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Peace talks at snail’s pace due to Taliban: Afghan govt
Agence France-Presse . Kabul | Updated at 11:46pm on January 20, 2021
Afghan authorities lambasted the Taliban Wednesday for failing to actively participate in peace talks seeking to end the country’s long-running war. Following months of deliberations...
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Two female judges of Afghanistan supreme court shot to death
Agence France-Presse . Kabul | Updated at 12:00pm on January 17, 2021
Gunmen killed two Afghan women judges working for the Supreme Court during an early morning ambush in Kabul on Sunday, officials said, as a wave...
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Afghanistan traffic authorities retire licence plates with ‘39’
Agence France-Presse . Kabul, Afghanistan | Updated at 04:32pm on January 14, 2021
Afghan traffic authorities are retiring licence plates containing the number "39" because the figure has long been associated with pimping and prostitution...
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Bomb kills 3 in Kabul
Agence France-Presse . Kabul | Updated at 10:24pm on January 10, 2021
An Afghan journalist-turned spokesman for the country’s public protection force was killed along with two colleagues Sunday by a bomb targeting their vehicle, officials said....
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Gunmen kill Afghan radio journalist in car ambush
Agence France-Presse . Kabul | Updated at 09:11pm on January 01, 2021
An Afghan radio journalist was shot dead on Friday in a car ambush in the central province of Ghor, officials said, the fifth media worker...
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Two Afghan cops killed in Kabul explosions
Agence France-Presse . Kabul | Updated at 03:09pm on December 26, 2020
Two Afghan policemen were killed as three ‘sticky bombs’ exploded in Kabul on Saturday, the latest violence to hit the Afghan capital...
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Afghan women’s rights activist shot dead
Agence France-Presse . Kabul | Updated at 10:37am on December 25, 2020
Gunmen on a motorbike shot dead a women’s rights activist and her brother north of Afghanistan’s capital on Thursday, officials said, as a wave of...
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Afghan reporter shot dead
Agence France-Presse . Kabul | Updated at 09:51pm on December 22, 2020
Gunmen murdered an Afghan journalist in the eastern city of Ghazni on Monday, the third reporter to be killed in the last two months in...
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Doctors among five killed in Kabul bombing
Agence France-Presse . Kabul | Updated at 09:49pm on December 22, 2020
Four doctors who worked at an Afghan prison with hundreds of Taliban inmates were among five people killed Tuesday by a bomb attached to their...
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Car bomb targeting Afghan MP kills 9
Agence France-Presse . Kabul | Updated at 02:09pm on December 20, 2020
A car bomb targeting an Afghan lawmaker killed nine people and wounded more than a dozen in Kabul on Sunday, officials said, the latest attack...