A university student tells of seeing all around her the ‘fearful faces of women and ugly faces of men who hate women’ Early on Sunday morning I was heading to university for a class when a group of women came running out from the women’s dormitory. I asked what had […]
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With the Taliban now in control, large numbers of people have massed at Hamid Karzai airport as foreign embassies evacuate Taliban spokesman claims ‘war is over’ – latest updates Thousands of Afghans and foreign nationals have surged on to the tarmac at Kabul airport seeking a place on a flight […]
Research by thinktank finds women’s mental health particularly affected as home working increases Covid working from home has caused an “epidemic of hidden overtime” that particularly affects women, leading to a need for new “right to disconnect” laws, according a report from Autonomy thinktank. The organisation said unpaid labour was […]
Capital hit by blackout as insurgent fighters reach outskirts and western nations race to evacuate citizens Report: last major Afghan city in the north falls to the Taliban 3.46am BST The animated version of the map I posted earlier: Time lapse video of the Taliban’s offensive when it began taking […]
Woman, 18, is in intensive care in Abidjan as emergency plan to identify her contacts begins Ivory Coast has recorded a case of Ebola, its health minister has said, the first occurrence of the deadly disease in the country in nearly three decades. Officials at the Institut Pasteur confirmed the […]
Vaccine-beating variant is ‘realistic possibility’, say scientists, amid calls for contingency plans to be revealed Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Ministers are being pressed to reveal what contingency plans are in place to deal with a future Covid variant that evades current vaccines, amid warnings from […]
Keyham’s tight-knit community says the government has ‘big questions’ to answer about gun control Five-year-old Evie-Rae left her grandmother Terri’s side and carefully placed a pink candle and a teddy bear on the growing pile of tributes at the foot of a tree in North Down Crescent Park. “I wanted […]
Prime minister declares month-long state of emergency after earthquake felt across the Caribbean At least 304 people have died, with 1,800 injured and hundreds missing after Haiti was struck by a 7.2-magnitude earthquake that reduced churches, hotels and homes to rubble, in the latest tragedy to hit a Caribbean nation […]
Insurgents control more than two-thirds of the country and are closing in on Kabul The Taliban’s seemingly unstoppable advance across Afghanistan continued on Friday, as insurgents took control of four more provincial capitals, having on Thursday seized Kandahar and Herat, the second and third-largest cities. With Afghan government forces in […]
Oxford Vaccine Group and Gavi say western leaders must not ‘reject their responsibility to the rest of humanity’ We shouldn’t be giving Covid boosters while millions wait for first dose See all our coronavirus coverage Many more people around the world will die of Covid if western political leaders “reject […]