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The change in US foreign policy, the signal of which is the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan, should induce the West to engage in talks within NATO on the security and future of military operations, writes the Financial Times, citing diplomats and experts.more

Joe Biden has announced the wholesale review and declassification of files from the investigation into the 9/11 attack, in response to intense pressure from Congress and victims’ families currently suing Saudi Arabia.more

Earlier this week, the United Kingdom and America officially ended their military presence in Afghanistan, and the British government has cleared the evacuation of some 15,000 people from the Taliban-led country. Among them was the Afghan officer whose departure Prince William was fighting. They know each other from the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst.more

Messaging app calls €225m fine for breaking data protection rules ‘entirely disproportionate’ more

I came back to Poland and to Zabrze like home - said the Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson during a visit to the Silesian Center for Heart Diseases in Zabrze.more

Greater involvement of countries from the region in Afghanistan is necessary in order to have a maximum moderating influence on the Taliban, said British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab after talks with the Qatari authorities.more

British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab admitted that the government is unable to determine exactly how many people entitled to evacuate to the UK are still in Afghanistan.more

Figures released by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) on Tuesday show how the combination of positive net migration and natural increase gave population growth of 34,000 in the year to April 2021 to push the population to an estimated 5.01m.more

Afghans who have worked with the British military evacuated to the UK will receive an indefinite residence permit, not a five-year temporary residence permit, as has been the case so far, the Interior Ministry announced today.more

Only 38 percent of Poles trust that the authorities acted in good faith in the fight against the pandemic. In the West, skeptics are marginal - the Polish daily "Rzeczpospolita" reports.more

The UK is in talks with the Taliban to secure safe passage out of Afghanistan for a number of British nationals and Afghans who remain there.more

Afghan women will be allowed to study at universities, but they cannot be in the same room as men and will not be taught by male teachers, the Taliban’s acting higher education minister announced as the world awaited the new rules under the extremist regime that is expected to curb women’s rights.more

The Polish government asked the president on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency in two regions on its border with Belarus after the Polish Border Guard said hundreds of irregular crossings had taken place this month.more

Hours after the last plane carrying US forces left Kabul airport, the Taliban announced the “complete independence” of Afghanistan and promised to form a new inclusive Islamic government under its leadership.more

Foreign Office minister James Cleverly has defended the ministry’s response to the crisis in Afghanistan amid allegations that his boss, Dominic Raab, is a “control freak” who faces the sack.more

President Joe Biden appeared to sleep in his chair during a meeting with Israel's Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in a bizarre video circulating online.more

36 percent Poles believe that currently deputies work less than in previous terms; while according to 73 percent. MPs' salaries are too high - according to the August Kantar poll. Only 12 percent. respondents believe that MPs work more than before, and 6 percent. believes they are earning too little.more

Two adult British citizens and a teenage child of another British citizen died in terrorist attacks on Thursday near Kabul airport, Foreign Minister Dominic Raab said yesterday. From August 13, British soldiers evacuated 13,708 people from Afghanistan, while there were still about 800-1,100 authorized to leave.more

Pskov Prison specializes in psychological violence; the guards do not beat the prisoners, but force them to watch TV five times a day, Russian oppositionist Alexei Navalny told the New York Times in an interview from the prison.more

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The UK has "hours now, not weeks" to evacuate people from Afghanistan, the defence secretary has said. Ben Wallace said troops would leave Kabul's airport when the US withdrew, which is due to happen on 31 August.more

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will personally ask US President Joe Biden during the virtual summit of G7 leaders to extend the time limit for US troops to remain at Kabul airport beyond August 31, British media reported today.more

We do not recognize the illegal annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol by Russia and we will continue this policy, said Charles Michel, President of the European Council in Kiev, during the summit of the Crimean Platform.more

The US withdrawal from Afghanistan is "tragic, dangerous and unnecessary" and the decision of US President Joe Biden was taken because of "the moronic slogan of ending endless wars," said former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.more

38.5 percent Poles believe that the parliament in Poland "will not survive until the end of the term of office in 2023" after leaving the Covenant government; the opposite opinion is shared by 28.6 percent. respondents, and 32.9 percent. he has no opinion on this subject - according to a SW Research survey for rp.pl.more