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Taliban claim they have captured 2nd largest Afghan city of Kandahar

U.S. launches airstrike on key Afghan city of Kunduz after its fall to the Taliban

The U.S. launched an airstrike on the Afghan key city of Kunduz after its fall to the Taliban on Monday, the Washington Post reported.

Taliban on Afghan streets of Kunduz, amid reports it seizes much of northern city centre

French Prime Minister meets with France 2nd largest farmers union Rural Coordination

After meeting with the largest farmers union FNSEA, French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal met with Rural Coordination, France's 2nd largest farming union. Its president, Veronique Le Floch, said it was "catastrophic" that the Prime Minister had not yet made any emergency announcements, while farmers continued to express their anger throughout France, in a protest that was mourned by the death of a farmer in Ariège, hit by a car at a roadblock. IMAGES

Afghan Taliban 'made girlhood illegal' Malala tells Mandela lecture

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai says that Taliban rule in Afghanistan has made "girlhood illegal", in her keynote speech at an event held by the Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg to commemorate the anti-apartheid icon. “The Taliban have made girlhood illegal and it is taking a toll,” she says. IMAGES