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One year after the fall of Kabul, the people face both intensifying repression and mass hungerOn Monday it will be a year since the Taliban seized Kabul, marking “not the collapse of a regime, but the collapse of the dreams of a nation”, in the words o…
Read MoreThough capital punishment is in global decline, there are horrifying exceptions to the general trendNext month, Oklahoma will embark on a grim schedule: an execution nearly every month until the end of 2024. In September, it is due to execute Richard G…
Read MoreMass protests forced the president to announce he will resign. But the years of his family’s corruption and incompetence have taken their tollFor years, long before his election to Sri Lanka’s presidency, Gotabaya Rajapaksa inspired fear. His own famil…
Read MoreThe world’s poorest people ought to be helped to cope with a climate emergency they did little to causeWhat is troubling about the heatwave affecting the 1.8 billion people on the Indian subcontinent is not just that it is so hot, but that the record-b…
Read MoreA damning report by the Commons foreign affairs committee exposes the full scale of failure by ministers and officialsThe excoriating parliamentary report on Britain’s handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan is such a lengthy catalogue of failure t…
Read MoreThe regime intensifies repression and suffering while failing to address the country’s urgent humanitarian needsTwo decades ago, photographs of blue burqas became perhaps the totemic image of life under the Taliban, as Afghan women’s rights were invoke…
Read MoreIt may be a conceit to think that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will shape the contours of a coming wider global struggle between autocracy and democracyFlying from Islamabad to Colombo gives a bird’s-eye view of the fallout from war over the subcontine…
Read MoreThe Russian president may look isolated over Ukraine, but important players are hedging their betsWhen Vladimir Putin recognised Donetsk and Luhansk as independent republics, days before his invasion of Ukraine, one of the most powerful denunciations c…
Read MoreGirls’ hopes of education have been crushed again. People are fighting for basic rights and freedoms – but also for the means to surviveWhen 98% of the population is short of food, all that is left is hope. In Afghanistan there is not much of that eith…
Read MoreBritain needs to show that it cares about the lives of starving humans, not just animalsSoon after the Taliban swept into Kabul, with Afghanistan’s economy collapsing, people began to sell meagre possessions, from mattresses to cooking pots, to buy bas…
Read MoreYears of rage lie behind the days of protest. Bringing in foreign troops can’t resolve an uprising with deep rootsAs grim as the crisis in Kazakhstan already appears, it could soon look much worse. Authorities reported on Thursday that dozens of protes…
Read MoreA whistleblower has exposed the extent to which Afghans’ trust in British promises of protection was betrayed in the summerIn August, with Kabul on the brink of falling to the Taliban, the then foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, was advised to call his A…
Read MoreThe generals snatched power and seized elected politicians. But they have yet to cow the publicThe prosecution and inevitable conviction of Myanmar’s deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi and Win Myint, its former president, are a show of strength by the mil…
Read MoreAs its economy implodes and the food crisis grows, its people feel betrayed. No wonderThe global attention has dissipated, but the crisis is intensifying. The bleak year that Afghans have endured is turning to a still bleaker winter. The UN World Food …
Read MoreThe Taliban are showing their true colours. The people face a desperate struggle for basic rights – and for survivalEven as the Taliban swept into Kabul in August – and even given their record in other parts of Afghanistan – some clung to hope, suggest…
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