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BBC Presenter and Chief International Correspondent. Canada is my country, London is my city, but am at home in many places.

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    9 hours ago

    💔Tragic

    For 8.5 years, I taught at the American University of Afghanistan as a faculty member and academic administrator. I founded the first Gender Studies program in Afghanistan's history there. All our work, hopes, dreams, progress. Only to have it snatched away so needlessly.
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  2. 31 minutes ago

    queues at banks stretch all the way down the street.. Afghans tell us they wait days. Most branches are shut. Most have no money

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    10 hours ago

    Update from the National Museum of Afghanistan director, accompanied by a photo showing the message greeting visitors outside the museum entrance

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    14 hours ago

    The situation in AFG turned to a point where many felt unsafe to continue 2 live there. The Qatari gov.was one of the many who helped evacuate our people to safety in a very organized manner.When women are decision makers,the world become a better place.Thanks 2

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    51 minutes ago

    Beheshta Arghand who made headlines around the world after interviewing a Taliban leader live on TV when they took Kabul has fled Afghanistan. "I miss my job, my country. If I know the Taliban have changed and do what they promised then I'll go back."

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  6. 53 minutes ago

    So so sorry to see you leave .. a place and a people close to your heart

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    Our correspondent reports on her expulsion from Russia.
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  7. 1 hour ago

    Today is publication day for "The Afghanistan Papers." With US troops gone from the country, the debate over what went wrong during the last 20 years is just starting. This book is an attempt to hold people accountable. 1/x
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  8. 1 hour ago

    Thank you! ..do listen

    BBC’s has an insightful podcast on Afghanistan titled کاشکی Kash-ke a phrase that I had frequently heard from my grandparents: Only If
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  9. 2 hours ago

    A Wish for - our new podcast starts tomorrow. For months we spoke to people who’ve shaped events & been shaped by them. Then suddenly it all turned upside down & inside out. Profiles of people who worked for, wished for a different future. Do join us !

    I've taken a couple of weeks off The Climate Question to work with on an urgent new podcast series. Hear Ep 0 now:
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  10. 2 hours ago

    Surreal to enter what was a U.S. office at .. a moment in time just days before Kabul fell when they planned their “safe and orderly” pullout .

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  11. 2 hours ago

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    Girls education is A way to long lasting peace A way to end violence A way to stay independent A way to rebuild The country A way to educate a generation A way to defend human rights We will fight for girls education and ensure every girl has access to school and higher edu
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  12. 8 hours ago

    With all due respect to ..sometimes you can hear the news .

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    Gunshots sounded out across the skies of Kabul, as the final US soldiers left Afghanistan Chief International Correspondent reports live from the capital, as US forces end their 20 years of service
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    13 hours ago

    Gunshots sounded out across the skies of Kabul, as the final US soldiers left Afghanistan Chief International Correspondent reports live from the capital, as US forces end their 20 years of service

    Afghans face uncertainty as Taliban celebrate victory
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    12 hours ago

    “today is our Independence Day” a group of Taliban fighters handing out flags tell us on the streets of Kabul

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  15. 9 hours ago

    # Afghanistan # Kabul

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  16. 14 hours ago

    For the street kids of - a life no different from one day to the next..

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  17. 16 hours ago

    “History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.”

    The last US soldier who left Afghanistan in night's darkness on Monday was Mjor Gen. Chris Donahue while Gen. Gormove became the last ex-Soviet soldier who quit the country holding a bouquet of flower in the middle of day.
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    24 hours ago

    For twenty years, the US was a force for good in Afghanistan. Never an occupier, it fought in self-defence, under mandates, with NATO allies & partners. Its presence brought millions of Afghans home. Investments in education, elections & highways gave hope to millions. 1/3

    LIVE: John F. Kirby and commander, Marine Corps Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., hold a news briefing at the Pentagon.
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    23 hours ago

    One day in the video-Gibbon history of the American empire this video will have a place. “They looked like American soldiers, they might be taken for American soldiers — but they were not American soldiers”

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    23 hours ago

    Badri 313 Unit at Kabul airport.

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