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Boris Johnson 'did intervene' to prioritise animals in Afghanistan airlift

A second Foreign Office whistleblower has come forward to back up claims that Boris Johnson intervened to have rescue animals airlifted out of Kabul while Afghans fleeing the Taliban struggled to get onto aircraft.

Daily Record

Second whistleblower says decision to evacuate Afghan animals did come from PM

Boris Johnson previously said it was “complete nonsense” to suggest he had been involved.

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson DID order Afghan animal rescue and officials 'must have' lied, says whistleblower

Josie Stewart, the Head of Illicit Finance in the FCDO, said she will likely lose her job after stepping forward to contradict Boris Johnson and senior officials over the Nowzad animal charity rescue from Kabul last summer

Daily Mirror

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Boris Johnson gave order to evacuate Pen Farthing animals from Afghanistan, says new whistleblower

Official also alleges top civil servants lied to MPs about decision

The Independent UK

How the death of 'the most selfless person' led to a life-changing venture

On what would have been his 25th birthday, Najeeb Rafee was taken off life support after an accident in a Canberra river. Now, his friends are honouring his legacy through a refugee and migrant swim school.

ABC News

Child labour, underage marriage and babies sold as Afghan parents face 'excruciating choices'

In a desperate attempt to feed their five other children, Nosheen and Aziz decide to sell their unborn child, as a failing economy and soaring food prices drives thousands of Afghan parents to make "desperate, life-altering decisions".

ABC News

Taliban cancel public holiday for Nowruz but say celebrations allowed

Afghanistan's Taliban administration said there would be no public holiday for the Persian New Year this week, but said they would not stop people from celebrating the festival.

Reuters

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Family’s MP says Johnson’s ‘poor grasp’ of Zaghari-Ratcliffe case led to errors

Writing in the Observer, Tulip Siddiq accuses Foreign Office of callous behaviour, as calls grow for full investigation

The Guardian - UK

Afghanistan’s former finance minister is now Uber driver in Washington DC

Washington Post rides with Khalid Payenda, who left for the US before the fall of Kabul

The Guardian - US

Afghanistan world’s unhappiest country, even before Taliban

It is according to a so-called world happiness report released ahead of the UN-designated International Day of Happiness

The Independent UK

Finding solace through helping a TV show understand war

When Associated Press journalist and Marine Corps veteran James LaPorta agreed to advise the NBC-TV show “This Is Us” about depicting the military authentically, he found more than he'd bargained for

The Independent UK

Ketanji Brown Jackson's Guantanamo clients an issue for GOP

President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee will face sharp questions from Republican lawmakers this coming week about the work she did as a public defender representing four Guantanamo Bay detainees

The Independent UK

Bombed out: Why we keep making war

War is brand new every time it happens, and it's one of our oldest ideas. We claim to hate it, but it's part of us

Salon

The response to Ukraine is laudable. But as a British Afghan, I’m a little jealous

Seven months since Kabul’s fall, my family are pleading for help. Has the world forgotten this crisis?, says journalist and documentary maker Nelufar Hedayat

The Guardian - UK

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The Independent UK

British girl, 8, stranded in Afghanistan while parents are in UK as ministers show ‘indifference’

Exclusive: Ministers told to act urgently to get child out of Kabul as situation ‘getting worse day by day’

Tribune News Service

Tesla: White workers tormented Black war-blast victim with rocket-warning sounds, suit claims

A Black former quality manager for electric car maker Tesla — who says he previously worked as a military contractor and was traumatized after serious blast injuries in Afghanistan — is claiming in a lawsuit that White co-workers tormented him with ringtones set to sound like incoming-rocket warnings, among other…

Al Jazeera

Taliban release three Afghan journalists after media crackdown

TOLOnews staffers were arrested after the channel broadcast a report on the Taliban’s ban on foreign drama series.

ABC News

Off-the-record conversations heard at Ben Roberts-Smith trial offer rare insight into origins of defamation case

As the Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial entered a seventh week for this year, the Federal Court heard off-the-record conversations from an SAS soldier revealed as a key source for two journalists.

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The Hindu

Helping Afghanistan: On the UN mission in Afghanistan

The world must save Afghans from poverty, while pressuring the Taliban to end oppression

The Independent UK

UN food agency official alarmed by Afghan food, fuel prices

An official with the U.N. food agency says that with Russia’s war in Ukraine taking an increasing toll on the global economy, the ripples of that conflict will further increase food and fuel prices in the desperately poor Afghanistan

The Independent UK

Harry praises the ‘amazing’ efforts of Ukrainian staff from landmine charity

Founded in Afghanistan in 1988, the Halo Trust employs 10,000 people in 28 countries and territories either at war or recovering from conflict.

The Independent UK

His bus has been shot and blown up but this US veteran is still crossing Ukraine, saving lives

EXCLUSIVE: Project Dynamo’s cofounder Bryan Stern tells Rachel Sharp about both the heartbreaking goodbyes and the emotional reunions as he carries out dangerous rescue missions to evacuate people out of Ukraine

The Hindu

Admission of foreign students picking up in University of Mysore

148 joined this year, including 90 from Afghanistan

The Independent UK

Taliban detain journalists over report on TV show censoring

An Afghan journalist says that Taliban intelligence men came in the night to arrest three staff of TOLO TV, one of Afghanistan’s largest television stations

Salon

A refugee's anonymity through animation

Jonas Poher Rasmussen spoke to Salon about his Oscar-nominated documentary pushing cinematic narrative boundaries

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