Concerns had been raised by guests about the safety of the Metropolitan hotel in Sheffield and its windowsSheffield’s Labour MPs have demanded an independent review into what the Home Office knew about the safety of the hotel where a five-year-old Afgh…
Dominic Raab – the foreign secretary who phones it in | Marina Hyde
Incompetent, negligent, isolated, increasingly disliked – Raab may just be the perfect ambassador for ‘global Britain’Is it possible to appear muscular while making a phone call? It is certainly the look that furiously committed political man Dominic R…
Khalida Popal: ‘The Afghanistan women’s team was built to fight Taliban ideology’
The former national football team captain is calling on sport’s governing bodies to ensure female athletes in Afghanistan are safe“My power is my voice but international governments have real power,” says Khalida Popal, the former Afghanistan women’s t…
The west’s nation-building fantasy is to blame for the mess in Afghanistan | Simon Jenkins
British MPs have turned on Boris Johnson – but what tidy end did they expect from this imperialist experiment?Britain’s MPs this week uttered one long howl of anguish over Afghanistan. Their immediate targets were Joe Biden and Boris Johnson, politicia…
‘Move heaven and earth’: pressure on Biden to speed up visas for Afghans who helped US
Members of Congress warn that those who aided US military are in grave danger as they wait for evacuations and paperworkFor the two decades the US waged war in Afghanistan, hundreds of thousands of Afghans worked with American forces at great risk to t…
Taliban have not changed, says Biden as US military evacuations reach 7,000 – live
Three senators test positive for Covid-19 and urge vaccinationsPresident sits down with ABC News to defend decision to withdrawUSCP: active bomb threat investigation’ occurring at the CapitolPoll: most Americans say Afghanistan war was not worthwhileDe…
Afghan boy, 5, who died in Sheffield hotel fall named as Mohammed Munib Majeedi
Ministers facing serious questions after boy falls from ninth floor of city’s Metropolitan hotelMinisters are facing serious questions after a five-year-old boy whose family had recently fled the Taliban fell to his death from a ninth-floor hotel windo…
Dominic Raab under pressure to quit after delegating ‘rescue call’ for Afghan translators
Foreign secretary’s position ‘untenable’ after claims he made himself unavailable on holiday as Afghanistan fellDominic Raab is facing increasing pressure to resign, including from some of his own party’s MPs, after claims he effectively disappeared fo…
Afghanistan: key questions about the government’s handling of the crisis
Dominic Raab is under pressure after the foreign secretary remained on holiday while the Taliban advanced on KabulDominic Raab has faced questions about his future over his handling of the buildup to the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, including calls…
Nicola Jennings on Johnson and Raab’s Afghanistan platitudes — cartoon
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