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Travis Head.

Head gives up T20 gigs for Australia duty; Refugee cricketers send a message to the Taliban

Travis Head has agreed to give up Twenty20 franchise opportunities outside the Big Bash League and the IPL, while the Afghanistan women cricketers who take the field in Melbourne this week know their game is about more than runs and wickets.

  • Jon Pierik and Daniel Brettig

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An Afghan cricket player bowls  during a neighborhood cricket game June 15, 2011 in Kabul.

Cricket’s horror in indulging Afghanistan under Taliban must be stopped

Afghanistan must be banned from international cricket while the terror against women in the country continues.

  • Oliver Brown
A woman walks past a mural calling for women and children’s rights in Bamian, Afghanistan.

Women banned from raising their voices, looking at other men in Taliban crackdown

Religious police are roaming bus stops and shopping centres searching for dress code violations or any women who might laugh or raise their voices.

  • Rick Noack
Manizha Talash, representing the refugee team, reveals her message  at the Paris Olympics.

She was one of the first to break at a Games. She seized the moment

She fled Afghanistan after the Taliban abducted her father. Now in Paris, Talash has found her voice on the world’s biggest stage.

  • Jordan Baker
Nuclear rabbit

Dutton’s climate politics put our children’s future at risk

What appears forgotten in this latest version of Australia’s climate wars is the reason why our planet cannot be allowed to pass 1.5 degrees of warming. At 1.5 degrees we trigger a domino event where a warming planet reinforces further warming that is irreversible.

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Banned by the Taliban, this festival draws thousands of Afghans in Melbourne

Afghan Australians celebrated both Nowruz, or New Year, and the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr in Dandenong on Sunday.

  • Carolyn Webb
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Australian troops on the way to take up a front-line position in the ruins of Ypres.

In war, the horror is the only thing you can believe

Truth has been a stranger to wars of the past, and remains alien to current wars.

  • Tony Wright
China’s President Xi Jinping.

What China’s blossoming relationship with the Taliban says about its long-game

Through an alliance with Iran and burgeoning ties with Afghanistan, Beijing is looking past the Indo-Pacific and toward another region.

  • Amin Saikal
Pakistan bombing scene

Pakistan shuts phone network on election day after bombings kill dozens

The move comes less than 24 hours after two bomb blasts targeted the offices of different political leaders in north-west Balochistan province.

  • Ismail Dilawar, Betsy Joles and Kamran Haider
A Taliban fighter stands guard as women wait to receive food rations, in Kabul, Afghanistan, last year.

Teenage girls ‘detained and lashed’ by Taliban amid hijab crackdown

Girls as young as 16 have been seized from markets, private classrooms and the streets of Kabul as well as other provinces, accused of violating strict dress rules.

  • Ruchi Kumar

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