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Anna Marie de la Fuente Holding forth at a masterclass she delivered at the San Sebastian Film Festival’s Tabakalera venue on Tuesday Sept.

Editor’s Note: Hollie McKay’s latest special report for Deadline finds the veteran foreign affairs correspondent and Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the ISIS Battlefield author writing from Kabul about the disinformation campaigns across the Taliban-ruled South Asian nation.

Editor’s note: In Hollie McKay’s latest special report for Deadline, the veteran foreign affairs correspondent and Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the ISIS Battlefield author writes from Kabul about the silencing of Afghanistan’s music and musicians as the Taliban consolidates its return to power amidst the U.S. withdrawal.

Kate Middleton thanked those who helped evacuate people in Afghanistan last month during her return to public duties following a summer break Wednesday.

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (aka Kate Middleton) is back to royal duties after a few months away from the spotlight!

Singer-songwriter John Ondrasik of Five For Fighting has released a new song that’s highly critical of the United States’ withdrawal strategy from Afghanistan.  The Grammy-nominated artist penned his new track "Blood On My Hands" shortly after learning of the suicide bombing in Kabul that left 13 U.S.

Sahraa Karimi To Head Stockholm Jury

Editor’s note: In another special report for Deadline, veteran foreign affairs correspondent and Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the ISIS Battlefield author Hollie McKay is back in Kabul to cover the nation’s return to Taliban rule, almost 20 years after American forces ejected the fundamentalist group from power. One in a series of Deadline stories tied to the 20th anniversary of 9/11.

Scottish RAF Sergeant who played a heroic role on the final evacuation flight from Kabul has spoken about the ‘unforgettable’ moment he encountered with an Afghan mother and her baby. Andy Livingstone, from Scotland, has been lauded a hero after pictures emerged of him cradling the baby of an Afghan refugee too exhausted to hold her child.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentAfghan filmmaker Sahra Mani, who is at the Venice Film Festival gap financing market with the documentary “Kabul Melody,” says the lives of more than 150 students of Kabul’s National Institute of Music (ANIM) are at risk after armed Taliban guards shuttered the school and smashed all the musical instruments inside.A few days after the Taliban occupied Kabul “they went to the school and smashed all the instruments,” says Mani who has been making a

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PARIS -- As a filmmaker, Shahrbanoo Sadat watched with fascination as Taliban fighters took over her city and terrified crowds animated the streets.

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Richard E. Grant's wife Joan Washington has sadly died at the age of 71.

Prince William "personally intervened" to get the family of an Afghan officer out of Kabul amid the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan, it has been reported.The 39 year old knew the former cadet from Sandhurst and heard how he was trying to get his family out of the country before the Taliban seized it. It is believed that the Duke of Cambridge asked his equerry, Naval officer Rob Nixon, to make calls on his behalf in order to help.

Prince William has “personally intervened” to help an officer he knew from Sandhurst out of Afghanistan.

Manori Ravindran International EditorPaul Schrader says his movie “The Card Counter,” in which Oscar Isaac plays a former Abu Ghraib interrogator who did jail time for his actions, is “not about redoing history” but rather focusing on one soldier’s memory — a cinematic theme he predicts will recur as U.S.

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Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello is asking for the public's help in assisting female guitar students out of Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover of the capital city, Kabul. Morello penned an open letter calling attention to his friend and musician Lanny Cordola's "Girl with a Guitar" program, which currently has 12 female guitar students ranging in age from 8 to 17 years old who are stuck in Kabul.

Kabul fell to the Taliban on 15 August. McDonald, the MP for Glasgow South, challenged Raab repeatedly to say when he had gone on holiday, but the Foreign Secretary would not respond.

Dominic Raab, the Foreign Secretary, in front of MPs today where he will come under strong criticism for leaving behind both British nationals and Afghans who helped the UK.

Get the latest Scottish politics news sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletterBoris Johnson has resumed his summer break which was interrupted by the fall of Kabul but Downing Street has insisted the Prime Minister is “continuing to work”.As the last British troops left Kabul on Sunday, Boris Johnson left London with his family for Somerset in the west of England .Despite being away from Downing Street No 10 officials insisted he was still at work.The Prime Minister’s Official

Rage Against The Machine‘s Tom Morello has written an open letter asking for help evacuating a number of girls out of Afghanistan following the Taliban’s takeover of the country.As Billboard reports, Morello wrote the letter in support of his friend Lanny Cordola, who runs a music school for girls in Afghanistan through his non-profit Miraculous Love Kids.Six years ago in Kabul, Cordola launched Girl With a Guitar, a program that has taught close to 200 students and recorded collaborations with

The last U.S. military flight left Kabul’s international airport, marking an end to nearly 20 years of occupation in Afghanistan.

Brittany Aldean shared a message of support to U.S. military service members in the wake of the attack in Kabul that left 13 Americans dead last week.  The wife of country singer Jason Aldean is often very outspoken politically on social media.

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Candace Cameron Bure has built a reputation for sunny positivity on social media, but she made a departure with a series of emotional videos to share her sorrow over the horrific situation currently unfolding in Afghanistan.

Kabul Airport, with clouds of black smoke pouring from the scene.It is not clear what the cause of the blast was or who was responsible for it.Pictures and footage circulated on social media show clouds of black smoke in the city.BBC journalist Secunder Kermani took to Twitter to say: "Afghan Health ministry source confirms there’s been another blast at Kabul airport… pictures circulating on social media."Unclear as of yet what the cause of the explosion was, or any casualty figures."Same source

ISIS-K blast earlier this week. US President has vowed to keep up air strikes against the Islamic extremist group whose suicide bombing killed scores of Afghans and 13 American service members.

Cori Shepherd Stern, Oscar-nominated filmmaker and social-change strategist who helped Afghan girls come to school in the U.S., told The New York Times. “These men were quite literally going into the masses and pulling our women to safety, while coordinating with our guy to find them.

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Afghan refugee fleeing to the UK gave birth to a baby girl at 30,000 feet while on an evacuation flight destined for Birmingham.Soman Noori, 26, was travelling on an evacuation flight from Dubai to Birmingham, having previously left Kabul, when she went into labour in airspace over Kuwait, Turkish Airlines said.There was no doctor on board the flight, forcing the Turkish Airlines cabin crew to deliver the baby girl, who has been named Havva by her mother and father, 30-year-old husband Taj Moh

"Real Housewives of New Jersey" alum Rosie Pierri took time out of her day to acknowledge a pair of US soldiers currently serving in Afghanistan. The former reality TV star commented on a Fox News Instagram post highlighting two soldiers who helped an Afghan woman evacuate from Kabul.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe upcoming Venice Film Festival is set to become a focal point for discussion on the crisis underway in Afghanistan and how it is impacting filmmakers and Afghan artists in general as the Taliban take power.As previously reported by Variety, Afghan filmmaker Sahraa Karimi, who is the first woman president of the country’s national film entity Afghan Film –– and made a recent appeal as she escaped from Kabul about the return of Taliban rule and the