US, allies call on Taliban to reopen girls schools in Afghanistan

The United States and other Western countries on Thursday condemned the Taliban’s decision to shut girl’s secondary schools in Afghanistan just hours after reopening them and urged the hardline Islamist movement to reverse course. The joint statement from the foreign ministers of Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Norway and the US, plus the high representative of the European Union, said the decision Wednesday […]

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