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More than 1,000 people fleeing Afghanistan have been accommodated in Manchester hotels as the government scrambles to evacuate people from the crisis-torn country.
For several weeks before the Taliban seized total control of the country this weekend, the town hall had already been working with the Home Office and Foreign Office to place people fleeing to safety in initial quarantine.
It is understood that at
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The presidents of five unions representing journalists are calling on President Joe Biden to support news crews and their families who are trying to flee Afghanistan.
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Perth and Kinross Council has said the region has to take as many desperate Afghan refugees it can in response to the humanitarian crisis in the war-torn nation. Up to 20,000 Afghans could seek asylum in the UK and Perth and Kinross Council’s four political groups have all expressed a willingness to help.
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iOS - Android UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres has warned "hundreds of thousands" of people are fleeing the situation in Afghanistan because of "serious human rights violations". In response to the situation in Afghanistan, a spokesman for SLC told Lanarkshire Live : “South Lanarkshire has a proud record of assisting refugees and our neighbourhoods welcomed dozens of families who fled Syria.
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