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CNN  —  Alabama’s Republican attorney general said this week that women in the state who use…

Australia pulls out of Afghanistan cricket series over Taliban’s restrictions on women | CNN

Sydney CNN  —  Australia’s men’s cricket team has withdrawn from a series of upcoming matches against…

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Three foreign aid groups suspend work in Afghanistan after Taliban bars female employees | CNN

CNN  —  Three foreign aid groups said Sunday that they were moving to temporarily suspend their…

Taliban use water cannon on women protesting education order in Afghanistan | CNN

CNN  —  A group of women took to the streets in the city of Herat in…

Taliban orders NGOs to ban female employees from coming to work | CNN

CNN  —  The Taliban administration in Afghanistan has ordered all local and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs)…

The Taliban pledged to honor women’s rights in Afghanistan. Here’s how it eroded them instead | CNN

CNN  —  When the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in August 2021 in a lightning…

‘What was their sacrifice for?’: Devastation for female Afghan students stripped of education | CNN

Kabul, Afghanistan CNN  —  The 21-year-old student had been studying hard for weeks as she prepared…

First on CNN: Commerce Department launches grant program to help female and minority entrepreneurs | CNN Politics

CNN  —  The Commerce Department is launching a nearly $100 million grant program to help tens…

How the Arab world’s most populous country became addicted to debt | CNN Business

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