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Taliban rebukes UN concerns over laws banning women’s faces, voices in public

The Taliban on Monday rejected concerns and criticism of the United Nations over new vice and virtue laws which ban women in Afghanistan from baring their faces and speaking in public places.Roza Otunbayeva, who heads the U.N. mission in the country, UNAMA, said Sunday the laws provided a “distressing vision”…

Iceland ice cave collapse kills 1 tourist, leaves 2 others missing

A tourist is dead and two others are missing after an ice cave partially collapsed in southern Iceland, as a group was visiting the Breidamerkurjokull glacier on Sunday.The group of about 25 foreign tourists from several nationalities were exploring ice caves with a guide shortly before 3 p.m., when four…