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The Shaiq family fled Jalalabad after several attacks on the media company that had been established over the past 20 years. “We broadcast movies and music on our channels and produce human rights programs and critical political reporting. The Taliban don’t like it, ”Shaiq said with a smile. Sharq Network has been popular with Western troops in Afghanistan for the …

Almost all local Afghan embassy staff and their families will be evacuated on Saturday. This concerns 207 people who come to the Netherlands on different flights. Previously, they had remained in place, while Dutch diplomats were rescued. Foreign Ministry spokesperson confirms evacuation of more than two hundred Afghans who worked for the Netherlands, after reports by NRC. It’s a boost …

An AP news agency photographer saw residents of the port city of Les Cayes attacking a humanitarian convoy at a Red Cross site. Among other things, they took away mattresses that had not yet been distributed. Tents were also stolen further into the city. Relief supplies were also stolen in the nearby town of Vye Terre. A truck belonging to …

Culiseta longiareolata feels at home from the Azores to Central Asia, but nowadays it can also be seen closer to home. Over the past ten years, the mosquito has been increasingly present in Western and Central Europe, such as Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Switzerland and Luxembourg. The mosquito has rarely been seen as far north as in the study by the …

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny (45) thanks on Instagram everyone who helped save his life, exactly one year ago today. He then fell ill on a domestic flight from Siberia to Moscow, passed out in a hospital in Omsk and was transported from there to Germany, where doctors determined he had been poisoned. “I just don’t know when to celebrate …

Today at 5 p.m. local time expires an ultimatum that should have allowed owner Helen MacDonald to administer the fatal blow to Geronimo herself. She still has no plans to do so, reports The Guardian, among others. The public debate in England about Geronimo’s future led, among other things, to a petition to save the animal. It has now been …

France has already evacuated hundreds of people from Afghanistan in relative silence in recent months. This happened in the hope that the Taliban would take power. Preparations started four months ago. The French ambassador in Kabul, David Martinon, then summoned French humanitarian organizations for consultation. The message: danger was imminent and people would be evacuated. “In mid-April, we received the …

Monday August 16: British citizens of Afghanistan board a British military plane at Kabul airport.EPA Image UK At least 900 British special forces are evacuating 6,000 British, Irish and Afghan asylum seekers. In this evacuation, which has been going on since the end of last week, soldiers are entering the city to pick up people and take them to the …

The forest fires that have been raging in France and Greece for several days have not yet been brought under control. The weather conditions in France have improved; the wind has calmed down a bit. But in the Var, fires are still raging in 7,000 hectares of forest. Most of this area, near Saint-Tropez on the Côte d’Azur, has been …

Born in the province of Uruzgan, in his fifties, he is one of the co-founders of the extremist movement. His nickname Baradar, brother, was given to him by the first commander-in-chief. “People I spoke to in Uruzgan described him as the smart guy behind the charismatic Mullah Omar,” says Willem Vogelsang. Since the late 1970s, the Dutchman has spent many …