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Sat, 28 Aug 2021 21:05:00 +0100
Britain's 20-year Afghanistan campaign comes to an end as last troops touch down in UK
The last remaining UK troops have begun to touch down in the UK after leaving Kabul for the last time, ending Britain's 20-year campaign in Afghanistan.

Sat, 28 Aug 2021 19:24:00 +0100
'They didn't flinch, they got on with the job': PM pays tribute to British troops as plans revealed to help Afghan evacuees settle in UK
The UK's armed forces "didn't flinch, kept calm" and "got on with the job", the prime minister has said as he thanked them for their "colossal exertions" in airlifting more than 15,000 people out of Afghanistan.

Sat, 28 Aug 2021 16:38:00 +0100
Biden warns another airport attack 'highly likely in next 24-36 hours'; vows more strikes on ISIS-K
President Joe Biden has warned that another terror attack at Kabul airport is "highly likely in the next 24-36 hours" - and vowed further US airstrikes against ISIS-K targets.

Sat, 28 Aug 2021 22:30:00 +0100
After fleeing fear and death, Afghan evacuees start to hope as they wait to be flown to America
In an otherwise forgettable corner of western Germany, you drive round a corner and find yourself in America, complete with planes, jeeps and a lot of soldiers.

Sun, 29 Aug 2021 01:12:00 +0100
'I love my job': US Marine posted moving photo of herself with an Afghan child just days before she was killed
One of Nicole Gee's last social media posts was a photo of her cradling a baby amid the chaos outside Kabul's airport.

Sat, 28 Aug 2021 20:30:00 +0100
20 years of war, 10 days for Kabul to fall - was it all worth it?
What happened in America on 11 September 2001 changed the course of history.

Sun, 29 Aug 2021 03:14:00 +0100
Last interpreter evacuated by UK from Afghanistan saved in dramatic night-time rescue
Salvation for the last Afghan interpreter to be evacuated to the UK came at night when British soldiers bundled him and his family - including a three-month-old baby - over a barbed wire fence and into Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport.

Sat, 28 Aug 2021 15:30:00 +0100
Pen Farthing 'on his way home with his dogs and cats' after charter plane picks them up from Kabul
Pen Farthing is "on his way home now with his dogs and cats" after a charter plane picked them up from Kabul, his spokesperson has said.

Sun, 29 Aug 2021 06:30:00 +0100
Mother punches mountain lion to save son, five, from savage attack
The mother of a five-year-old boy tackled a mountain lion with her bare hands after the wild animal dragged her son across his front lawn in southern California.

Sun, 29 Aug 2021 04:43:00 +0100
'I honestly didn't know that time was within me': World record for paralympian Hannah Cockroft
Hannah Cockroft has won her sixth gold medal after powering to T34 100 victory with a world record time of 16.39.



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