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Macron says France is protecting EU delegate in Afghanistan
PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday France was currently protecting the European Union delegate in Afghanistan...
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Britain asks: Is America back or has it turned its back?
By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - The humiliation of the lightning Taliban takeover in Afghanistan after a 20-year war that...
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UK indicates Afghanistan sanctions possible
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will use all the means it has at its disposal to hold the Taliban to account...
Read moreSwiss development agency workers escape Afghanistan on U.S. flight
ZURICH (Reuters) -Switzerland's last three development agency workers have been airlifted from Afghanistan on a U.S. military plane, the foreign...
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Short on vaccines, Thailand seeks to borrow from Bhutan
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand, a regional manufacturer of AstraZeneca's coronavirus shots, is seeking to borrow 150,000 doses of the same...
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UK plans to evacuate hundreds from Afghanistan each day – PM’s spokesman
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will evacuate hundreds of British nationals and eligible Afghan nationals every day, and flights out of...
Read moreSeveral dozen French nationals to be repatriated from Afghanistan
PARIS (Reuters) - Several dozen French citizens are to be repatriated by plane from Afghanistan, French Armed Forces minister Florence...
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Afghanistan aviation authority advises transit aircraft to reroute
By Jamie Freed (Reuters) -The Afghanistan Civil Aviation Authority (ACAA) said on Monday that Kabul airspace had been released to...
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Emergency vaccine summit needed to help Africa, says UK’s ex-PM Brown
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S., British and Italian leaders must hold an emergency summit before the U.N. General Assembly to end...
Read moreU.S. State Department says all embassy personnel at Kabul airport
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department said late Sunday that all American embassy personnel in Kabul had been safely...
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More than 60 countries say Afghans, others must be allowed to leave Afghanistan
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -More than 60 countries issued a joint statement saying Afghans and international citizens who want...
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Britain says Taliban should not be recognised as Afghan government
LONDON (Reuters) - Nobody should bilaterally recognise the Taliban as the government of Afghanistan, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said...
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Deep concern over Afghanistan’s future, violence must end – UK’s Raab
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's foreign minister Dominic Raab on Sunday said he was deeply concerned about the future of Afghanistan...
Read moreUK parliament to be recalled next week to discuss Afghanistan – source
LONDON (Reuters) - The British parliament will be recalled from its summer recess next week to discuss the situation in...
Read moreAustria plans aid conference for Afghanistan’s neighbours
ZURICH (Reuters) - Austria plans to hold an aid conference at the end of this month or in early September...
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Afghan government seeks to hold last strongholds as Taliban extend capture of cities
KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban fighters captured the major city of Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, sending Afghan forces fleeing,...
Read moreTaliban have started entering Kabul from all sides – Afghan interior ministry
KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban have begun entering the Afghan capital Kabul from all sides, the Afghan interior ministry said...
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Taliban surge exposes failure of U.S. efforts to build Afghan army
By Jonathan Landay and Idrees Ali KABUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The rout of Afghan forces as Taliban fighters take one provincial...
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BBC reporter says Russia told her never to return, Moscow denies
MOSCOW (Reuters) -A BBC journalist said on Saturday Russia was expelling her and had told her she could never return,...
Read moreIn rare British mass shooting, gunman kills five, including 3-year-old girl
By Natalie Thomas PLYMOUTH, England (Reuters) -A man shot dead five people, including a 3-year-old girl, in violence that police...
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