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ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban on Saturday doubled down on their ban on women's education, reinforcing in a message to private universities that Afghan women are barred from taking university entry exams, according to a spokesman. The note comes despite weeks of condemnation and lobbying by the international community for a reversal on measures restricting women's freedoms, including two back-to-back visits this month by several senior U.N. officials. It also bodes ill for hopes that the Taliban could take steps to reverse their edicts anytime soon. The Taliban barred women from private and public universities last month. The higher education minister in the Taliban-run government, Nida Mohammed Nadim, has maintained that the ban is necessary to prevent the mixing of genders in universities — and because he believes some subjects being taught violate Islamic principles. Work was underway to fix these issues and universities would reopen for women once they were resolved, he had … [Read more...] about Taliban warn women can’t take entry exams at universities

(CTN NEWS) – TOKYO – After battling for years to market its goods despite objections from environmentalists, a Japanese whaling company has discovered a new strategy: whale meat vending machines. In the port city of Yokohama, close to Tokyo, a new unmanned store called The Kujira (Whale) Store has just opened. It has three machines for making whale sashimi, whale bacon, whale skin, whale steak, and canned whale meat. Prices start at 1,000 yen and go up to 3,000 yen ($7.70 to $23). The third store to open in the Japanese capital region includes white vending machines with cartoon whale decorations. After two others were unveiled in Tokyo earlier this year as a part of Kyodo Senpaku Co .’s new sales campaign, it opened on Tuesday. / AP Although sales in the new vending machines have quietly started off well, the operator notes that whale meat has long been a contentious topic. Since Japan ended its widely criticized research hunts in the Antarctic in … [Read more...] about Japan Firm Installs Whale Meat Vending Machines To Boost Sales

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 9 GENEVA (AP) — The question of if and how Russia competes at the Olympics hangs over the 2024 Paris Summer Games. Just as it has now for five straight Olympics during Thomas Bach’s leadership of the IOC, whose support this week for some Russians to compete in Paris was publicly challenged Friday by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Russia and its athletes have been at risk of being banned — though ultimately competed — at each Olympics since the steroid-tainted 2014 Sochi Winter Games that was Bach’s first as president of the International Olympic Committee. This time it is Russia waging war on Ukraine. Previously it was Russian state-backed doping and then Russian authorities trying to cover up evidence of that scandal. Zelenskyy wants Russia excluded from taking part in Paris while its military is occupying and attacking his country. … [Read more...] about Russia issue looms for Paris Olympics, Zelenskyy rebukes IOC