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January 24, 2022

Bus Bomb Kills 7 People in Afghanistan; Taliban Officials Arrive in Olso for International Talks
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In Afghanistan, at least seven people were killed Saturday after a bomb
went off on a bus in the western city of Herat.

Taliban leaders are holding three-day talks in Oslo with Afghan civil
society representatives and officials from the U.S. and European
nations. The parties are expected to discuss women's rights, as well as
access to billions of dollars in frozen assets and aid money. The U.N.
warns foreign sanctions are leading Afghanistan to an even worse
humanitarian disaster, with some 23 million Afghans facing extreme
hunger and nearly 9 million at risk of famine.


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