{"id":35353,"date":"2021-08-17T11:31:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T02:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/17\/afghanistan-live-news-us-says-kabul-airport-reopens-as-biden-defends-withdrawal"},"modified":"2021-08-17T23:15:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T14:15:16","slug":"afghanistan-live-news-biden-defends-withdrawal-as-taliban-patrol-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35353","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan live news: Nato chief says Afghan leaders failed to stand up; reports Taliban leader in Kabul for talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/17\/afghanistan-live-news-us-says-kabul-airport-reopens-as-biden-defends-withdrawal?page=with:block-611bbd2a8f089f8318278ca2#block-611bbd2a8f089f8318278ca2\">Jens Stoltenberg blames swift collapse of Afghan forces on leadership failure<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/17\/afghanistan-live-news-us-says-kabul-airport-reopens-as-biden-defends-withdrawal?page=with:block-611b30a08f0826eff3be7425#block-611b30a08f0826eff3be7425\">senior Taliban leader in Kabul for negotiations \u2013 report<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/17\/greater-stability-as-western-forces-help-to-secure-kabul-airport\">\u2018Greater stability\u2019 as western forces help to secure Kabul airport<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/17\/macron-accused-of-pandering-to-far-right-over-afghan-crisis\">Macron accused of pandering to the far right over Afghan crisis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/17\/afghanistan-striking-image-appears-to-show-640-people-fleeing-kabul-in-packed-us-military-plane\">Image appears to show 640 people fleeing Kabul in packed US plan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/17\/the-taliban-leaders-in-line-to-become-de-facto-rulers-of-afghanistan\">Who will run the regime? Taliban leaders in line to rule Afghanistan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/17\/china-will-tread-carefully-in-navigating-the-talibans-return\">Analysis: China will tread carefully in navigating the Taliban\u2019s return<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/16\/afghanistan-kabul-airport-joe-biden-taliban-deaths\">US troops to stay until Americans and eligible Afghans evacuated, says Biden<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2021-08-17T14:13:50.450Z\">3.13pm <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden has authorised up to $500m from an emergency fund to meet \u201cunexpected urgent\u201d refugee needs stemming from the US withdrawal from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/afghanistan\">Afghanistan<\/a>, including for Afghan special immigration visa applicants, the White House said.<\/p>\n<p>The US is preparing to begin evacuating thousands of Afghan SIV applicants who risk retaliation from Taliban militants who have taken over the country, because they worked for the US government.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/17\/afghan-refugees-fund-joe-biden-sets-up\">Biden sets aside $500m to fund \u2018unexpected\u2019 Afghan refugee needs<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2021-08-17T14:10:22.750Z\">3.10pm <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>The<strong> Duke and Duchess of Sussex<\/strong> have shared their heartbreak over the state of the \u201cexceptionally fragile\u201d world, saying they have been left speechless by the situation in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Harry, who fought in the country on two frontline tours with the army, and Meghan also expressed their distress about the earthquake in Haiti and said they were \u201cscared\u201d amid the new Covid variants and continuing global health crisis.<\/p>\n<p>To start, we encourage you to join us in supporting a number of organisations doing critical work. We also urge those in positions of global influence to rapidly advance the humanitarian dialogues that are expected to take place this fall at multilateral gatherings such as the UN general assembly and the G20 leaders\u2019 summit.<\/p>\n<p>As an international community, it is the decisions we make now &#8211; to alleviate suffering among those we know and those we may never meet &#8211; that will prove our humanity.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/17\/afghanistan-live-news-us-says-kabul-airport-reopens-as-biden-defends-withdrawal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jens Stoltenberg blames swift collapse of Afghan forces on leadership failure; senior Taliban leader in Kabul for negotiations \u2013 report\u2018Greater stability\u2019 as western forces help to secure Kabul airportMacron accused of pandering to the far right over A&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35353"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35412,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35353\/revisions\/35412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}