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Swiss media have reported that Switzerland has deported two Afghan migrants described as “criminals.”

The Taliban’s Supreme Court has announced that the criminal court in Kunar province publicly flogged eight individuals on charges of same-sex relations, theft, and running away from home.

The 2024 Global Hunger Index has ranked Afghanistan 116th out of 127 countries, with a score of 30.8. Last year, Afghanistan held the 114th position with a score of 30.6, indicating a decline of two places in this year’s evaluation.

The French news agency AFP, citing a source close to the case, reported that the Afghan man arrested in Toulouse, France, is the brother of the individual accused of plotting an attack on the U.S. presidential election day.

The Afghanistan Freedom Front has claimed responsibility for the killing of three Taliban members, including an official from the Taliban’s Intelligence Department 90, in an attack on Saturday evening at the Alaudin intersection in Kabul.

The Taliban has not been invited to the upcoming meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), which will be held in Pakistan on Tuesday, October 15 and Wednesday, October 16.

The Speaker of the Iranian Parliament announced that during his visit to Tajikistan, he discussed Afghanistan, the fight against narcotics and arms smuggling.

The Taliban's Supreme Court announced that the group's criminal court in Kandahar has punished a person for robbery in Kandahar by flogging him in public.

Jafar Mahdavi, a former member of parliament, claimed that talks between the Taliban and the group's political opponents have "entered promising stages”.

Local sources told Afghanistan International that a vehicle ferrying Taliban members ran over and killed General Abdul Rauf Mohtaj, the chief of staff of the 209th Shaheen Corps in the former government's army.

Tajikistan's Deputy Foreign Minister said at a meeting between the Russian and Tajikistan parliaments that security cooperation between Dushanbe and Moscow is focused on Afghanistan's problems.

The Taliban's deputy prime minister announced on Thursday that the contract for the extraction of gas reserves in the Faryab field has been awarded to an Uzbekistani company.

The US State Department has reaffirmed that it continues to classify the Taliban as a "terrorist organisation”.

Director of the Iranian Bureau for Aliens and Foreign Immigrants' Affairs (BAFIA) of Khorasan Razavi Governorate said that 270,000 Afghan refugees were returned to Afghanistan in the first half of this year through the Dogharoun border.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai quoted Afghan human rights activists as saying that "the Taliban's cruelty and extreme oppression of Afghan women" is an example of gender apartheid.

The Taliban's Ministry of Information and Culture recently held the third short film festival with "cultural and jihadi" themes in Kabul.

The UN refugee agency reported that the Taliban's law for the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice has increased psychological pressure on Afghan women.

Grigory Karasin, chairman of the International Affairs Committee of the Council of the Russian Federation, said that continuing dialogue with the Taliban is important in order to maintain peace and stability in Central Asia.

Hilary Power, a senior official at Human Rights Watch, called the new UN Human Rights Council resolution another failure for the council.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday released a report on the situation of the former Afghan government's female police personnel.

Bakhtar News Agency, under the control of the Taliban, censored the picture of Veronika Bošković, the European Union's chargé d'affaires in Afghanistan.