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Afghans at risk of near-universal poverty, UN report warns
Study suggests a worst-case scenario where 97% of Afghans would sink below poverty line by 2022Afghanistan’s p…
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Afghan women to be banned from playing sport, Taliban say
New Taliban interim government has loyalist hardliners in all key posts and no womenAfghan women, including th…
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Afghanistan services collapsing and aid about to run out, says UN
Unicef says hundreds of children have been separated from their families in chaos of Kabul evacuationAccess to…
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Poland halts Afghan evacuations as airlift winds down
Decision taken in consultation with allies after Biden says US sticking to 31 August withdrawal deadline Afgha…
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Taliban close Kabul airport road to Afghans to block their evacuation
Decision likely to leave tens of thousands who had been hoping to escape trapped under group’s controlAfghanis…
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US and allies will face ‘consequences’ if troops stay after deadline, Taliban warn
Militants say that forces must leave by 31 August, after Afghan guard is killed and three wounded in gun battl…
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Afghans face economic ruin as prices rise and cash runs low
Experts warn of hyperinflation and growing poverty, with money transfers from abroad suspended Afghanistan is …
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‘There was never a good time’: was Biden’s Afghanistan speech fair or accurate?
Analysis: US president’s TV address blamed others for the Taliban takeover and tried to distance himself from …
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Defeat amid anxious bureaucracy of western evacuation from Afghanistan
Analysis: The speed of the fall of the country to the Taliban leaves many questions unansweredTaliban enter Ka…
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Kandahar’s fall to the Taliban is a moment of huge significance
Afghanistan’s second city was the capital of the jihadist group until 2001 and has vital strategic and symboli…
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Seven days that shook Afghanistan: how city after city fell to the Taliban
Rout of government forces beginning in city of Zaranj has left country in chaos and western leaders looking on…
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US to send 3,000 additional troops to Afghanistan to aid embassy evacuations
Soldiers to arrive within 48 hours to provide security and support for US embassy personnel in KabulUS and oth…
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Taliban on brink of taking key Afghan city as residents told to flee
Officials confirm all but one district of Lashkar Gah is under hardline Islamists’ control after fierce fighti…
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Delta variant of Covid spreading rapidly and detected in 74 countries
Concerns over impact on poorer countries, while richer governments try different containment measuresCoronavir…
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Leading biologist dampens his ‘smoking gun’ Covid lab leak theory
Nobel laureate David Baltimore says he overstated case, and the origins of the virus are still unknownCoronavi…