UK evacuation from Kabul to end within ‘24 to 36 hours’, defence sources say
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Britain's evacuation from Kabul is expected to end within 24 to 36 hours", potentially abandoning thousands of Afghans, defence sources said as the increasingly bullish Taliban moved to prevent them travelling to the airport to flee.
The US president, Joe Biden, rejected pleas from the UK for the humanitarian airlift to continue beyond 31 August at a virtual meeting of G7 leaders on Tuesday, triggering claims from Conservative MPs that the special relationship" is over and that US-UK relations were about to enter their lowest point since Suez".
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