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Visa delays leave UK families with adopted babies stranded in Pakistan

Home Office accused of leaving mothers and traumatised children stranded for months while priority is given to Ukraine refugeesBritish couples who travelled to Pakistan to adopt children have been left stranded after the Home Office told them to expect…

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UK spies who allegedly passed questions to CIA torturers subject to English law, court rules

Abu Zubaydah, tortured at CIA ‘black sites’ in six different countries, has right to sue UK governmentUK intelligence services who allegedly asked the CIA to put questions to a detainee who was being tortured in “black sites” were subject to the law of…

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Britons stranded in Afghanistan call for urgent evacuation help

Group record message for UK officials as visa rules for dependants add to practical difficultiesMore than 60 British nationals who remain stranded in Afghanistan have criticised the government for abandoning them and their families in an increasingly d…

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‘Chaotic’ UK response criticised as Afghan babies wait for milk and donations turned away

Volunteers ‘operating blind’ about refugees’ needs, while hotels left with no staff to distribute aidThe government’s response towards families evacuated from Afghanistan to Britain has been “chaotic and uncoordinated”, hampering volunteers’ efforts to…

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