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Matthew Miller, the spokesperson for the US State Department, urged countries to adhere to the travel ban on Taliban officials.

On Wednesday, the United Nations Human Rights Office stated that the flogging of 63 men and women in Sar-e Pul province has “deeply disturbed" the organisation.

The International Taste Institute in Belgium, announced on Tuesday that after laboratory evaluations, Herat saffron was ranked first in terms of taste.

Two credible sources in Kabul told Afghanistan International that Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Taliban’s Minister of Interior, will meet US security officials during his visit to the United Arab Emirates.

Several anti-Taliban political parties and women’s groups have expressed their concerns about the upcoming third Doha meeting in a joint statement.

Sources told Afghanistan International that Taliban representatives, including Abdul Manan Omari, the special representative of Mullah Hibatullah in Qatar, discussed the third round of the Doha talks with US and UN representatives.

The Afghanistan United Front (AUF), led by Sami Sadat, former commander of Afghanistan's special forces, published a report on the threats posed by ISIS.

Rangin Dadfar Spanta, former Afghan National Security Advisor, in response to an attack by an Afghan assailant in Mannheim, Germany, called for the expulsion of Taliban sympathisers from the country.

Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Taliban's Minister of Interior, met with Mohammed bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the President of the United Arab Emirates, in Abu Dhabi.

Zamir Kabulov, the Russian President's special envoy for Afghanistan, has said that the Moscow Format Contact Group meeting on Afghanistan will be held on Saturday (June 8) in Tehran, the capital of Iran.

Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban’s spokesperson, refuted Tajik authorities’ concerns regarding the infiltration of extremism from Afghanistan to Central Asia.

On Monday, the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) supported the rights of Afghan women to education and employment in a meeting in Austria and urged the world to take practical steps to address this issue.

The Taliban flogged dozens of people in public on various charges at the central Sar-e-Pul stadium in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday.

As Kazakhstan moves to remove the Taliban from the list of terrorist groups, Rustam Emomali, speaker of Tajikistan's parliament, said that the spread of religious extremism from Afghanistan poses a threat to members of the CSTO.

Zhao Xing, China's Ambassador to Afghanistan, announced that he met Tomas Niklasson, the European Union's Special Envoy for Afghanistan, with the third Doha meeting round the corner.

The Taliban’s Supreme Court announced on Monday that a man in Parwan province was publicly flogged for having a sexual relationship with another man.

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the President of Kazakhstan, announced that the Taliban has been removed from the list of terrorist groups.

The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect has released a report highlighting systematic human rights violations in Afghanistan by the Taliban.

The Taliban's Prime Minister's office announced that Muhammad Jusuf Kalla, Indonesia's former Vice-President and head of the country's Mosque Council, has expressed interest in investing in Afghanistan's education and mining sectors.

Mullah Shirin, the Taliban’s governor of Kandahar, has urged the group's Interior Ministry to prioritise the needs of the "special units" safeguarding Hibatullah Akhundzada.

Abdullah Mobini, the head of Iran's National Migration Organisation, announced the implementation of over 40 plans to "organise migrants" in Iran.