{"id":225670,"date":"2026-06-23T09:45:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T09:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/225670\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T09:45:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T09:45:06","slug":"afghan-taliban-to-hold-rare-closed-door-talks-with-eu-officials-on-deportations-ap-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/225670\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan Taliban to hold rare, closed-door talks with EU officials on deportations | Ap-world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS (AP) \u2014 A delegation from the Afghan Taliban is traveling to Brussels on Tuesday for closed-door talks with European Union staff, expected to focus on deportations, said a Taliban official.<\/p>\n<p>Rights groups said the meeting undercuts the EU\u2019s human rights obligations and could endanger people in Europe and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium issued 24-hour visas to the Taliban delegation, which includes New Zealand-born Abdul Qahar Balkhi, a spokesperson for the Taliban\u2019s foreign ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRUSSELS (AP) \u2014 A delegation from the Afghan Taliban is traveling to Brussels on Tuesday for closed-door talks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[97958,153,155,154,38,27953,741,50,301],"class_list":["post-225670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-afghan-taliban-brussels-eu-deportations-migration","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-general-news","tag-human-rights","tag-immigration","tag-politics","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}