{"id":35809,"date":"2021-08-24T11:17:55","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T02:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/24\/afghanistan-live-news-taliban-kabul-us-withdrawal-joe-biden-germany-airport-plane-flights-evacuation"},"modified":"2021-08-24T20:29:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T11:29:45","slug":"afghanistan-live-news-biden-expected-to-decide-on-withdrawal-extension-soon-as-leaders-prepare-for-g7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35809","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan live news: UK defence secretary says it is \u2018unlikely\u2019 evacuation of Kabul will be extended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/24\/afghanistan-live-news-taliban-kabul-us-withdrawal-joe-biden-germany-airport-plane-flights-evacuation?page=with:block-612492768f08cc0d8b007d2f#block-612492768f08cc0d8b007d2f\">Extension to Kabul evacuation deadline \u2018unlikely\u2019 says UK defence secretary<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/24\/afghanistan-live-news-taliban-kabul-us-withdrawal-joe-biden-germany-airport-plane-flights-evacuation?page=with:block-612422578f08f26e05240a76#block-612422578f08f26e05240a76\">Biden decision expected soon to give Pentagon time to prepare<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/24\/afghanistan-live-news-taliban-kabul-us-withdrawal-joe-biden-germany-airport-plane-flights-evacuation?page=with:block-61242ba28f08cc0d8b007916#block-61242ba28f08cc0d8b007916\">Taliban warn of \u2018consequences\u2019 if deadline extended<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/24\/g7-leaders-to-seek-unity-on-taliban-as-deadline-for-afghanistan-evacuation-looms\">G7 leaders to seek unity on Taliban as deadline looms<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/23\/uk-scrambles-to-complete-airlift-out-of-kabul-after-warning-about-taliban\">UK scrambles to complete Kabul airlift after warning about Taliban<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/aug\/23\/afghanistan-could-start-to-run-out-of-food-by-september-un-warns\">Afghanistan could start to run out of food by September, UN warns<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/23\/afghan-guard-killed-in-kabul-airport-gun-battle\">US and allies will face \u2018consequences\u2019 if troops stay past deadline \u2013 Taliban<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/23\/afghanistan-what-does-each-nation-hope-to-get-out-of-the-g7-meeting\">Analysis: what does each nation hope to get out of G7 meeting?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/23\/woman-effort-to-save-relatives-afghanistan-afghan-diaspora\">\u2018So scared\u2019: woman tells of frantic efforts to save relatives in Afghanistan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2021-08-24T11:21:53.605Z\">12.21pm <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>The EU has evacuated all its staff and their families from Afghanistan, apart from some officials working at Kabul airport, a spokesperson for the European Commission has said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the staff who needed to be evacuated have been evacuated,\u201d he told journalists in Brussels. \u201cWe still have a core presence at the airport in order to manage what needs to managed, but the staff of the EU delegation and their families have all been evacuated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2021-08-24T11:19:03.184Z\">12.19pm <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>Ahead of this afternoon\u2019s emergency G7 meeting, the Guardian\u2019s diplomatic editor, Patrick Wintour, has this analysis on the concerns each country is likely to bring to the table.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/23\/afghanistan-what-does-each-nation-hope-to-get-out-of-the-g7-meeting\">Afghanistan: what does each nation hope to get out of the G7 meeting?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/24\/afghanistan-live-news-taliban-kabul-us-withdrawal-joe-biden-germany-airport-plane-flights-evacuation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extension to Kabul evacuation deadline \u2018unlikely\u2019 says UK defence secretary; Biden decision expected soon to give Pentagon time to prepare; Taliban warn of \u2018consequences\u2019 if deadline extendedG7 leaders to seek unity on Taliban as deadline loomsUK scram&#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":[46,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","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\/35809","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=35809"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35830,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35809\/revisions\/35830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}