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The Taliban's Supreme Court announced that it had flogged two men in the Khoshamand district of Paktika province on charges of having same-sex relations.

The Taliban's Supreme Court announced that the group's primary court in Sayed Abad district of Maidan Wardak has punished a man for allegedly having sexual relations with another man.

A number of female health workers in Kandahar told Afghanistan International that the Taliban's morality authorities have warned them not to go to work without a male relative.

Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada recalled his cabinet members from Kabul to Kandahar on Sunday, sources told Afghanistan International.

A Taliban military court in Kabul has sentenced Abdul Karim Abbasi, the former head of the Panjshir provincial council, to 12 years in prison.

An Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said that Tehran was "surprised and upset" that "some Taliban officials" took the news of the shooting of Afghan migrants by Iranian border guards seriously.

Local sources from Herat told Afghanistan International that the Taliban arrested two influential Shia clerics in the town of Jibril and transferred them to an unknown location.

The Taliban's Supreme Court announced the execution of 39 lashes on a woman and a man in Farkhar district of Takhar province.

The Taliban's Supreme Court announced in a statement on Monday, November 4, that the group had flogged a woman in Nangarhar province.

Abdul Mateen Qani, the spokesman for the Taliban's Interior Ministry, announced the formation of a mobile motorcycle patrol group in Badakhshan.

Since the Taliban's return to power in August 2021, Afghanistan has received a total of about $6.7 billion in aid, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported.

Following the meeting between the Maldivian ambassador Mohamed Thoha and a Taliban diplomat in Pakistan, the Maldivian Foreign Ministry announced that the meeting took place without their permission and approval.

The Iran Human Rights organisation has reported a significant rise in the executions of Afghans in Iran since the Taliban regained power, with 90 Afghans executed in the country since 2022.

David Sproule, Canada’s Special Representative for Afghanistan has announced that the country supports the political stance of Afghanistan’s National Resistance Front (NRF).

Gul Bibi, a 55-year-old woman reportedly assaulted by a Taliban police commander in the Darqad district of Takhar province, has succumbed to her injuries in hospital.

Hossein Sharafati-Rad, Director General of Foreign Nationals and Immigrants Affairs in Iran’s Razavi Khorasan Province, announced that approximately 3,000 Afghan migrants are deported daily through the Dogharoun border after being detained.

Some students at the Journalism Faculty of Sheikh Zayed University in Khost province report that the Taliban has banned all forms of photography and filming at the faculty.

The National Dialogue Process has announced that a two-day meeting held in Istanbul, Türkiye, convened with the participation of 70 representatives from diverse ethnic and political backgrounds in Afghanistan.

On the occasion of the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, the US Embassy in Afghanistan said that Afghan journalists face threats, violence and intimidation.

Residents of Kabul reported a powerful explosion in the "Company" area, located in the fifth district of Kabul city, on Saturday evening, November 2. Kabul residents said that the blast caused flames and smoke could be seen billowing from a distance.

During a visit to the Mirjaveh region, Eskandar Momeni, the Iranian Interior Minister, said that closing the border has a significant impact on the security of the region, preventing drug trafficking and organising foreign nationals.