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Residents of Pakistani Kashmir say they fled into hills during Indian strikes Residents of Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, said they fled their homes and ran into surrounding hills as India launched airstrikes early on Wednesday in a part of the city.

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Exclusive: Airlines face overflight payment risks as planes divert over Afghanistan Airlines are turning to a network of third parties to pay fees to Afghan authorities as more planes use the country's airspace, increasing the risk of legal disputes and money laundering, according to pilots, aviation executives and lawyers.

Airlines are turning to a network of third parties to pay fees to Afghan authorities as more planes use the country's airspace, increasing the risk of legal disputes and money laundering, according to pilots, aviation executives and lawyers:
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"Just bread and tea": WFP says aid cuts to Afghanistan leave millions hungry this winter The head of the World Food Programme in Afghanistan says the agency can only feed half the millions of Afghans in need after cuts in international aid and an impending freeze in U.S. foreign funding.

As Trump's administration imposes foreign funding freeze, WFP says aid cuts to Afghanistan are leaving millions hungry this winter, surviving on bread and tea once or twice a day

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Afghan Taliban foreign ministry condemns ICC arrest warrants for leaders Afghanistan's Taliban foreign ministry said on Friday it "strongly condemns" and rejects the International Criminal Court's request for arrest warrants for two Taliban leaders.

The Taliban condemend the ICC prosecutor's decision to seek arrest warrants for two of its leaders for alleged gender persecution crimes while Amnesty International welcomed the development

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Taliban say India is a "significant regional partner" after meeting The Taliban's foreign office said they saw India as a "significant regional and economic partner" after meeting with its most senior foreign ministry official, the highest level talks with Delhi since their takeover of Afghanistan in 2021.

The Taliban's foreign office said they saw India as a ‘significant regional and economic partner’ after meeting with its most senior foreign ministry official, the highest level talks with Delhi since their takeover of Afghanistan in 2021 reut.rs/40ngPKK

In aid-starved Afghanistan, relief workers fight forgotten food crisis Humanitarian aid to the country is falling. One reason, diplomats say: The Taliban’s treatment of women. Non-profit groups are scrambling to feed the hungry.

“This little one, his father was killed, he’s the oldest in the family. I asked him, ‘Do you go to school, son?’ and he replied, ‘No, I don’t go to school because if I do, who will provide bread for us at home?’”

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“Imagine Afghanistan as a body with no part unscathed, a body completely covered in wounds. We can only bandage some parts of it ," Abdul Qadir Salehi, a volunteer social worker told us.

Among children, malnutrition is on the rise. An estimated 2.9 million Afghan children will suffer acute malnutrition in 2024. Another 570,000 children are expected to become malnourished next year, according to WFP.

Sanctions affecting the banking sector, the slashing of development aid to the Taliban - which no foreign capital officially recognises - and climate shocks like droughts and floods have excacerbated the situation.

Already torn apart by decades of war and corruption, ordinary Afghans are now caught in the crosshairs as donor governments, stretched by competing crises, reduce support for Afghanistan in part due to Taliban restrictions on women.

In October, Reuters' multimedia team with
@saitomri.bsky.social spent weeks in Afghanistan's western Herat, documenting the crisis from the point of view of the Afghan men and women trying to help from the ground - often while facing huge challenges of their own.

In aid-starved Afghanistan, relief workers fight forgotten food crisis Humanitarian aid to the country is falling. One reason, diplomats say: The Taliban’s treatment of women. Non-profit groups are scrambling to feed the hungry.

With wars and climate-related crises raging around the world, it has been hard for us to capture in daily coverage the depth of slow-burning economic desperation gripping Afghanistan since foreign forces left in 2021. Until this story: www.reuters.com/investigates...

Our story is about these aid workers who are navigating extraordinary challenges in a country that has been beset by war and bloodshed for decades to serve their country and community. Here's something one charity worker said to me in Herat that stayed with me.

Meanwhile, the many restrictions and policies imposed by the Taliban make it challenging for nonprofits to operate in the country. Despite all this, there are Afghan doctors, nurses, volunteers and other aid workers doing all that they can to save lives and keep desperate families afloat.

In aid-starved Afghanistan, relief workers fight forgotten food crisis Humanitarian aid to the country is falling. One reason, diplomats say: The Taliban’s treatment of women. Non-profit groups are scrambling to feed the hungry.

As of this month -- the last month of the year obviously -- only 45% of the humanitarian plan drawn up for 2024 had been funded, leaving a $1.7 billion shortfall. www.reuters.com/investigates...

Three years after the chaotic U.S. pullout, not a single foreign state recognizes the Taliban administration, and Afghanistan remains shut out of development aid. It's estimated that 14.2 million people are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity -- more than a third of the population

In October, I spent a few weeks in Afghanistan's western Herat province, speaking with the aid workers and volunteers trying to distribute food aid to desperate families and treat women and children suffering acute malnutrition.

With Afghanistan’s economy reeling and millions of people going hungry, nonprofit groups like Aseel are trying to fill a growing humanitarian void, providing aid to destitute families reut.rs/4imupFj 1/5