Afghanistan: Taliban arrest women protesting against university

2022-12-22

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1. Afghanistan: Taliban arrest women protesting against university

- The Taliban have arrested five women taking part in a protest in the Afghan capital, Kabul, against the ban on women attending universities.

- 3 journalists were also arrested. Protests are also understood to have taken place in the Takhar province.

- Guards stopped hundreds of women from entering universities on Wednesday - a day after the ban was announced.

2. Serial killer The Serpent, Charles Sobhraj, to be freed from Nepal jail

- A French serial killer portrayed in BBC drama The Serpent is to be freed from a Nepalese prison, after a court ruling.

- Charles Sobhraj, who spent 19 years in jail for the murder of 2 tourists in Kathmandu in 1975, has been ordered to return to France within 15 days.

- Sobhraj was linked to a string of other tourist murders in the 1970s, and spent 20 years in prison in India.

3. Arizona-Mexico border: Container wall to be dismantled

- Authorities in the US state of Arizona have agreed to remove a wall made of shipping containers at the Mexican border following protests.

- The state's Republican governor, who had the barrier installed, argued that it would halt migrants crossing into America.

- But the critics who filed legal challenges have questioned this.

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