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UN officials: Afghan quake adds to emergencies in country

Senior UN officials say the earthquake in Afghanistan has added another emergency facing the country, which is also confronting its worst drought in 30 years and massive poverty

The Independent UK

U.N. says Taliban interfering with aid, resisting cash plan

Afghanistan's ruling Taliban are resisting efforts by the United Nations to help get humanitarian funding into the country and are interfering in the delivery of aid, U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths told the Security Council on Thursday.

Reuters

Taliban say Afghanistan earthquake rescue efforts almost complete

Health ministry says aid has begun to arrive to the area affected by earthquake that killed at least 1,000 people.

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Afghanistan's earthquake has left this girl with nothing. Can the West help her without funding the Taliban?

A magnitude-6.1 earthquake in remote Afghanistan exacerbates a tricky ethical dilemma for Australia and other like-minded nations: How can they help Afghan people dealing with yet another unimaginable situation without supporting the Taliban directly?

ABC News

Two men from south Wales helped their brother cover up his wife's brutal murder

Zobaidah Salangy's body was found in a shallow grave in a woodland

Wales Online

Pizza shop boss jailed for 18 years for murdering wife at restaurant and dumping her body in woods

‘We will suffer with this for the rest of our lives,’ Zobaidah Salangy’s family says

The Independent UK

Armed Forces interpreter speaks out about fleeing from the Taliban with wife and four children

"I would get a lot of phone calls from people threatening me, saying they knew I'd worked for the British Forces, it was no longer safe for us."

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Taliban's isolation makes Afghan earthquake response harder

A devastating earthquake in eastern Afghanistan, which killed at least 1,000 people and flattened homes in remote villages close to the Pakistani border, poses the biggest challenge yet for the Taliban since they seized power nearly a year ago.

Reuters

‘I dared not look at the faces’: the Afghan man who lost 22 family members in the quake

Karim Nyazai recounts his experiences since the devastating earthquake that struck Afghanistan this week

The Guardian - UK

Germany says it helped 21,000 people get out of Afghanistan

Germany’s foreign minister says the government has got more than 21,000 former local employees and other endangered people out of Afghanistan since the Taliban seized power almost a year ago

The Independent UK

Polio: Where have there been outbreaks recently?

Virus carries ‘continuous risk of international spread,’ WHO says

The Independent UK

Rescuers scramble to reach survivors of Afghanistan earthquake

Rescue and relief teams are struggling to reach survivors of a deadly earthquake that hit Afghanistan’s remote southeast, killing at least 1,000 people and injuring hundreds more even as the country battles multiple humanitarian crises.

Tribune News Service

Afghanistan earthquake: Taliban begs for aid after devastating shake kills over 1,000

The 6.1-magnitude earthquake destroyed at least 2,000 homes and villages have been left flattened, and about 1,500 people were left injured after it struck the province of Paktika on Tuesday night

Daily Mirror

Afghan earthquake survivors dig by hand as rescuers struggle to reach area

Disaster has killed more than 1,000 people and officials say toll could rise

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Evening Standard

Afghanistan earthquake: Taliban appeals for aid as death toll surpasses 1,000

The earthquake is the worst to hit the country in decades

Birmingham Post

Top Civil Service boss to Prime Ministers Theresa May and Boris Johnson to join BAE Systems board

Lord Sedwill was also a British ambassador and NATO representative in Afghanistan

Al Jazeera

Afghanistan earthquake survivors dig by hand as aid is delayed

At least 1,000 people killed by a magnitude 5.9 earthquake in remote, landslide-prone regions of eastern Afghanistan.

ABC News

Australia's Afghan community, devastated by deadly earthquake, mobilises to raise funds

Rescuers are digging through rubble with their hands, and the ripple effects of the disaster are being felt in the community in Australia.

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Los Angeles Times

LZ Granderson: Today's Republican Party is not about 'support the troops' or 'law and order'

Many may know that Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, lost his right eye after he was hit by an IED blast in Afghanistan. What may not be as well known is that he also temporarily lost sight in his left eye. Or that once he regained sight on the left, a…

France 24

Taliban appeal for help as rescuers scramble to reach Afghan quake survivors

Afghan authorities struggled on Thursday to reach a remote area hit by an earthquake that killed some 1,000 people but poor communications and a lack of proper roads hampered their efforts, officials said, as the country's supreme leader pleaded with the international community for help.

WEKU

Survivors dig by hand after Afghanistan quake killing 1,000

The disaster inflicted by the quake heaps more misery on a country where millions face increasing hunger and poverty and the health system has been crumbling since the Taliban retook power last year.

Asharq Al-Awsat

At Least 1,000 Killed in Afghan Quake, with Fear Toll Will Rise

Desperate rescuers battled against the clock Thursday under pouring rain to pull survivors from the rubble after a powerful quake struck a mountainous border region of Afghanistan, killing at least 1,000 people. The 5.9-magnitude quake struck hardest in the rugged east, where people already lead hardscrabble lives in the grip…

Reuters

S.Korea to provide $1 million in humanitarian aid to earthquake-hit Afghanistan

South Korea plans to provide $1 million in humanitarian assistance to victims of an earthquake in Afghanistan that killed 1,000 people, Seoul's foreign ministry said on Thursday.

ABC News

What do we know about the Afghanistan earthquake and why is the region so vulnerable?

More than 1,000 people have been killed after a powerful 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck in Afghanistan on Wednesday. Here's what we know about the disaster, the region's vulnerability and the Taliban's response.

Reuters

Japan to provide necessary aid for Afghanistan after earthquake - govt spokesperson

The Japanese government plans to provide assistance to Afghanistan, a government spokesperson said on Thursday, after an earthquake there killed at least 1,000 people.

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