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"These restrictions further impede women's lives and limit women's access to health care," Sarah Chateau, the agency's programme manager in Afghanistan, told the BBC.

Ms Chateau said Taliban members had been denying entry to women without the burka by standing at the entrance of the health facilities.

"Even though the veil edit was announced earlier, this is the first time we are seeing the enforcement of the burka in Herat. In the past few days more and more women are coming to the hospital with burkas," Ms Chateau said.

Greeting guests is a photo of Château de La Colle Noire, Monsieur Dior’s Provence estate while large windows and a large terrace allow for guests to soak up the California sun while overlooking the city.

I found myself laughing out loud at McIntyre’s story of standing up the Baroness Philippine de Rothschild of Château Mouton Rothschild for lunch, a self-deprecating recollection of life as a tyro wine writer.