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Error 404: 48 hours of confusion in Afghanistan during internet blackout
AFP, Published on 03/10/2025
» KABUL — Paralysed banks, grounded planes and chaotic hospitals: for two days, life ground to a halt in Afghanistan after the Taliban unexpectedly cut off the internet and phone networks.
Malala Yousafzai tells Muslim leaders not to 'legitimise' Taliban
AFP, Published on 12/01/2025
» ISLAMABAD - Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai urged Muslim leaders on Sunday not to "legitimise" the Afghan Taliban government and to "show true leadership" by opposing their curbs on women and girls' education.
Malala Yousafzai 'overwhelmed and happy' to be back in Pakistan
AFP, Published on 11/01/2025
» ISLAMABAD — Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai said she was "overwhelmed" to be back in her native Pakistan Saturday, as she arrived for a global summit on girls' education in the Islamic world.
'Education apartheid': schooling in crisis in Pakistan
AFP, Published on 11/01/2025
» ABDULLAH GOTH — Aneesa Haroon drops off her tattered school bag at her rural home in Pakistan and hurriedly grabs lunch before joining her father in the fields to pick vegetables.
Hillary Clinton joins call for UN to criminalize gender apartheid
AFP, Published on 06/10/2023
» WASHINGTON - A group of high-profile activists including Hillary Clinton, Malala Yousafzai and Gloria Steinem have signed a call for the United Nations to criminalize gender apartheid, according to a letter sent to member states Thursday.
Seven killed, 44 wounded in blasts inside Pakistan police station
AFP, Published on 25/04/2023
» PESHAWAR (PAKISTAN) - At least seven people were killed and dozens injured in an attack inside a counter-terrorism police station in Pakistan on Monday, causing the building to collapse, officials said.
Oscar short docs race showcases booming art form
AFP, Published on 07/03/2023
» LOS ANGELES - When marine biologist Maxim Chakilev flings open the door of his ramshackle Siberian hut in the Oscar-nominated short documentary "Haulout" to find 100,000 honking and heaving walruses, the effect is breathtakingly cinematic.
Girls' education ban won't last, Nobel laureate tells Taliban
AFP, Published on 26/03/2022
» The Taliban's ban on girls' education won't last forever, Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai said on Saturday, emphasising that Afghan women now know what it is to be "empowered".
Nobel Prize winning activist Malala gets married
AFP, Published on 10/11/2021
» LONDON: Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Pakistani Taliban for campaigning for girls' education, got married on Tuesday in a small ceremony in Birmingham, central England, she announced on social media.
Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai: 'I fear for my Afghan sisters'
AFP, Published on 18/08/2021
» NEW YORK - Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai on Tuesday wrote "I fear for my Afghan sisters" in an op-ed published in The New York Times in the wake of the Taliban's stunning takeover.