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Contested by the top teams from across Europe, the Champions League is the continent’s most prestigious professional water polo club competition.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has expressed concern over the treatment of Afghan women activists currently held in Taliban detention.

In recent weeks, the Taliban has launched a crackdown on Afghan women and girls accused of violating the extremist group's strict dress code. Some of the women and their relatives have told RFE/RL's Radio Azadi that they were humiliated and tortured in Taliban detention.

UNICEF, the UN's aid and relief organization for children, has called for greater support for the nearly 100,000 children affected by the October earthquakes in the western Afghan province of Herat.

Mother Teresa, one of the world's most beloved humanitarians, was born in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia.

Two people were killed and 12 wounded in an explosion in western Kabul on January 11, a police spokesman said.

The UN Assistance Mission to Afghanistan has expressed deep concern over what it says are recent arbitrary detentions and arrests of Afghan women and girls because of alleged violations of the Islamic dress code.

Singer Mehdi Yarrahi has been sentenced to two years and eight months in prison and 74 lashes for a song he released critical of Iran's law requiring women to cover their heads.

Since Kurdish-Iranian woman Roya Heshmati was lashed 74 times for an alleged hijab violation, her case has led to widespread condemnation in Iran and abroad and left her defending herself against attempts to smear her name.  

An Iranian-German citizen imprisoned in Tehran's notorious Evin prison has been released on a furlough, though she has to wear an electronic ankle bracelet that her daughter said makes the situation more like house arrest.