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After the Taliban seized their school, Afghanistan’s all-female orchestra tried to flee. Only some escaped.

By Sudarsan Raghavan

washingtonpost.com/world/2021/10/…
"Today, their school—Afghanistan National Institute of Music—is a military base of the Haqqani network, hard-line group allied with the Taliban with strong links to al-Qaeda."

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"evacuation operation bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers, @SpeakerPelosi, @RepLizCheney +senior American politicians+ military officials.

But the chaotic effort failed
to get the girls+scores of other students+faculty out of the country before the U.S. withdrawal was complete." Image
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Following today’s debate with @anders_aslund on Biden’s sanctions policy vis-a-vis Russia, I launch a test: the US president should impose sanctions on Russia based on Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991 (@navalny poisoning). Will Biden do?
PS. Of course, president Trump may partially do it, but sanctions should be in two wave; second should follow 90+ days after the first.
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US and European politicians, led by Senators @MarkWarner and @MarcoRubio, came together to call for tough measures to fight foreign interference in our democratic elections.

Read their communiqué in full at atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atla…

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The Communiqué’s first recommendation deals with how foreign election interference infringes citizens’ fundamental democratic right to representation. #RussiaFactor @ACEurasia 3/
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T: Opening our event with @MarkWarner and @MarcoRubio, @FredKempe says: “This event brings together members of Congress and parliamentarians from both sides of the aisle and both sides of the Atlantic… for a discussion of the Kremlin’s interference in democratic elections.” 1/
.@markwarner: "@POTUS’ actions today were outrageous. The president of the United States sided with Vladimir Putin over the unanimous assessment of the American intelligence community."
.@marcorubio: "What @POTUS said today is not accurate. The intelligence community has assembled probably an unparalleled amount of evidence in regards to the Russian–not just efforts to interfere in 2016 but ongoing efforts to interfere American society." 3/
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