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A senior Taliban official has called on the militant group to open schools for women and girls, a rare sign of internal divisions around one of the flagship policies of Afghanistan&s de facto rulers.

Palestinians began searching yesterday for thousands of Gazans believed to be still buried under rubble, as residents expressed shock at the devastation wrought by 15 months of war on the enclave on the second day of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

The longest-serving Palestinian inmate in an Israeli jail, revered by militants as the &dean& of their prisoners, is among more than 200 Palestinians set to be deported under the Gaza ceasefire and hostages-for-prisoners swap.