Afghanistan: Taliban claims to control Panjshir valley

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Resistance fighters dispute the claim, but call for a ceasefire. Meanwhile, the European Union is preparing a package to pay Afghanistan’s neighbours in a bid to ward off an “uncontrolled large-scale” wave of refugees. And leaders of a coup in Guinea have ordered government ministers and other prominent national figures to attend a meeting in a few hours time - or be treated as rebels.