Afghanistan

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Abdul Nabizada, 36, was sentenced at the High Court in Edinburgh

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British and Afghan National Army soldiers pictured in Sangin Valley, Helmand Province, Afghanistan in 2007 (Picture: Marco Di Lauro)

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Lorna Norgrove, mother of the late aid worker Linda Norgrove, greets a group of 19 women from Afghanistan at Edinburgh Airport. They came to Scotland to complete their medical degrees after women were banned from education by the Taliban (Picture: Andrew Milligan)

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Taliban fighters watch as a woman walks in a market in the Baharak district of Badakhshan province (Picture: Wakil Kohsar)

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Large numbers of Afghans fled the country when Western forces withdrew and the Taliban took over Kabul in 2021 (Picture: Master Sgt Donald Allen/US Air Forces Europe-Africa)

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The Taliban has turned Afghanistan into the worst place on Earth to be a woman (Picture: Bulent Kilic)

Taliban’s treatment of women shows need for apartheid-style boycott Susan Dalgety

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Lorna Norgrove, mother of aid worker Linda Norgrove meeting a group of 20 women from Afghanistan, who are now banned from education under the Taliban, after they arrived at Edinburgh Airport to complete their medical degrees in Scotland.

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US journalist Evan Gershkovich, arrested on espionage charges, stands inside a defendants' cage next to his lawyers after a hearing to consider an appeal on his extended pre-trial detention, at the first court of appeal in Moscow last month. A Moscow court rejected an appeal by jailed Gershkovich against the extension of his pre-trial detention until 30 June.

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James Cleverly's talk about the benefits of immigration could help change the tenor of the debate (Picture: Rob Pinney/Getty Images)

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Four British nationals who were being held in Taliban custody in Afghanistan have been released and are set to return to the UK on a flight

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Afghan residents clear debris from a damaged house after earthquake in Sarbuland village of Zendeh Jan district of Herat province (Photo by Mohsen KARIMI / AFP) (Photo by MOHSEN KARIMI/AFP via Getty Images)

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Women flee after Taliban fighters beat them and fire bullets into the air to break up a protest in Afghanistan's capital Kabul in August last year (Picture: Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images)

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NGOs have warned of a humanitarian crisis in the poverty-stricken nation.

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Ben Roberts-Smith arrives at the Federal Court in Sydney in 2021. Picture: AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File

Victoria Cross holder found by judge to have committed war crimes in Afghanistan

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The epicentre of the earthquake is believed to be in Afghanistan.

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Ice hockey fans celebrate in Helsinki, after Finland's team won the Winter Olympic Games gold medal last year (Picture: Antti Aimo-Koivisto/Lehtikuva/AFP via Getty Images)

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Home Secretary Suella Braverman presented the Illegal Migration Bill in parliament.

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Migrants picked up at sea while attempting to cross the English Channel are escorted off from a UK Border Force boat upon arrival at the Marina in Dover, southeast England, last year.

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Pakistan's former president Pervez Musharraf (left) walks down after taking the oath as a civilian president at the presidential palace in Islamabad. Picture: Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images

Pakistan’s former military ruler Pervez Musharraf dies

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Harry, Duke of Sussex, appeared on CBS late night talk show The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday evening (US time)

Harry addresses Taliban controversy on Late Show appearance in US

A poster advertising the launch of Prince Harry's memoir, Spare, on sale from today, is seen in a shop window (Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex attending the Invictus Games athletics events in the Athletics Park, at Zuiderpark the Hague, Netherlands. Picture: Aaron Chown/PA Wire

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Harry, the Duke of Sussex, with wife Meghan. Picture: PA

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The Duke of Sussex has now turned against his “other family, the military” after revealing he killed 25 people in Afghanistan, a retired British Army colonel has said.

Ex-colonel says Harry has now turned against his ‘other family, the military’

Prince Harry reveals he killed 25 Taliban while serving in Afghanistan

'We will always take the necessary steps to protect our staff and business interests,' says Menzies Aviation. Picture: contributed.

Menzies Aviation awarded multi-million-pound sum regarding Afghanistan dispute

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The Taliban have banned Afghan women from entering the capital's public parks, gyms and funfairs. (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Taliban hard-liners now add gyms to list of no-go areas for women

An aerial view of a road between Kharkiv and Izyum is impassable after a bridge was destroyed during fighting between Ukrainian and occupying-Russian forces, on October 08, 2022 in Izyum, Ukraine. Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images

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