Afghanistan has not really been in the limelight since 2021 withdrawal. Women and girls are missing from offices and classrooms. A generation of girls is seeing its hopes and dreams shattered. Some 20 million people are at risk of severe hunger. And we can't afford to forget this country, especially in the middle of a very, very unusually cold winter where even more lives are at stake.
The response to the death of the 29-year-old has differed from that of previous cases of police killings; we ask what the tragedy indicates about how America deals with police violence. Our correspondent says a lawmaker’s murder in Afghanistan highlights the misery of women under the Taliban. And why a decades-old model of animal and human learning is under fire.
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