Category: Afghanistan

The secret Afghan women’s book club defying the Taliban to read Orwell

Banned from education, a clandestine reading circle meets every week to pour over novels by Abbas Maroufi, Zoya Pirzad and Ernest HemingwayFour young women sit together, waiting for the phone to ring. When the call finally...

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Starmer rebukes Trump over ‘frankly appalling’ remarks on Nato troops in Afghanistan

PM joins veterans in condemning claim that troops avoided frontlines and suggests US president should apologiseKeir Starmer has issued an unprecedented rebuke to Donald Trump for his “insulting and frankly appalling”...

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Trump’s Nato claims ‘insulting and frankly appalling’, says Starmer – UK politics live

President’s assertion that Nato troops were not on the front line in Afghanistan has sparked widespread angerKeir Starmer’s allies have launched a “Stop Andy Burnham” campaign to prevent the Labour mayor...

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White House declines to apologise for Trump’s claims about Nato troops in Afghanistan – UK politics live

President’s assertion that Nato troops were not on the front line has sparked widespread angerKeir Starmer’s allies have launched a “Stop Andy Burnham” campaign to prevent the Labour mayor from returning...

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Starmer urged to deliver public rebuke to Trump over slur about UK’s role in Afghanistan – UK politics live

Former Ulster Unionist leader says failure to censure him publicly would show PM’s ‘absolute weakness’Keir Starmer’s allies have launched a “Stop Andy Burnham” campaign to prevent the Labour...

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