Category: Foreign Affairs

UN convenes aid conference for Afghanistan – POLITICO
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The United Nations will hold an international conference to raise humanitarian funds for the Afghan people on September 13, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Saturday. The Taliban-controlled country “faces an imminent humanitarian catastrophe,” Guterres said in a video posted on Twitter. The goal of the ministerial-level conference is “to advocate for more resources so…
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‘Global Britain’ is Brexit’s most enduring and egregious fallacy
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In the immediate aftermath of the 2016 EU referendum, leading conservative politicians underscored their desire for the UK to remain open, inclusive and outward-oriented on the world stage – a ‘global Britain’. Now, five years later, this phrase is still being repeated incessantly, becoming a rallying cry for a conservative-led post-Brexit diplomatic renaissance. Given this,…
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US officials provided the Taliban with the names of Americans and Afghan allies to evacuate
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“Basically, they just put all those Afghans on a kill list,” said a defense official, who like others spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive issue. “It’s just awful and shocking and it makes you feel unclean.” When asked about POLITICO’s reports during a press conference Thursday, President Joe Biden said he was…
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The final failure in Afghanistan is owned by Biden
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David sanger: “Mr. Biden will go down in history, rightly or wrongly, as the president who presided over a protracted and humiliating final act in the American experiment in Afghanistan. After seven months in which his administration seemed to radiate much-needed competence: vaccinating More than 70 percent of the nation’s adults, driving up jobs and…
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