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The Taliban Controls More of Afghanistan Than It Has Since 2001

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The Taliban Controls More of Afghanistan Than It Has Since 2001

Top News: According to a quarterly report by the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction, the Afghan government currently controls or has the upper hand in just over half of the country, and the Taliban controls more territory than at any point since 2001, when the United States first invaded.

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AFRICA

•  Human rights lawyer Meaza Ashenafi became the first woman chosen to lead Ethiopia’s top court.

•  Attackers suspected to be Boko Haram militants killed at least 15 people in an attack in northeast Nigeria on Wednesday, local residents told Reuters.

•  A Nigerian Shiite group said government forces killed 42 people in a crackdown on protests in Abuja, the capital.

AMERICAS

•  A court in Peru ruled that Opposition Leader Keiko Fujimori must remain in prison for three years as she awaits a trial on corruption charges.

•  Brazil’s far-right president-elect Jair Bolsonaro said he wanted to appoint Marcos Pontes, the country’s first person in space, as science and technology minister, and anti-corruption judge Sergio Moro as justice minister.

•  The ride-hailing service Uber said it would begin accepting cash in Mexico City.

ASIA

•  South Korea’s Supreme Court ruled that conscientious objectors citing religious or moral beliefs could legally refuse mandatory military service. More than 19,000 people have been imprisoned since 1950 for refusing to serve.

•  Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sri Lanka's prime minister who was forced from office last week by President Maithripala Sirisena, said his ouster was unconstitutional.

•  Indonesian divers recovered the black box from the Lion Air flight that crashed into the Java Sea on Monday, killing 189 people.

EUROPE

•  Denmark accused Iran of planning to assassinate an opposition activist on Danish soil.

•  A faulty sensor is to blame for a Russian Soyuz rocket capsule emergency landing last month, investigators said.

•  The European Union plans to sanction officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, including presidential candidate Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary.

MIDDLE EAST

•  Britain and the United States are pushing Saudi Arabia to agree to a cease-fire in Yemen.

•  The former British foreign minister, Boris Johnson, came under criticism for accepting $18,000 from the Saudi foreign ministry for a trip to the country last month.

•  Egyptian authorities arrested seven female human rights lawyers and activists in a crackdown on Thursday, Middle East Eye reports.

- By Benjamin Soloway

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