{"id":35988,"date":"2021-08-27T16:23:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T07:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/27\/uk-minister-not-everyone-out-kabul-rescue-final-hours-afghanistan"},"modified":"2021-08-27T16:23:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T07:23:24","slug":"uk-evacuation-from-kabul-to-end-in-a-matter-of-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35988","title":{"rendered":"UK evacuation from Kabul to end in \u2018a matter of hours\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defence secretary says up to 1,100 eligible Afghans to be left behind, as UK stops taking people into Kabul airport<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/27\/afghanistan-taliban-live-news-kabul-airport-attack-bomb-explosion-civilians-us-marines-killed-abbey-gate-is-islamic-state-biden-vows-revenge-latest-updates\">Afghanistan: live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The UK has stopped taking people into Kabul airport to remove them from Afghanistan, the defence secretary, Ben Wallace has said, and the evacuation process will end in \u201ca matter of hours\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Accepting that there would be Afghan translators or others who worked with UK forces who would not get out, Wallace said these people would be advised to seek access to third countries or offered advice on \u201chow they can look after themselves\u201d under Taliban rule.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/27\/uk-minister-not-everyone-out-kabul-rescue-final-hours-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defence secretary says up to 1,100 eligible Afghans to be left behind, as UK stops taking people into Kabul airportAfghanistan: live updatesThe UK has stopped taking people into Kabul airport to remove them from Afghanistan, the defence secretary, Ben &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1457,"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":[46,1808,319,4,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-ben-wallace","category-foreign-policy","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-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\/35988","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\/1457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35989,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35988\/revisions\/35989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}