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Taliban postpones return to school for Afghan girls above 6th grade

Taliban postpones return to school for Afghan girls above 6th grade

(CNN)The Taliban prevented girls above the 6th grade in Afghanistan from making their much-anticipated return to school on Wednesday. Just hours after schools for…
Taliban postpones return to school for Afghan girls above 6th grade

Taliban postpones return to school for Afghan girls above 6th grade

(CNN) – The Taliban prevented girls above the 6th grade in Afghanistan from making their much-anticipated return to school on…
How dual nationals became pawns in Iran’s fight with the West

How dual nationals became pawns in Iran’s fight with the West

Abu Dhabi, UAE (CNN) – Just days after her release from detention in Iran, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe took to the microphones…
Iran’s strike on Iraq puts US in awkward position amid nuclear talks

Iran’s strike on Iraq puts US in awkward position amid nuclear talks

Abu Dhabi, UAE (CNN) – The United States appears to be keen to tell the world that it wasn’t the…
Syrians are watching in horror as Putin deploys the Aleppo playbook in Ukraine

Syrians are watching in horror as Putin deploys the Aleppo playbook in Ukraine

Istanbul (CNN) – Abdel Kafi al-Hamdo cannot get Ukraine out of his mind. The 36-year-old Syrian spends his days following…
Turkey opens record-breaking bridge between Europe and Asia

Turkey opens record-breaking bridge between Europe and Asia

Istanbul (Reuters) — President Tayyip Erdogan opened a massive suspension bridge across Turkey’s Dardanelles Strait on Friday, the latest in…
Saudi Arabia executes 81 men in one day, the biggest mass execution in decades

Saudi Arabia executes 81 men in one day, the biggest mass execution in decades

(Reuters)Saudi Arabia executed 81 men on Saturday, including seven Yemenis and one Syrian, for terrorism and other offenses including holding “deviant…
Missiles hit Kurdish capital in Iraq, no casualties, officials say

Missiles hit Kurdish capital in Iraq, no casualties, officials say

(CNN)A dozen ballistic missiles struck Iraq’s northern Kurdish regional capital Erbil early Sunday morning, local officials said. The missiles were…
How the Ukraine war revealed Europe’s selective empathy on refugees

How the Ukraine war revealed Europe’s selective empathy on refugees

Abu Dhabi, UAE (CNN)The West has shown unprecedented coordination and unity in its response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Governments,…
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