorbachev. The surrender of an Iraqi family during fighting in 2006. A kitten swimming for safety from the flood waters of Hurricane Katrina. In journalism,...
Hackers capture personal data of former Tory ministers, British troops and thousands of Afghans allies in latest Ministry of Defence blunder
Daily Mail
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August 15, 2025
Personal data of former Tory ministers, British troops and thousands of Afghans has been lost in another embarrassing blunder for the Ministry of Defence. Defence officials sent a warning on Friday to 3,700 affected individuals warning their...
I walked streets of Washington and saw scenes straight from disaster movie after terrifying breakdown in law and order
The Scottish Sun
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August 15, 2025
THE armoured vehicles were stationed in position, troops in combat fatigues buzzed around and temperatures headed towards 33C. But this wasn’t a scene from Iraq or Afghanistan. We were standing in Washington DC, the birthplace of American...
Afghanistan faces rising risk of women’s complete exclusion from public life, UN warns
Daryo
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August 14, 2025
Four years after Taliban forces seized Kabul, Afghan women are facing near-total removal from public life, according to new warnings from UN Women and the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). Source: UNICEF In 2021, Afghan women could...