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EU: Taliban government not keeping promises

The European Union voiced disapproval of the Taliban's provisional government in Afghanistan, saying they had not kept a promise to include women and other religious groups, Reuters writes. "It does not look like the inclusive and representative formation in terms of the rich ethnic and religious diversity of Afghanistan we hoped to see and that the Taliban were promising over the past weeks," foreign affairs spokesperson Peter Stano said.

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