Afghanistan live news: flights resume at Kabul airport; reports Taliban leader in capital for talks
‘I stand squarely behind my decision,’ says Biden; Senior Taliban leader in Kabul for negotiations – report; flights taking off from Kabul
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Ah, it turns out that the Taliban workout video posted earlier was not filmed in the Afghan presidential palace gym, as earlier reported.
Here is an update from Sune Engel Rasmussen, the Wall Street Journal correspondent who posted the tweets I had embedded in the blog.
I deleted two videos of Taliban fighters as someone smarter than me helpfully pointed out that one of the videos was not from the presidential palace as initially thought. I took both videos down to avoid confusion. Apologies.
Britain will increase humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, “probably by 10%”, the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, has said.
The aid budget would be reconfigured for development and humanitarian purposes in Afghanistan and the Taliban would not get any of the money previously earmarked for security, Raab said.
