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The Reporters Without Borders (RSF) organisation has called for the immediate reopening of a local radio "Zhman" in Khost province of Afghanistan.

During a meeting with JP Singh, an official of the Indian Foreign Ministry, Taliban’s Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said that the group expects its relations with Delhi to develop.

Eskandar Momeni, the Iranian Interior Minister, said that the production of traditional drugs in Afghanistan has decreased, but the production of industrial drugs such as methamphetamine has increased.

In response to Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential elections, the Taliban's foreign ministry expressed hope that the future US government would take "realistic steps" to improve the country's relations with the Taliban.

Despite the Taliban’s official ban on poppy cultivation, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has reported a 19% increase in Afghanistan’s poppy cultivation for 2024 compared to the previous year.

Iran Human Rights reported that the Islamic Republic has executed three prisoners, including an Afghan, at the Isfahan Central Prison.

The Taliban's Supreme Court announced that the group's primary court in Bagram district of Parwan province had flogged a woman and a man on charges of having extramarital affairs.

After Donald Trump declared his victory in the US presidential election, the presidents of the European Commission and the Council of Europe and a number of European leaders congratulated him on his victory.

In a meeting with Afghan journalists and activists in Ottawa, senior Canadian officials said that they are working to hold the Taliban accountable for widespread violations of women's rights.

Karen Decker, the charge d'affaires of the US Embassy in Afghanistan, said on Tuesday that Afghan journalists need to continue their work without fear of punishment and intimidation.

On Tuesday, the Taliban announced that at least 27 people had been flogged in four provinces.

The Taliban's police command in Takhar has appointed a committee to investigate the killing of Gul Bibi, a 55-year-old woman who was recently severely beaten to death by the group's police chief in Darqad District.

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.