The Taliban
- Cricket Briefing
- Australian cricket
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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- Opinion
- Gender equality
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
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
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
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.
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
- Perspective
- World War I
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
- Opinion
- China relations
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
- Updated
- World elections
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
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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