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Karzai inauguration: the empty city of Kabul
Kabul was the emptiest of cities this morning. The only way to move around – given the universal ban on private vehicles that has successfully staved off the predictable attack by the Taliban – was on foot. The traffic that usually blocks the city vanished. We found ourselves learning that routes between places we normally…
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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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Inherited Tory asylum backlog ‘costing us billions’ – Home Secretary
We spoke to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper from the Blenheim conference.
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Taliban bans women from university in Afghanistan
Classes for female students have been stopped, while security forces have prevented women in the Afghan capital Kabul from entering university campuses after the country’s Taliban rulers imposed a new ban on women and girls from accessing higher education.
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Taliban in control: a year of power in Afghanistan
The Taliban has been parading through the streets of the Afghan capital Kabul to mark one year in power.
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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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Bin Laden ally and al-Qaeda terrorist leader killed by US drone strike
He was Osama Bin Laden’s right hand man and following his death became the leader of al-Qaeda. Last night President Biden announced that Ayman al-Zawahiri had been killed by a US drone strike in the heart of downtown Kabul. The FBI’s most wanted terrorist he played a pivotal role in the planning of the September…
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Afghanistan: Taliban pledges to end country’s opium dependence – but it won’t be easy
An edict by Afghanistan’s hardline Taliban rulers to ban poppy cultivation has gone largely ignored.
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Afghanistan: Gunfire outside major gathering of Taliban leaders
Gunfire and explosions were heard in the Afghan capital Kabul – as Taliban rulers held their first major gathering since seizing power in August last year.
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Afghanistan: Inside a school for girls – but will Taliban allow it?
Three thousand Islamic scholars and Taliban leaders will gather for policy talks in the Afghan capital Kabul tomorrow – and high on their agenda will be girls’ education and forming a more inclusive government – issues which the international community is putting pressure on the Taliban.
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Challenges getting aid to Afghanistan earthquake survivors, says World Food Programme
We were joined from Kabul by Shelley Thakral from the World Food Programme.
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Risk of Putin starving international community, says shadow foreign secretary
Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy has flown to the Afghan capital Kabul to see the impact of the catastrophic food shortages first hand.
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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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Pen Farthing has ‘no idea’ who authorised Afghanistan evacuation
As well as being engulfed in allegations about parties and cake, the prime minister has also been accused of being involved in a controversial operation to airlift animals out of Afghanistan, and then allegedly lying about it.
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PM denies authorising animal evacuation from Afghanistan
The questions over Downing Street lockdown parties remain on hold for now – as lawyers and human resources experts sift through Sue Gray’s report before it is published.
