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Zac Goldsmith: official who stated PM cleared Kabul pet rescue was ‘mistaken’

Foreign Office minister says official wrongly interpreted that Boris Johnson personally authorised airlift of Pen Farthing’s animals

The Guardian - UK

Don’t panic: why Ukraine doesn’t like western talk of imminent attack

Analysis: While Putin’s intentions remain unclear, Kyiv would rather it didn’t get classed as the next Kabul

The Guardian - UK

Claims of PM involvement in Afghan animal airlift ‘absurd’, says minister

A Tory frontbencher acknowledges ‘confusion’ with correspondence indicating the Prime Minister approved the operation

The Independent UK

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Kabul bomber was on a suicide mission to India in 2017

Was deported after CIA tip-off

The Hindu

Soaring pneumonia and starvation is killing thousands of children in Afghanistan

Pneumonia cases are soaring in Afghanistan and killing children unable to access healthcare facilities, leading humanitarian organisation for children Save the Children said on Monday. Since the Taliban takeover last August, unemployment levels have exploded throughout Afghanistan, leaving parents unable to provide for their families. The direct result has been…

France 24

Conversations with God: Afghan evacuees in Philly say faith sustains them amid upheaval

PHILADELPHIA — The American troops shouted over the chaos of the crowds, Ahmad said, telling him to get inside the Kabul airport while he still could.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Afghanistan's Taliban told they can't take their guns to the funfair

Taliban fighters will no longer be allowed to carry their weapons in amusement parks in Afghanistan, the group's spokesman said on Wednesday, in what appeared to be another effort by the country's new rulers to soften their image.

Reuters

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Leaked document reveals Biden’s Afghan failures

The notes shed new light on how the administration was unprepared to evacuate Afghan nationals who'd helped the U.S. against the Taliban.

Axios

Qatar reaches deal with Taliban to resume evacuations: Report

Deal reported by Axios allows biweekly chartered flights and comes as US reportedly seeks to re-up Afghan resettlements.

Al Jazeera

Qatar reaches deal with Taliban to resume evacuations - Axios

Qatar has reached an agreement with the Taliban to resume chartered evacuations out of Kabul airport, the Axios news website reported on Tuesday citing an interview with Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani.

Reuters

Taliban raised on war bring a heavy hand to security role

The Taliban are trying to keep discipline over thousands of young fighters who bring heavy-handed methods of war into their new roles as security forces in Afghanistan

The Independent UK

Flee: inside the film about a Kabul boy who finds happiness, cats and a husband in Denmark

He escaped death, fled across the Baltic, and eventually found love and a new life. Jonas Poher Rasmussen describes how he turned Amin’s often harrowing story into an uplifting, award-winning animation

The Guardian - UK

After Oslo talks, what’s next for Afghanistan?

Analysts say talks between Taliban and US and European officials imply a ‘de facto’ recognition of the Taliban gov’t.

Al Jazeera

Pregnant NZ journalist Charlotte Bellis battling to return home as Afghan health system crumbles

A pregnant New Zealand journalist stranded overseas due to COVID-19 border restrictions is urging the NZ government to find a way to help women like her, saying she went public because her lawyer had represented 30 women who had been through it before.

ABC News

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Reuters

Taliban to reopen public universities, no word on female students

Afghanistan's public universities, closed since the Taliban seized power in August, will reopen in February, the Taliban acting higher education minister said on Sunday, without specifying whether female students would be able to return.

The Independent UK

From Kabul, pregnant reporter fights NZ govt to come home

A pregnant New Zealand reporter has chosen Afghanistan as a temporary base for her uphill fight to return home because of her country's stringent COVID-19 entry rules

The Guardian - UK

Boris Johnson’s chief of staff ‘spent day watching cricket’ just before Kabul fell

Dan Rosenfield watched England v India at Lord’s three days before Taliban forces entered capital, according to reports

The Independent UK

In suburban Kentucky, Afghan refugees make a new life

Some 75,000 Afghan refugees are expected to settle in America in 2022. Photographer Amira Karaoud visits new arrivals finding a fresh start in Bowling Green, Kentucky

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The Independent UK

Animal charity founder denies Boris Johnson intervened in Afghanistan evacuation

Paul Farthing said he had ‘absolutely no dealings with anybody in government’

The Independent UK

Nowzad founder believes Boris Johnson did not intervene in animal evacuation

Paul Farthing said he had ‘absolutely no dealings with anybody in Government’.

The Guardian - UK

Kabul animal airlift: Foreign Office official sorry for misleading MPs

Senior official Sir Philip Barton apologises to foreign affairs committee for denial of correspondence with Boris Johnson

Daily Mirror

Top Foreign Office official apologises for misleading MPs on Afghan animal evacuation

Boris Johnson has been accused of lying over whether he authorised the airlift of cats and dogs from Afghanistan - but he branded claims 'total rhubarb'

Asharq Al-Awsat

Ex-government Workers Mine for Salvation in Afghan Mountains

In the bone-splitting chill of the Afghan mountains, Mohammad Israr Muradi digs through coarse earth spilling from the open mouth of an emerald mine. With an improvised sieve and a few splashes of water, the former police officer scours a slag heap for fragments of the green gemstone, swarmed by…

Daily Mirror

New evidence Boris Johnson 'lied' about animal rescue - just as he slams 'rhubarb' claims

Boris Johnson insisted he 'absolutely [did] not' approve a mission to airlift dogs and workers out of Kabul - but new e-mails revealed by the BBC show officials were relying on No10 for guidance

Daily Record

Boris Johnson says it is 'total rubharb' to claim he was involved in airlift of dogs from Kabul

The Prime Minister has been under pressure about whether he intervened after e-mails emerged showing it was claimed he had authorised flights for animals.

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