Afghanistan under Taliban rule: Families face desperate choices to survive poverty
Also this week, climate change was so critical in Australia's election that the poll was dubbed the "climate election". There was a surge in support for candidates wanting urgent action on climate, like Greens and independents. In the end, the Labor Party of Anthony Albanese won, ending nine years of conservative rule.
Finally, South Korea's new president Yoon Suk-yeol has proposed a range of controversial moves. But one has united most of the population on both sides of the political aisle: a plan to scrap the Korean age system. If it goes ahead, it would mean Koreans are to become one or two years younger! FRANCE 24's Yena Lee tells us more.
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