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Afghanistan Goes to the Polls

20/10/2018 GMT

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Afghans vote in parliamentary polls; should parents ban daughters seeing Disney films?

Defiant Afghans vote in parliamentary elections; should parents ban their young daughters from seeing classic Disney films?  After two weeks of denial, the Saudi authorities have confirmed that the journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside their consulate in Istanbul. But is their version of events credible?

(Image: An Afghan woman casts her vote at a polling station in Jalalabad. Credit: EPA)

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