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27.08.2021 - 20:40 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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Two British adults and the child of a British national have been confirmed to be among those killed in the Kabul airport attack.
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab confirmed the deaths on Friday and said a further two people were injured by the blast in the Afghanistan capital.
US officials originally suspected two attacks had taken place at Kabul airport on Thursday, however they now believe it was one.
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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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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.
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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.
proclamation that flags will be at half-staff to honor victims of the attack through Monday, August 31, 2021.
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people flee the Taliban after closing the main processing site, near where the bombs were detonated on Thursday.
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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.
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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