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-New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern stayed in self-isolation on Sunday, as the country recorded 103 new COVID-19 infections and its tough border controls were highlighted by a pregnant...
'When the Taliban offers you - a pregnant, unmarried woman - safe haven, you know your situation is messed up'
A pregnant New Zealand journalist denied re-entry to her home country to give birth due to strict COVID-19 regulations yesterday said that she has been offered refuge by the Taliban. “This just feels like such a breach of trust,” Charlotte Bellis told Radio New Zealand from Kabul. In a column published in the New Zealand Herald on Saturday, Bellis said it was “brutally ironic” that she had once questioned the Taliban about its treatment of women, but was now asking the same questions of her own government. “When the Taliban offers you — a pregnant, unmarried woman — safe haven, y...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- A pregnant New Zealand journalist says she turned to the Taliban for help and is now stranded in Afghanistan after her home country has prevented her from returning due to a bottleneck of people in its coronavirus quarantine system.
A pregnant New Zealand journalist who covered the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban is speaking out about how the Islamist group, which is widely criticized for its treatment of women, offered her a helping hand when she needed a place to stay after her home country rejected her entry.