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Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentAfghan filmmaker Sahraa Karimi, who was at the Venice Film Festival in 2019 with female-centric drama “Hava, Maryam, Ayesha,” will soon be traveling back to the fest to raise awareness about the plight of filmmakers in her country after the Taliban’s reclamation of power.Karimi is also head of state-run company Afghan Film –– the first woman to head the org –– and managed to flee her country shortly after Kabul fell into the Taliban’s grip.

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“So America is no longer the world’s policeman, we’re the world’s student loan officer,” said Bill Maher tonight of Joe Biden’s pledge to “hunt you down and make you pay” the perpetrators of yesterday’s horrific attack outside Kabul Airport.

Washington Post, the Islamic extremist group’s presence has resulted in heightened fear of repercussions for Afghans of the Christian faith. Beck, who was in the Middle East for the proceedings, shared a photo of the last plane of refugees to depart prior to the ISIS suicide bombing of the Kabul Airport on Thursday, writing that next he would be boarding a plane to “help prepare their new home(s) far from the Taliban and ISIS.” “We will not forget those left behind.

story Thursday about neo-Nazis who serve in the Marines — the same day officials announced that American service members were killed in an attack in Afghanistan.

proclamation that flags will be at half-staff to honor victims of the attack through Monday, August 31, 2021.

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story about neo-Nazis who serve in the Marines. The tweet was deleted after backlash.While it was up, the tweet said, “While many vets are being outed as far-right extremist, one branch keeps popping up when it comes to neo-Nazis: the United States Marine Corps.” The Vice News account also tweeted the story Thursday, but that tweet has not been deleted.

Joe Biden has set a Tuesday deadline to withdraw American forces.The Pulitzer Board's citation came a day after a suicide attack at the Kabul airport killed well over 100 Afghans and 13 U.S.

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people flee the Taliban after closing the main processing site, near where the bombs were detonated on Thursday.

President Joe Biden, facing the worst day of his presidency, mourned the loss of U.S. servicemen and civilians killed in a deadly attack outside the Kabul airport, but he vowed that the Afghanistan evacuation mission would continue.

Meghan McCain’s time on “The View” may be done but that doesn’t mean her political hot takes are.

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Nicola Sturgeon has sent her sympathies to the people of Afghanistan after a series of explosions left scores of people dead at Kabul airport.Around 60 civilians have reportedly died and 140 more were injured when several blasts rocked the centre of the ongoing humanitarian crisis earlier today.Officials say that around 12 US troops - who were part of efforts to evacuate Afghans amid the recent Taliban takeover - are believed to be among the numbers of people killed in the incident.The First

Networks mobilized on Thursday to cover what was described as a “complex” attack outside the Kabul airport, showing pictures and video of the carnage that killed a number of U.S. service members and left scores of others injured.

debunked claim that the U.S.

Afghanistan this afternoon, the Pentagon has announced.The Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby took to Twitter to announce the news and said there was an "unknown number of casualties".It comes after the UK armed forces minister James Heappey said there was "very credible reporting" that an affiliate of the so-called Islamic State in Afghanistan, Isis-K, could carry out an attack in "hours" as people attempt to flee the Taliban-run country.

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Claudia Eller Co-Editor-in-ChiefI know there’s a lot going on in Hollywood right now, but to me the most vital and urgent news is unfolding in Afghanistan, where women and journalists are under siege, fighting for their rights and their lives with the Taliban again ruling the nation.In the immediate aftermath of the extremists reclaiming the capital of Kabul on Aug.

Players from Afghanistan women’s national soccer team had an “important victory” on Tuesday when they were among a group of more than 75 people evacuated on a flight from Kabul.

Get the latest Scottish politics news sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletterUS President Joe Biden has decided not to extend his August 31 deadline for the US-led evacuation from Kabul despite an appeal by Boris Johnson and other G7 leaders.The Prime Minister, who struggled to get a phone call with the President as the Afghan crisis unfolded, failed at an emergency meeting of the G7 to change Biden’s mind.Speaking after an emergency meeting of the G7, Johnson revealed the

Ricky Gervais has spoken out against critics of the Operation Ark campaign to save animals from Afghanistan.Since the Taliban reclaimed control of Afghanistan earlier this month, Paul “Pen” Farthing has launched a fundraiser titled Operation Ark to transport staff and 200 animals (140 dogs, 60 cats) from his animal rescue organisation, Nowzad, in Kabul out of the country to the UK in a private plane.Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has stated that, while Farthing and his workforce have been offered

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Linda Norgrove Foundation has issued a public appeal for Boris Johnson to get two of its staff members, who are sisters, out of the Taliban-controlled capital. The two women are in hiding in the city with their families and despite cross-party pressure from MPs over the past week the UK Foreign Office has not contacted them for evacuation.

an Blackford MP, the SNP Westminster leader, said that it would be “unacceptable” for parliament to remain in recess for another fortnight, while UK armed forces and personnel were putting their lives on the line at Kabul. Johnson faced a hostile reception from across a packed House of Commons last week when MPs were recalled for a one-off session to debate the deteriorating situation at Kabul airport.

Australia, on a mission: to revive music in the country of his birth.The school he founded was a unique experiment in inclusiveness for the war-ravaged nation — with orphans and street kids in the student body, it sought to bring a measure of joy back to Kabul.

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Prime Minister to phone Biden to extend the exit date as former PM Tony Blair said the UK had a “moral obligation” to stay on and complete the evacuation.

Boris Johnson 's permission to carry on sunbathing as Kabul fell. The bungling Foreign Secretary was reportedly told by a senior Downing Street official to head back from his Crete beach holiday on Friday, August 13, two days before the Taliban entered Kabul.