The Third Pole is a multilingual site focused on the Himalayan Mountains, the rivers that originate there and the stories of the peoples who live in its watersheds. Stories on unravelling air pollution in Asia. Songs about loss, longing and rivers in …
Afghan refugees in UK quarantine hotels treated like ‘prisoners’
Afghans evacuated to UK say they have been left in quarantine conditions longer than necessaryAfghans evacuated to the UK feel like prisoners after being left trapped in quarantine conditions longer than necessary, several of them have told the Guardia…
Taliban takeover of Afghanistan will reshape Middle East, official warns
Gulf states are having to reconsider their alliances and especially whether they can still trust the US, says senior sourceThe Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan is a shattering earthquake that will shape the Middle East for many years, a senior Gulf of…
Pen Farthing ‘so happy’ after Afghan staff left behind escape to Pakistan
Former Royal marine says campaign to get workers and animals from the Nowzad shelter out of the country ‘complete success’Former Royal marine Pen Farthing has said he is “so bloody happy” that his staff who worked at an animal shelter have made it out…
‘They will kill you’: a future leader of Afghanistan on the price he paid for freedom
Mohammad Zaman Khadimi was forced to make an impossible choice as he fled the Taliban for sanctuary in AustraliaOn an August morning, Mohammad Zaman Khadimi walked out of class and into a world entirely changed.“I heard the news that the Taliban were c…
US drone strike mistakenly targeted Afghan aid worker, investigation finds
Zemari Ahmadi, who died alongside nine others had no connection to terrorism, a New York Times investigation suggestedThe US mistakenly targeted and killed an innocent aid worker for an American company in a drone strike in Afghanistan, the New York Ti…
Pakistan airline to resume commercial flights to Kabul
Pakistan will become first country to restart commercial flights to Afghanistan since Taliban took over countryPakistan International Airlines (PIA) will resume commercial flights next week from Islamabad to Kabul, a spokesperson confirmed, becoming th…
TikTokの若きエコクリエイターとアフガニスタンの少女：SZ Newsletter VOL.99［CLIMATE CRISIS］
9.11から20年の節目となるいま、世界の富裕国とそれ以外との非対称性は、環境危機というグローバルアジェンダを両側から挟むようにして改めて鮮烈に浮かび上がっている。TikTokで活躍する若きエコクリエイターたちの動画と、アフガニスタンの少女の姿は、今後世界のどこかで重なることが果たしてあるのだろうか？ 今週のSZメンバーシップのテーマ「CLIMATE CRISIS」を考える編集長からのニュースレター。
…
‘Tomorrow they will kill me’: Afghan female police officers live in fear of Taliban reprisals
With at least four women, including a pregnant mother, targeted and killed by Taliban fighters, female ex-officers feel abandoned by the worldNegar Masumi, a female police officer with 15 years of experience, was determined not to flee when the Taliban…
The lesson we failed to learn from 9/11: peace is impossible if we don’t talk to our enemies | Jonathan Powell
We should have engaged with the Taliban 20 years ago, but we thought the winner takes all. It undermined our own armed forcesJonathan Powell was Tony Blair’s chief of staff from 1995 to 2007The fall of Kabul 20 years after 9/11 represents not just the …