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The Taliban has turned Afghanistan into the worst place on Earth to be a woman (Picture: Bulent Kilic)

Taliban’s treatment of women shows need for apartheid-style boycott Susan Dalgety

The overturning of the Roe v Wade case by the US Supreme Court has led to bans on abortion in a dozen states (Picture: Stefani Reynolds)

How US Christian right is waging Taliban-style war on women Susan Dalgety

International community must show the same courage as a small Scottish charity Susan Dalgety

Gordon Brown: Scottish initiative is example to the world Gordon Brown

There are concerns a global heroin shortage could lead to more Scots turning to synthetic opioids.

Concerns killer drugs could sweep across Scotland

Afghan residents clear debris from a damaged house after earthquake in Sarbuland village of Zendeh Jan district of Herat province (Photo by Mohsen KARIMI / AFP) (Photo by MOHSEN KARIMI/AFP via Getty Images)

Afghanistan earthquake: Taliban - ‘at least' 2000 dead in densely populated area

Ferhana, working in her clothes shop in Kabul.

'I have to fight for the future of Afghan women'

Women flee after Taliban fighters beat them and fire bullets into the air to break up a protest in Afghanistan's capital Kabul in August last year (Picture: Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images)

‘Ethical foreign policy’ or not, UK should treat Taliban as pariahs

Anaita Wali Zala in Fremont

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Taliban fighters stand guard near the former presidential palace in Kabul (Picture: Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images)

Tory MP’s Taliban video would shock Malcolm Tucker into civility

NGOs have warned of a humanitarian crisis in the poverty-stricken nation.

Plight of women and girls in Afghanistan is 'worst in the world' says UN

Prince Harry's memoir spare

Bloodsoaked copies of Prince Harry memoir Spare sell for huge sum

Andy Reid climbed Mt Kilimanjaro (photo: Guinness World Records)

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In this photograph from May last year, Matiullah Wesa, head of PenPath and advocate for girls' education in Afghanistan, speaks to children during a class next to his mobile library in Spin Boldak district of Kandahar Province.

Afghan campaigner for women’s education detained by Taliban

Canada's population grew by over a million in a year.

Canada’s population grow by one million in a year for first time in history

Ice hockey fans celebrate in Helsinki, after Finland's team won the Winter Olympic Games gold medal last year (Picture: Antti Aimo-Koivisto/Lehtikuva/AFP via Getty Images)

World Happiness Report contains a lesson about the benefits of social democracy

Pakistan's former president Pervez Musharraf (left) walks down after taking the oath as a civilian president at the presidential palace in Islamabad. Picture: Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images

Pakistan’s former military ruler Pervez Musharraf dies

A woman looks at a picture of former Afghan lawmaker Mursal Nabizada on her mobile phone, who was shot dead by gunmen at her house in Kabul. Picture: AFP via Getty Images

World needs to 'stop watching with silence' as former Afghan MP killed

Prince Harry with host Stephen Colbert during the recording of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" on Tuesday

HARRY DENIES TALIBAN KILL BOASTS AND SAYS FAMILY IN CAMPAIGN TO UNDERMINE BOOK

Harry, Duke of Sussex, appeared on CBS late night talk show The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday evening (US time)

Harry addresses Taliban controversy on Late Show appearance in US

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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex attending the Invictus Games athletics events in the Athletics Park, at Zuiderpark the Hague, Netherlands. Picture: Aaron Chown/PA Wire

Harry accused of making Invictus Games a target with Taliban kills details

The Duke of Sussex has now turned against his “other family, the military” after revealing he killed 25 people in Afghanistan, a retired British Army colonel has said.

Ex-colonel says Harry has now turned against his ‘other family, the military’

Prince Harry reveals he killed 25 Taliban while serving in Afghanistan

Commuters make their way along a street during snowfall in Kabul on Thursday.

Taliban ban on female workers has ‘life-threatening consequences’ for Afghans

Women hold placards during a protest calling for their rights to be recognised, near the Shah-e-Do Shamshira mosque in Kabul .

Taliban holds public lashing in Afghan football stadium

The Taliban have banned Afghan women from entering the capital's public parks, gyms and funfairs. (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Taliban hard-liners now add gyms to list of no-go areas for women

The Afghan community in London flew kites on Hampstead Heath this summer to commemorate one year since the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban.

The Afghan woman who had to pay her son to accompany her on a work trip

Mostaqim with x-ray images of the injuries he sustained in a suicide bomb attack.

