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Thousands Of Afghan Salons To Close As Taliban Deadline Bites

Women walk past a beauty salon in the Shahr-e-Naw area of Kabul ahead ahead of the order for beauty parlours across the country to shut permanently
Since seizing power in August 2021, the Taliban government has barred girls and women from high schools and universities, banned them from parks, funfairs and gyms, and ordered them to cover up in public. An order issued last month forces the closure of thousands of salons nationwide run by women.
The breakdown of a deal between Russia and Ukraine allowing the export of grain through the Black Sea is causing wheat prices to rise and putting more people at risk of hunger

UN Talks Seek To Fix 'Broken' Global Food System

A three-day United Nations summit opened in Rome on Monday aimed at tackling a "broken" global food system where millions are starving, two billion are overweight or obese and the planet is suffering.
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Followers of Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr hold his portrait aloft during a protest after they believed a Koran had been desecrated in Denmark

Iraqis Keep Up Koran Protests After Book Burnings

Iraqi security forces on Saturday dispersed about 1,000 supporters of Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada Sadr who tried to march to Baghdad's Green Zone housing foreign embassies, believing a Koran had been desecrated in Denmark.
The decision by India comes as rice prices were already soaring owing to a range of issues including the pandemic, the Ukraine war and the El Nino weather phenomenon

Top Rice Supplier India Bans Some Exports

The world's biggest rice exporter India has banned some overseas sales of the grain "with immediate effect", the government said, in a move that could drive international prices even higher.

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