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Justice delayed as Taliban build their legal system in Afghanistan

KANDAHAR, 14 Nov 2021 [Fik/News Sources]: A small carpeted room serves as a makeshift jail for 12 “criminals” who are awaiting Taliban justice, caught in the legal system which the militants are building at the heart of their new Afghan regime. None of the prisoners being held on the ground floor of the Taliban headquarters in Panjwai district in southern Afghanistan have yet seen the local judge, who is busy in another area. Until he arrives, the Taliban fighters of the unit in Kandahar province represent the entirety of the justice system. “They will keep me here until I can pay back the person I owe money to,” said Hajj Baran, a 41-year-old businessman arrested three days earlier for an outstanding debt. “We have a good system of judgment with the Islamic law of the Taliban,” he said, as

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UN chief 'deeply disturbed' by actions at Palestinian journalist's funeral

WASHINGTON, 14 May 2022 [Fik/News Sources]: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was "deeply disturbed" by the actions of "some" Israeli officers who violently attacked slain journalist Shireen Abu Akleh's funeral procession, his spokesman said on Friday. Guterres "was deeply disturbed by the confrontations between Israeli security forces and Palestinians gathered at St. Joseph Hospital, and the behavior of some police present at the scene," spokesman Farhan Haq said in a statement. "He continues to urge respect for fundamental human rights, including the rights to freedom of opinion and expression and to peaceful assembly," he added. Earlier on Friday, Israeli police surrounded mourners and used stun grenades and batons to assault pallbearers carrying Abu Akleh’s casket as it

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Kim Jong-un to visit US, denuclearize gradually

SEOUL, 13 Jun 2018 [Fik/News Sources]: North Korea's official media on Wednesday celebrated key outcomes from the previous day's summit between Chairman Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump, including a phased approach to the North's denuclearization and the expectation that Kim will visit the White House. The two leaders "gladly" accepted mutual invitations to each other's nations, according to Pyongyang's KCNA news agency. Such visits involving serving U.S. and North Korean leaders would be unprecedented. While both Kim and Trump appear pleased with their broad agreement that North Korea will denuclearize in return for American security guarantees, their deal did not produce a clear plan to bring about Washington's original goal to remove the North's nuclear weapons in a

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