'The international community should not forget Afghanistan'

People waving Afghan flags during a protest. Picture: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Charity condemns Government ‘malaise’ over shrinking Afghanistan aid

A US Marine lifts a baby over a barbed wire fence at Kabul's international airport as people scrambled to escape the advance of the Taliban in August last year (Picture courtesy of Omar Haidiri/AFP via Getty Images)

Kabul fiasco shows why UK needs to be more like France – Tim Willasey-Wilsey

A fortunate few who fled Afghanistan were flown to freedom while others were forced to walk for days to escape the Taliban

Government hotel bill for Afghanistan refugees is £1 million a day

Clear guidance can help avoid sanctions errors - Stacy Keen

Afghan internally displaced people, who fled to Yakawlang district of Bamyan province due to fighting between Taliban forces and a breakaway group led by one of their former commanders , gather outdoors in Duzdanchisma village.

UK Government needs to ‘radically increase’ Afghan resettlement scheme

Villagers along with rescue workers examine the extent of damage at a village following an earthquake in Bernal district, Paktika province,which killed at least 1,000 people and left thousands more homeless.

How the Taliban regime has had to ask for international help after earthquake

Afghan migrants walk along a path to reach Tatvan city in Turkey after President Joe Biden announced US troops would withdraw from Afghanistan (Picture: Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

An astonishingly brave account of Afghan refugees' journey – Laura Waddell

Newly recruited Taliban fighters display their skills during a graduation ceremony at the Abu Dujana National Police Training centre in Kandahar on February 9, 2022. (Photo by Javed TANVEER / AFP) (Photo by JAVED TANVEER/AFP via Getty Images)

Former BBC journalist detained in Afghanistan by Taliban

Taliban fighters sit on a vehicle along a road in the Herat.

West needs to accept the Taliban rules Afghanistan, says former UK defence chief

People take part in a protest outside Downing Street in Westminster.

Long-awaited Afghan resettlement scheme grants leave to remain to first family

Afghans crowd the tarmac of Kabul airport on 16 August, 2021, trying to flee the country after the Taliban took control PIC: AFP via Getty Images

Book review: The Ledger: Accounting for Failure in Afghanistan, by David Kilcull...

Sayed Zaman Hashemi and his family - Ramin Hashemi 17; Masih Hashemi 8; and Shahyad Hashemi 13 - who have fled from the Taliban in Afghanistan and are currently in Perth. Picture: Michael Gillen

Afghanistan chief opens up on becoming a refugee in Scotland

Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab is facing criticism for his role in the Afghanistan crisis

Dominic Raab blamed for ‘dysfunctional and chaotic’ Afghanistan evacuation
Dominic Raab has been urged to “consider his position” after a whistleblower alleged he led a “dysfunctional” and “chaotic” operation while foreign secretary.

In evidence presented to MPs, a whistleblower has said then Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab ‘failed to grasp the situation' in Afghanistan (image: Getty Images)

Whistleblower reveals UK Government ‘failures’ over Afghanistan evacuation

Nicola Sturgeon meets climate activists Vanessa Nakate, right, and Greta Thunberg, left, during the COP26 climate summit (Picture: Andy Buchanan/pool/Getty Images)

The problem with virtue signalling on Twitter – Susan Dalgety

An teaghlach Afghanach ann an Leòdhas còmhla ri Iain is Lorna Norgrove

'B’ fheàrr leam an t-uisge na an Taliban'

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace hit out at the US president over Afghanistan.

Defence Secretary criticises Donald Trump deal with Taliban

Donald Trump has announced plans to launch a social media platform called Truth Social that will rolled be out early next year.

Donald Trump to launch social media platform company

UK military personnel prior to boarding an RAF Voyager aircraft at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, as part of a 600-strong UK-force sent to assist with the operation to rescue British nationals in Afghanistan.

UK Government plea to councils and businesses to help resettle evacuated Afghans

The British Army is encouraging more women to apply for all roles.

British Army wants to recruit more women

There’s no confusion over what Boris Johnson's government stands for, unlike the Labour party, says Ayesha Hazarika (Picture: Dominic Lipinski/WPA pool/Getty Images)

Johnson's reshuffle shows his government is proudly populist – Ayesha Hazarika

Girls walk upstairs as they enter a school before class in Kabul (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Taliban flag raised over Afghanistan presidential palace

People embrace at the September 11th Memorial in New York City.

9/11 anniversary and why we should become 'patriots of humanity' - Henry McLeish

Roddy Gow OBE, Chairman, Asia Scotland Institute

How a Taliban victory in Afghanistan has changed the geopolitical map - Roddy Go...

Foreign secretary Dominic Raab with Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the House of Commons. Picture: PA

Sketch: Johnson pledges to tackle Afghanistan email backlog 'by close of play'

A Taliban soldier patrols at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. Picture: AP Photo/Wali Sabawoon

Ex-MI6 chief says Afghanistan withdrawal 'unnecessarily messy'

Foreign secretary Dominic Raab speaks during a press conference along with Pakistan's foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi (not pictured) after their meeting in Islamabad. Picture: Farooq Naeem/AFP via Getty Images

Raab insists on 'widespread surprise' at pace of Taliban takeover in Afghanistan

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