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NHK News: Armed Taliban fighters have forcibly dispersed a group of women who were demanding that girls in Afghanistan be allowed to return to secondary school. The protest took place on Thursday in the capital Kabul. About 10 Taliban fighters rushed to the scene and threatened the women to leave, including by firing shots into the air.

TUNIS, Sept 12 — A Tunisian man suffered died in hospital yesterday after setting himself on fire, witnesses and medics said, days after another burned himself alive to protest living conditions. Both acts recall the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi, the street seller whose suicide by fire on...

The Indian Express: The Pentagon said on Friday that a deadly attack at the gate to Kabul airport in Afghanistan yesterday was carried out by one suicide bomber, not two. “I can confirm for you that we do not believe that there was a second explosion at or near the Baron Hotel, that it was one suicide bomber,” Army Major General William Taylor was quoted as saying by Reuters.

New Delhi [India], August 26 (ANI): Activist Yogita Bhayana has written a letter to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana requesting appropriate and expeditious steps to establish justice on the recent horrific incident in which a man and woman allegedly self-immolated outside the Supreme Court and later died in Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) hospital.

सुप्रीम कोर्ट के बाहर बीते दिनों कथित तौर पर एक महिला के साथ आत्महत्या की कोशिश करने वाले 27 वर्षीय Man who attempted self-immolation outside Supreme Court dies in Delhi RML hospital - Hindustan

Counter Punch: One of the doctrinal principles behind U.S. corporate-imperial news coverage and commentary and mainstream US politics is that the United States is a fundamentally benevolent force for good facing difficulties created by evil others and challenging situations not of Washington’s own making. Debate is permissible on immediate strategy and tactics but is not allowed on these core American Exceptionalist positions.

Counter Punch: As Taliban fighters enter Kabul, everybody from the US government to local policemen seeks to reach a deal with the new rulers of Afghanistan. Alternatively, they want to flee the country as soon as possible.

Nasdaq: KABUL, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Suspected Taliban fighters killed an Afghan radio station manager in Kabul and kidnapped a journalist in southern Helmand province, local government officials said on Monday, reporting the latest in a long line of attacks targeting media workers.

Medya News: These past few days, we have witnessed on our television screens and social media, images of the Taliban having swept through Afghanistan and on the 15th August, walked into the capital of Afghanistan, Kabul and straight into the Presidential Palace without any resistance after the withdrawal of the US forces just a few weeks before.

राष्ट्रीय महिला आयोग (NCW) ने सोमवार को सुप्रीम कोर्ट के सामने एक महिला और पुरुष द्वारा खुद को आग Provide details of security given to woman who set herself ablaze outside SC: NCW to UP police - Hindustan