日: 2021年8月21日
The country has been lulled into a false sense of security but the only way we’ll get through this is if we are constantly vigilantMy Kiwi friends ask, somewhat jokingly, how I’m finding my first New Zealand level 4. I answer, also somewhat jokingly, t…
Jacinda Ardern has led a global Covid success story, but other countries have come unstuck when facing the Delta variantSee all our coronavirus coverageAs epidemiologist Michael Baker scrolled through a growing list of New Zealand’s Covid-exposed locat…
As Fiji battles to contain the coronavirus, pregnant women are having to give birth in isolationFor 34-year-old Jane, being told she had tested positive for Covid-19 just a few days before giving birth was an experience she would never forget.“There we…
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…