{"id":35743,"date":"2021-08-23T06:30:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T21:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/22\/johnson-to-urge-biden-to-keep-us-troops-at-kabul-airport-after-31-august"},"modified":"2021-08-23T12:58:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T03:58:32","slug":"johnson-to-urge-biden-to-keep-us-troops-at-kabul-airport-after-31-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35743","title":{"rendered":"Johnson to urge Biden to keep US troops at Kabul airport after 31 August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PM\u2019s request to be made at G7 summit as Taliban increases grip on access to flights<\/p>\n<p>Boris Johnson will lobby Joe Biden at the G7 leaders\u2019 summit, No 10 has said, pleading with him to keep US troops at Kabul airport beyond the end of August, after a weekend of tension between the UK and its closest ally.<\/p>\n<p>With the Taliban tightening their grip at the airport, Downing Street confirmed on Sunday night that the PM would lobby the US president to maintain a presence after 31 August when the leaders hold a virtual meeting on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/22\/johnson-to-urge-biden-to-keep-us-troops-at-kabul-airport-after-31-august\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM\u2019s request to be made at G7 summit as Taliban increases grip on access to flightsBoris Johnson will lobby Joe Biden at the G7 leaders\u2019 summit, No 10 has said, pleading with him to keep US troops at Kabul airport beyond the end of August, after a week&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2453,"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":[46,531,997,950,637,717,939,61,44,52,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-boris-johnson","category-defence-policy","category-dominic-raab","category-g7","category-immigration-and-asylum","category-joe-biden","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-uk-news","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35743","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\/2453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35747,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35743\/revisions\/35747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}