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Two reportedly killed as women take part in rare protest in Afghanistan

killed as women take part in rare protest in Afghanistan Taliban police used live fire

Two killed in rare street demonstration over women’s rights in Afghanistan

killed in rare street demonstration over women’s rights in Afghanistan A Taliban crackdown on women’s dress code in [Afghanistan](https://www.theguardian.com/world/afghanistan) has escalated into a rare mass street protest

Train bomb in Pakistan’s Baloch region: Why violence is on the rise

protests over Beijing-backed infrastructural projects in Balochistan. As part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor project – one of the main arms of China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” designed to improve trading routes – China

‘Predators’: Amnesty slams Netanyahu, Putin, Trump as human rights decline

Afghanistan’s Taliban was responsible for further gender-based discrimination in 2025, the report noted, citing measures excluding women from education and work, while Nepalese authorities were said to have failed to investigate instances

The foreign fighters who helped topple Assad — and why China worries about them

women grab a riot police officer as they protest in Xinjiang's capital, Urumqi, on July 7, 2009. **Peter Parks/AFP via Getty Images** Peter Parks/AFP via Getty Images The Chinese government estimates that the riots

I’ve covered Trump for a decade. At the White House correspondents’ dinner, darkness came viscerally close

women in dresses – diving under the circular tables and, almost as if acting on a cue, did likewise. It was a scene from a dozen Hollywood movies but now it was happening to me, right