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Pakistan: inside the 'Taliban generation'
If you’re the sort of person who lies awake at night worrying that the Taliban might get their hands on nuclear weapons, probably best you avoid watching Dispatches on this channel tonight. News correspondents all too often end up reporting the incremental ratcheting up of a problem. It’s startling to be confronted with the big…
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Taliban attacks cause confusion in Kabul
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN – It’s hard to either feel safe or scared most of the time in Kabul. Part of the city wants to be like Baghdad; security companies whisk people back and forth from the airport, HESCO barriers line some roads, and large chunks of the government and Nato apparatus are concealed behind barbed wire…
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Afghan Youth Orchestra to tour UK after Home Office visas U-turn
Musicians in the Afghan Youth Orchestra have said it is a “fantastic experience” to play in the UK after initially being denied visas to enter the country. The Home Office had refused the orchestra entry but after a public backlash reversed the decision. The musicians fled Afghanistan after the return of the Taliban, and currently…
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Afghan refugees could face homelessness in UK say charities
Charities have raised concerns that Afghan refugees – many of whom helped British troops before the Taliban takeover – could end up homeless as a result of a new government plan to move them out of hotel accommodation.
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Albanian police presence in Kent aims to deter migrants
According to Home Office figures published today, the number of people detected arriving by small boats has more than doubled from nearly 6000 in the first half of 2021 to over 12,700 in the same six month period in 2022.
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Government urged to permanently house 10,000 Afghan refugees still stuck in hotels
It’s been a year since Kabul fell and the Taliban took complete control of Afghanistan.
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Inside Afghanistan’s healthcare system on the brink of collapse
In Afghanistan, the healthcare system is on the brink of collapse.
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Inside Al Shabaab: The extremist group trying to seize Somalia
For more than fifteen years the extremist group Al Shabaab has been fighting a bloody insurgency in Somalia.
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Refugees fleeing other conflicts ask for same treatment as Ukrainian refugees
The UK’s “Homes for Ukraine” scheme opened yesterday with more than 100,000 people offering to house Ukrainian refugees.
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Refugees from Afghanistan finding hope and homes in Wales
Channel 4 News was given exclusive access to a programme helping to introduce some of those Afghan refugees to life in the country.
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Thousands of Afghan evacuees stuck in hotels after fleeing to UK
When the Taliban seized control of their homeland, thousands of Afghan evacuees, who once worked for the British, were promised sanctuary here in the UK.
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How Pen Farthing got 150 animals out of Afghanistan
In the summer of 2021 desperate people in Kabul tried to board the last flights out of the Afghan capital. A man called Pen Farthing made it out with 150 animals.
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Johnson approved evacuation of animals from Afghanistan, emails suggest
The prime minister faced more questions today on his conduct – not on parties this time, but on his possible involvement in the evacuation of animals from Kabul.
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FactCheck: has Johnson broken his promise to resettle 5,000 Afghans?
So far, just one family has been resettled under the scheme.
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The world in 2022: what to expect
What might happen in the world in 2022?