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CIA-backed Afghan troops 'committed war crimes'

Human Rights Watch report based on dozens of witness and local resident accounts says abuse committed by Afghan troops.

Afghan strike forces backed by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have committed abuses "amounting to war crimes", according to a new report; Twitter is to ban all political advertising worldwide, saying that the reach of such messages "should be earned, not bought"; and we ask Europeans living in the UK for their perspective on Brexit.

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