Month: September 2021

On the day the Taliban took control of Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, advertising posters outside beauty parlours showing women in bridalwear were painted over. Salons around the city were closed down too. While some businesses have vowed to return to full service soon, others fear for their futures. Afsoon (not her […]

Workers in China are fed up with the brutal 12-hour work days once seen as a key driver of success. Source link

Inger Stoejberg is accused of unlawfully ordering the separation of young asylum-seeking couples. Source link

A Taliban fighter walks past a beauty salon with defaced images of women in Kabul Asel and many of her international team-mates are in hiding. Asel isn’t her real name. In Kabul members of the Taliban have already come looking for Afghanistan’s women’s cricket team. “Every woman playing cricket or […]

A US judge has approved a bankruptcy plan for the maker of OxyContin painkillers. Source link

General Mark Milley says it “remains to be seen” whether the Islamist group will change. Source link

Certainly, as Parliament returns next week, questions for Mr Raab on key issues like how many people are left behind, how the government plans to get them out, and why ministers were taken by surprise by the speed of the Taliban’s takeover will not go away until concrete answers are […]

Canada’s leader called a snap election, but midway through the campaign his party is struggling. Source link

This isn’t the first time the country has rejected vaccines. In July, it rejected shipments of around two million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, citing concerns over potential side effects, a South-Korean think-tank associated with the country’s intelligence service said. Source link