Cricket’s horror in indulging Afghanistan under Taliban must be stopped

Cricket’s horror in indulging Afghanistan under Taliban must be stopped

Afghanistan must be banned from international cricket while the terror against women in the country continues.

  • byOliver Brown

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Women banned from raising their voices,looking at other men in Taliban crackdown

Women banned from raising their voices,looking at other men in Taliban crackdown

Religious police are roaming bus stops and shopping centres searching for dress code violations or any women who might laugh or raise their voices.

  • byRick Noack
She was one of the first to break at a Games. She seized the moment

She was one of the first to break at a Games. She seized the moment

She fled Afghanistan after the Taliban abducted her father. Now in Paris,Talash has found her voice on the world’s biggest stage.

  • byJordan Baker
Payman’s short-lived rebellion ends in a whimper – for now
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Fatima Payman

Payman’s short-lived rebellion ends in a whimper – for now

Mystery still surrounds why Senator Fatima Payman mounted her one-woman rebellion.

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Dutton’s climate politics put our children’s future at risk

Dutton’s climate politics put our children’s future at risk

What appears forgotten in this latest version of Australia’s climate wars is the reason why our planet cannot be allowed to pass 1.5 degrees of warming. At 1.5 degrees we trigger a domino event where a warming planet reinforces further warming that is irreversible.

Banned by the Taliban,this festival draws thousands of Afghans in Melbourne

Banned by the Taliban,this festival draws thousands of Afghans in Melbourne

Afghan Australians celebrated both Nowruz,or New Year,and the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr in Dandenong on Sunday.

  • byCarolyn Webb
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In war,the horror is the only thing you can believe
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World War I

In war,the horror is the only thing you can believe

Truth has been a stranger to wars of the past,and remains alien to current wars.

  • byTony Wright
What China’s blossoming relationship with the Taliban says about its long-game

What China’s blossoming relationship with the Taliban says about its long-game

Through an alliance with Iran and burgeoning ties with Afghanistan,Beijing is looking past the Indo-Pacific and toward another region.

  • byAmin Saikal
Pakistan shuts phone network on election day after bombings kill dozens

Pakistan shuts phone network on election day after bombings kill dozens

The move comes less than 24 hours after two bomb blasts targeted the offices of different political leaders in north-west Balochistan province.

  • byIsmail Dilawar,Betsy Joles andKamran Haider
Teenage girls ‘detained and lashed’ by Taliban amid hijab crackdown

Teenage girls ‘detained and lashed’ by Taliban amid hijab crackdown

Girls as young as 16 have been seized from markets,private classrooms and the streets of Kabul as well as other provinces,accused of violating strict dress rules.

  • byRuchi Kumar
Payne reveals Biden’s move that devastates her daily in rare public appearance

Payne reveals Biden’s move that devastates her daily in rare public appearance

The former foreign and defence minister said not a day passed when she did not think about the plight of women in Afghanistan.

  • byLatika Bourke