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AlJazeera update: death toll rises to 35.

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The very sad news of the passing of Professor Franklin Lewis, of the University of Chicago, is being reported via the Adabiyat list.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/15/saudi-arabia-executions-double-2022/

https://indianexpress.com/article/world/afghanistan-taliban-uprising-mahdi-8098753/

‘The rumbling of engines echoed across the valley at dusk as scores of men with mismatched camouflage and mud-caked Kalashnikovs descended into the town in northern Afghanistan.

Many had driven hours down the snow-capped mountains to reach the town and join forces with Mawlawi Mahdi Mujahid, a former Shiite commander within the mostly Sunni Taliban who had recently renounced the new Taliban government and seized control of this district.’