月: 2021年8月
President Joe Biden, rejecting criticism of his handling of the chaotic US pullout from Afghanistan, has warned that the operation to evacuate thousands through Kabul airport carries risks, but promised Americans in the country that ‘we will get you ho…
The Taliban takeover has sparked a hurried exodus of people associated with the western intervention in the countryHow many people have been evacuated from Afghanistan?At least 12,000 people have been evacuated via Kabul airport since the start of a tu…
The US and UK say evacuations are gathering pace, but there seems to be little sign of that in KabulThe Kabul airport gates were a path not to escape but to hospital for one Afghan human rights activist this week.A relative was shot in the head in the …
Foreign secretary says need for the call while he was in Crete was ‘quickly overtaken by events’Dominic Raab has confirmed he delegated a phone call with the Afghan foreign minister to a junior, and argued that it was the correct thing to do, in his fi…
Analysis: deep fault lines, especially with Isis, may counter Afghanistan’s propaganda advantage for jihadistsFew doubt that the Taliban victory in Afghanistan will give violent Islamist extremists across the world an historic boost, encouraging them i…
Constitutional monarch names deputy PM in coalition to take over following resignation of Muhyiddin YassinIsmail Sabri Yaakob has been named Malaysia’s prime minister, as a scandal-mired party that previously governed for six decades reclaimed the lead…
During ‘farewell summit’ with Angela Merkel, Russian leader says US-led campaign cannot be called a successVladimir Putin has demanded that countries not interfere in Afghanistan after the fall of Kabul, saying the west “must stop the irresponsible pol…
Evacuees who have worked with EU institutions will arrive in Spain and then be settled in various countriesSpain has offered itself as the EU’s hub to take in Afghans who have collaborated with its institutions over the years, as Germany said there was…
Tens of thousands of foreigners and Afghans who collaborated with US and Nato forces remain stranded in Kabul, as governments grappled with an overwhelming backlog of visas and Taliban checkpoints that were preventing people safely reaching the airport…
How the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan precipitated a political one at the heart of UK governmentOn Thursday last week, the defence secretary, Ben Wallace, had tried to sound composed as he announced a small number of British troops were heading ou…
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‘Godfather of sudoku’ who paved the way for the worldwide boom in number puzzlesMaki Kaji, who has died aged 69 of bile duct cancer, was a Japanese publisher who achieved international recognition as the “godfather of sudoku”. His puzzle magazine Nikol…
Demonstrations shut down Gwadar, where Chinese are blamed for lack of water and electricity and threat to local fishingProtests have erupted in Pakistan’s port city Gwadar against a severe shortage of water and electricity and threats to livelihoods bl…
Fighters tortured Hazara men to death, say witnesses, and relative of journalist killedEvidence of Taliban killings, detentions and intimidation is emerging across Afghanistan, ominously contradicting the hardline Islamist group’s promise earlier this …
Concerns had been raised by guests about safety of Metropolitan hotel in Sheffield and its windowsSheffield’s Labour MPs have demanded an independent review looking into what the Home Office knew about the safety of the hotel where a five-year-old Afgh…