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Now I have to burn everything that I have achieved in 24 years of my life - says a female student from Kabul University after the Taliban took power in Afghanistan. Her report was published yesterday by British "The Guardian".more

The regaining of power in Afghanistan by the Taliban is the greatest disaster of US foreign policy in almost 50 years, and the human cost of this error for Afghans will be enormous and unstoppable, reports the British press today.more

"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is in touch with Poles in Afghanistan and is taking steps to urgently evacuate them," said Deputy Foreign Minister Marcin Przydacz today on Twitter. According to him, in recent months many people working for a democratic Afghanistan have been evacuated with the support of the institutions of the Polish state.more

British forces going back to Afghanistan is "not on the cards", Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has told Sky News. Mr Wallace said it was not yet the right time to decide on whether to recognise the Taliban as the Afghan government.more

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said no one wants Afghanistan to become a "breeding ground for terror", as the Taliban enters capital Kabul.more

Boris Johnson has said the UK can be "extremely proud" of its role in Afghanistan, despite the situation in the country having "deteriorated". The UK will evacuate the "vast bulk" of its embassy staff in the coming days as the Taliban continues to advance.more

Afghanistan is "heading towards civil war" as the UK prepares to withdraw its citizens, allies and troops, the defence secretary has said. Ben Wallace told BBC Breakfast that it was likely that poverty and terrorism would increase in the country.more

The conflict in Afghanistan is threatening the emergence of a new wave of refugees from that country who will seek shelter, among others in European Union countries - warned yesterday a high-ranking representative of the European Commission, quoted by the AFP agency.more

The Army has been put on standby to deliver supplies to supermarkets as Britain faces a shortage of 100,000 truck drivers. more

North Korea continued to develop nuclear and ballistic missile programs in the first half of 2021 in violation of international sanctions and despite the country's worsening economic situation, Reuters reported yesterday, citing a confidential UN report.more

Female soldiers will be able to ditch the bun for the first time as part of new hair rules that allow plaits and cornrows to reflect the military’s "diverse" forces. more

The campaign of the Swedish army, displaying a rainbow flag held by a soldier, caused controversy in Sweden. The advertisement appeared in connection with the Pride week of the LGBT community, which started yesterday in Stockholm.more

The UK and Iran have summoned each other's diplomats in a row over last week's deadly attack on an oil tanker off the coast of Oman. The UK, US and Israel blame Iran for the attack, in which two crew members - a Briton and a Romanian - were killed.more

The UK and US believe Iran was behind a tanker attack that killed two people, and have vowed to respond, calling it a violation of international law. The MV Mercer Street, operated by an Israeli-owned firm, was attacked off Oman on Thursday. A British national and a Romanian citizen were killed.more

Russia and China are reckless in space and their anti-satellite weapons tests are cause for concern, said British Air Force Commander Marshal Mike Wigston.more

The Russian navy can detect any enemy and launch an "unpreventable strike" if needed, President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday, weeks after a UK warship angered Moscow by passing the Crimea peninsula.more

Coronavirus outbreaks have already been detected on both British aircraft carriers. Two days after it was confirmed that there were about 100 infections on HMS Queen Elizabeth, it turned out that the coronavirus was present on HMS Prince of Wales, the Sun reported yesterday evening.more

A senior Russian security official warned Britain on Wednesday not to sail its warships near Russian-annexed Crimea again unless it wanted its sailors to get hurt.more

An outbreak of Covid-19 has been confirmed on the Royal Navy's flagship, HMS Queen Elizabeth. The BBC has been told there have been around 100 cases on the aircraft carrier, which is part way through a world tour.more

In Mississauga, at the Polish John Paul II Center, the construction of a monument commemorating Polish RAF airmen fighting in World War II, Polish ground personnel and Women's Auxiliary Service was officially started yesterday.more

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed that most British troops have left Afghanistan, almost 20 years after the UK and other Western countries sent troops into the country to engage in what they described as a “war on terror”.more

Russian President Vladimir Putin, when asked about the actions of a British warship in the Black Sea, assessed, inter alia, that he is concerned about the "military development of the territory of Ukraine". He also assured that Russia's opponents would not have won the "Third World War".more

Classified Ministry of Defence documents containing details about HMS Defender and the British military have been found at a bus stop in Kent. One set of documents discusses the likely Russian reaction to the ship's passage through Ukrainian waters off the Crimea coast on Wednesday.more

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday said it was "entirely right" for a British warship to travel through the waters off Crimea amid an ongoing diplomatic spat with Russia.more

The Black Sea incident involving the British destroyer HMS Defender was a deliberately prepared provocation, said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. He announced that the Russian army would take "quite a tough stance against this kind of provocation".more