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Afghan refugee's joy at meeting NI pal who helped him escape Taliban

Former RIR soldier from Derry helped old friend from Afghanistan make it to UK

Belfast Live

UN Food Agency: $800M Urgently Needed for Afghanistan

The UN food agency said Monday it urgently needs $800 million for the next six months to help Afghanistan, which is at the highest risk of famine in a quarter of a century. Aid agencies have been providing food, education and health care support to Afghans in the wake of…

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN food agency says $800 million urgently needed for Afghanistan, warns of ‘catastrophic hunger’

The U.N. food agency said Monday it urgently needs $800 million for the next six months to help Afghanistan, which is at the highest risk of famine in a quarter of a century.

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Taliban ban restaurant gardens for families, women in Herat

The Taliban have banned families and women from restaurants with gardens or green spaces in Afghanistan’s northwestern Herat province

The Independent UK

UN food agency: $800m urgently needed for Afghanistan

The U.N. food agency says it urgently needs $800 million for the next six months to help Afghans, with the country at the highest risk of famine in a quarter of a century

The Independent UK

Dumfries and Galloway councillor shocked at racist message after speech on Afghan refugees

Dougie Campbell, a former volunteer with the Scottish Refugee Council, helped secure a commitment 18 months ago for Dumfries and Galloway to resettle 20 families who were fleeing the Taliban in Afghanistan

Daily Record

The Observer view on Afghanistan: withdrawal should be a cause for lasting shame in Britain and the US

Governments on both sides of the Atlantic are still failing to take responsibility for abandoning the Afghan people to the Taliban

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Public demands more help for Afghan heroes as mass rejections under discredited schemes revealed

Exclusive: Five times as many people rejected for Afghan resettlement scheme as are accepted

The Independent UK

Republicans furious at Biden’s Afghanistan review, Democrats mum

A review released by the White House largely blamed former President Trump for chaotic US pullout from Afghanistan.

Al Jazeera

Jeffrey Donaldson rejects suggestion political vacuum to blame for dissident threat

“I remember during one sitting of the Assembly they murdered two soldiers in Co Antrim as they were preparing for deployment to Afghanistan"

Belfast Live

Afghan women-run radio resumes broadcasts after shutdown

A women-run radio station in northeastern Afghanistan has resumed its broadcasts, after officials shut it down for a week for playing music during the holy month of Ramadan

The Independent UK

Biden review of Afghanistan withdrawal sees need for better evacuation plans

WASHINGTON — The White House acknowledged that the tumultuous Afghanistan withdrawal underscored the need to better plan and more quickly implement evacuations from conflict zones in an after-action report, even as aides sought to put much of the blame on former President Donald Trump.

Tribune News Service

Biden administration reviews chaotic US withdrawal from Afghan, blaming predecessor Donald Trump

President Joe Biden's administration lays blame on his predecessor, Donald Trump, for the deadly and chaotic 2021 withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan that brought about some of the darkest moments of Mr Biden's presidency.

ABC News

Trump lashes out at ‘moron’ Biden after White House blames him for Afghanistan chaos

Furious ex-president responds on Truth Social in response to report eviscerating his handling of the withdrawal

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UN: 3,300 Afghan staff stay home over Taliban ban on women

The United Nations says the 3,330 Afghan men and women it employs stayed home for a second day to protest the Taliban’s ban on U.N. female staff working in the country, as it continued to press for the decision to be reversed

The Independent UK

John Kirby has heated exchange with Fox’s Peter Doocy over whether Biden is ‘proud’ of Afghan withdrawal

“Proud of the fact that new how have about 100,000 Afghans, our former allies and partners, living in this country and working toward citizenship?” Mr Kirby said. “You bet.”

ABC News

US Supreme Court refuses transgender athlete ban, French protests continue over retirement age change, Italian artist creates giant Pablo Picasso portrait — as it happened

The news Australia is searching for, and all the news that happened while you snoozed: This is The Loop, your quick catch-up for this morning's stories as they happen.

Axios

U.S. admits Afghanistan evacuation should have begun sooner

The Biden administration also placed blame on Trump.

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Al Jazeera

Biden administration defends Afghanistan withdrawal, blames Trump

White House says while Joe Biden wanted to end war, lack of planning by Donald Trump ‘severely constrained’ options.

Reuters

Biden Afghanistan report mostly blames Trump for chaotic US withdrawal

(This April 6 story has been corrected to say that 124,000, not 100,000, people were flown out of Kabul in paragraph 18)

The Independent UK

Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal plan ‘severely constrained by conditions’ set by Trump, review says

The White House review blames much of the chaos of 2021 exit on Trump administration

WEKU

A Biden administration review of the Afghanistan withdrawal blames Trump

The review blames the "conditions created by [President Biden's] predecessor" for the way the U.S. ended its more-than-two-decade-long military presence in Afghanistan.

The Independent UK

Biden review of chaotic Afghan withdrawal blames Trump

An interagency review led by the National Security Council of the chaotic 2021 withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan largely lays the blame on former President Donald Trump, saying President Joe Biden was “severely constrained” by the decisions of his predecessor

Asharq Al-Awsat

Afghanistan's Taliban Move Spokesman's Office to Kandahar

The main spokesman for Afghanistan's Taliban administration will move his office from the capital to the southern city of Kandahar, the information ministry said, a sign of the growing importance of the region that is home to its supreme leader. The province of Kandahar is the historical birthplace of the…

The Guardian - UK

‘This is the death pit’: Adam Ferguson’s stark and brutal photos of Australia’s outback

After assignments in Afghanistan and the US-Mexico border, the photojournalist has turned his lens on his own nation for works that contrast romantic ideas of the Australian interior with the stark realities of life there

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