Details: The talks offer a window into any future peace deal. The Taliban, which barred women from public life during their time in power, said they now respected women’s rights to education and work — a claim met with immediate skepticism in Afghanistan. One former governor who was forced from office last year urged a gradual withdrawal of foreign troops.

In Afghanistan: None of the talks have included representatives of the U.S.-backed government in Kabul. President Ashraf Ghani criticized the Moscow meeting as an attempt to undermine the authority of the Afghan state, though Afghanistan’s political elite is beginning to rally around the peace effort.

Of note: Thirty years after the Soviet Union retreated from Afghanistan, the Russian government played a quiet but major role in orchestrating this meeting, and has pointed to the U.S. military presence in the country as the main hindrance to peace.

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Venezuela: Opposition leaders said they’re preparing to deliver food and medicine donations to ease the country’s shortages, which would likely weaken the authority of President Nicolás Maduro. But some major relief organizations are reluctant to cooperate, fearing that the plan could turn aid into a political weapon.

#MeToo: A psychiatrist and nuclear disarmament activist has accused the former president of Costa Rica, Oscar Arias Sánchez, of sexually assaulting her four years ago, bringing the movement to one of Latin America’s most revered statesman.

Paris: At least 10 people were killed and 37 injured after a fire tore through an eight-story building in a residential part of the city — the deadliest in the French capital in over a decade. The fire appeared to be tied to a neighborhood dispute, and the authorities are treating it as a possible case of arson.