Taliban capture eighth provincial capital

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Afghanistan has 34 provinces in total. Reports say that thousands of civilians have been killed or wounded in fighting. Also on the programme: New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo resigns a week after the publication of an investigation which found that he had sexually harassed eleven women. And the interior minister of Latvia explains why her country has declared a state of emergency at its border with Belarus. (Picture: Internally displaced families take shelter in a public park in Kabul. Credit: Reuters/Stringer)

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