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Almost 1,000 Afghans who helped UK armed forces still to be relocated, investigation finds

The scheme was launched in April 2021 in order to help those who helped the armed forces flee the country

Evening Standard

The army veteran who became a 'lieutenant' for a drugs gang is caught in £3million cocaine and heroin bust... but ordered to pay back just £11

Roy Evans saw action in several tours including in Afghanistan and is now serving a 20 year prison sentence

Manchester Evening News

Number of imprisoned veterans concerns former defense chiefs

Two former Iraq and Afghanistan War-era defense secretaries are recommending that the government consider new ways to ensure that military service is taken into account when courts prosecute former service members

The Independent UK

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Wife of man locked up by Taliban fears for his life as he languishes in jail

Mortaza Behboudi has been held in Afghanistan since January 7, two days after he arrived in his native Afghanistan on a reporting trip and his wife shares to The Mirror concerns on his welfare

Daily Mirror

Pakistan crackdown on Afghan refugees leaves ‘four dead’ and thousands in cells

Asylum seekers in Karachi tell of terror of being sent back to the Taliban and despair at being shackled and held in Pakistani jails

The Guardian - UK

Spike in Afghan-produced methamphetamine being imported by bikie gangs into NSW

The Australian Federal Police say there has been an increase in shipments of the drug known as ice from Afghanistan since the Taliban took over in 2021.

ABC News

Relatives of shipwreck victims travel to Italy to pay their respects

Coffins of those who died laid out in sports hall in Crotone, Calabria, as body of another child is found

The Guardian - UK

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Swiss-based trust holds second meeting to discuss plans for Afghan funds -trustee

The board of the Swiss-based trust fund managing some $3.5 billion in frozen Afghan central bank assets met for a second time last month, one of its trustees said, and discussed options for disbursing funds in line with achieving monetary stability.

Reuters

Courteney Cox responds to Prince Harry's memoir claims he took magic mushrooms at her house

Self-confessed 'Friends fanatic' Harry took comfort in the sitcom while navigating panic attacks after completing his second tour of Afghanistan a decade ago.

Daily Record

80 Afghan citizens dead in Italian shipwreck - Taliban foreign ministry

Afghanistan's Taliban-led foreign ministry said on Tuesday that 80 Afghan citizens, including children, had died in Sunday's shipwreck off the southern coast of Italy.

Reuters

ADF taking too long to enact reforms after Afghanistan war crimes inquiry, watchdog warns

Exclusive: Report reveals oversight panel appealed to chief of ADF and chief of army to act with ‘a sense of urgency’

The Guardian - AU

Fabiola Santiago: Florida can’t run without immigrant labor, so good luck with your crackdown, Gov. DeSantis

A few years ago, my neighbors and I hired a young American war veteran, back from Afghanistan and starting his own business, to install a new wooden fence.

Miami Herald

Taliban: 2 senior IS members killed in Afghanistan

Two senior regional members of the Islamic State group have been killed in Afghanistan in recent weeks during separate raids in Kabul

The Independent UK

Will China’s latest investment in Afghanistan actually work?

While a deal to extract oil has raised hopes in the war-torn nation, experts warn of China’s sketchy record.

Al Jazeera

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As Republicans start investigating Biden, the White House war room is ready to fight

House Republicans are investigating everything from the Biden administration's withdrawal from Afghanistan to the business dealings of the president's son. Here's how the White House is gearing up.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Taliban Forces Kill 2 ISIS Members in Kabul Raid

Taliban security forces killed two militants from the ISIS group and detained a third in an overnight raid in the Afghan capital of Kabul, the spokesman for the Taliban government said Monday. The regional affiliate of the ISIS group — known as the ISIS in Khorasan Province — is a…

Reuters

Islamist militants have Pakistan's police in their crosshairs

Atop a police outpost in northwest Pakistan, Faizanullah Khan stands behind a stack of sandbags and peers through the sight of an anti-aircraft gun, scanning the terrain along the unofficial boundary with the country's restive former tribal areas.

Al Jazeera

‘Books they love’: A Kabul graveyard library for two schoolgirls

In Taliban’s Afghanistan, Hazara cousins, both blast victims who loved to read, inspire a library – and new readers.

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Daily Mirror

At least 60 migrants including newborn dead after boat falls apart off coast of Italy

WARNING: DISTRESSING IMAGES Around 30 bodies were seen floating in the rough seas off the southern coast of Italy this morning, with rescue officials saying they expect the death toll to rise through the day. The victims, who were from Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan, included a number of children, officials…

Daily Mirror

War hero badly hurt in Afghanistan to climb Everest - so he can propose to wife again

Veteran Martyn Compton, who's friends with Prince Harry, suffered severe burns to 75% of his body in a Taliban attack and will climb Everest to propose to his wife on their 15th anniversary

Salon

War and the battle for young minds

Our culture's endless, hypnotic obsession with war and violence has hidden costs — especially for our children

The Independent UK

Seattle Opera puts story of Afghan women center stage

An opera based on the popular novel “A Thousand Splendid Suns," which is set in Afghanistan, is making its world debut in Seattle

The Independent UK

She put Taliban members behind bars for their crimes. Now she’s in fear for her life – and the UK won’t help

Exclusive: Afghan judge, Yousa, has had death threats, been shot at and is a Taliban target after putting many behind bars. She is now ‘stateless’ in Pakistan and the UK government won’t help, as Maya Oppenheim reports

Nottingham Post

Family of soldier killed in Afghanistan ‘humbled’ by plans to name Notts street in his honour

Mark Sheldon, Rifleman Sheldon’s father, said the renaming will give his family, friends and ex-servicemen another way to remember him.

The Independent UK

Trade resumes as Pakistan, Afghanistan reopen Torkham border

Officials say the normal trade and movement of people between Pakistan and Afghanistan has fully resumed after the two sides reopened a key border crossing that was shut down a week ago by Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers

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