From April 4 to 13, 2025, Les Messagères brings together nine Afghan actresses to perform Antigone, directed by Jean Bellorini.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

ISLAMABAD, March 7 (Reuters) - Pakistan's interior ministry on Friday asked all "illegal foreigners" and Afghan Citizen Card holders to leave the country before March 31, warning they would ...

“We have no right to education, no right to work, no right to even exist freely. They are removing us from society.” One woman in Afghanistan gives voice to what many Afghan women and girls are ...

Sky's Yalda Hakim speaks to Afghan women cricketers living in exile, as they urge the International Cricket Council to officially recognise them as Afghanistan's refugee team. Justin Trudeau tears ...

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of France on Saturday to mark International Women’s Day. While Femen activists in Paris marched with the US or Russian flag painted across their ...

Four years ago, Yalda never imagined that she would not be able to continue her education or achieve her dream of graduating from school. “My parents would often talk about the Taliban’s first ...

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, argues that any US-organised peace agreement would have to be accompanied by “security guarantees” from the US to prevent Russia from resuming its ...

The Taliban issued a message on International Women’s Day, saying Afghan women live in security with their rights protected, even as the UN condemned ongoing employment and education bans.

Issues of sovereignty, national security and defence — often footnotes, or even ignored outright in federal election ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Separatist militants wearing suicide vests were seated next to some of the dozens of passengers held hostage in a train hijack in southwest Pakistan, complicating rescue efforts, ...