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Added on the 01/11/2021 12:41:54 - Copyright : France 24 EN
Doctors form a picket line outside the University College Hospital in Londonas England's hospital doctors begin their longest strike action yet in a move that health bosses fear will pile pressure on services at the busiest time of year. Six more days of industrial action are planned from January 3. IMAGES
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai says that Taliban rule in Afghanistan has made "girlhood illegal", in her keynote speech at an event held by the Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg to commemorate the anti-apartheid icon. “The Taliban have made girlhood illegal and it is taking a toll,” she says. IMAGES
Four Afghan women threatened by the Taliban and exiled in neighbouring Pakistan arrive at Roissy airport in Paris, several months after fleeing the Taliban regime that regained power in Afghanistan in the summer of 2021. IMAGES
Afghan women protest in Kabul, defying a dissent crackdown to voice opposition to foreign nations formally recognising the Taliban government. Ahead of a United Nations-convened international meeting on Afghanistan in Doha next week, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said diplomats could discuss "baby steps" that could put the Taliban government on the path to recognition, albeit with conditions attached. But Stephane Dujarric, the spokesman for secretary-general Antonio Guterres, on Wednesday stressed that Mohammed "was not in any way implying that anyone else but member states have the authority for recognition" of Afghanistan's government. IMAGES
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is visited in hospital by his family, including his eldest daughter Marina, as his doctors say in a statement that he suffers from "chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia". Berlusconi was rushed into intensive care yesterday due to respiratory difficulties. IMAGES
Women gather near a university in Kabul as the Tablian bans them from university education. The ban has provoked condemnation from the United States and the United Nations over another assault on human rights. IMAGES