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AUSTRALIA UK WORLD Chaos As Thousands Flee AUGUST 16 (GMT) – AUGUST 17 (AEST), 2021 YOUR DAILY TOP 12 STORIES FROM FRANK NEWS FULL STORIES START ON PAGE 3 WORLD UK AUSTRALIA Chaos as thousands flee Kabul Boris vows to evacuate Brits ‘Disturbingly high’ cases in NSW Thousands of people packed into the Prime Minister Boris Johnson has NSW has reported a “disturbingly high” Afghan capital Kabul’s airport, rushing vowed to get as many as possible of 478 new locally acquired cases of the tarmac and pushing onto planes in the Afghans who worked with the UK COVID-19, on another record-breaking desperate attempts to flee the country out of the country as the Taliban stood day with escalating transmissions and after the Taliban overthrew the Western- poised to take control of the capital eight deaths. At least 91 of the new backed government. US soldiers fired Kabul. With President Ashraf Ghani fled, cases were circulating in the community warning shots as they struggled to and insurgent fighters surrounding for all or part of their infectious period in manage the chaotic evacuation. The the capital, the Prime Minister said the the 24 hours to 8pm on Sunday. Among Taliban swept into Kabul on Sunday after situation was “extremely difficult”. the eight dead was 15-year-old Osama President Ashraf Ghani fled the country, Suduh, the youngest person in Australia bringing a stunning end to a two-decade to die with the virus. campaign. WORLD UK NEW ZEALAND Fear, chaos amid fall of Kabul UK military ‘cannot return’ Takeover ‘catastrophic failure’ The Taliban has swept into Afghanistan’s The former head of Nato says the UK Former prime minister Helen Clark says capital Kabul after the government military cannot return to Afghanistan the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan collapsed and the embattled president after the country was retaken by the shows “a catastrophic failure of joined an exodus of his fellow citizens Taliban. Lord Robertson, who served as intelligence in Western foreign policy” and foreigners, signaling the end of general secretary of the military alliance and to say that she is pessimistic a costly two-decade US campaign to between 1999 and 2004 – and issued about the country’s future would be remake the country. Heavily armed a statement invoking article five of the an understatement. Taliban insurgents Taliban fighters fanned out across the treaty that provides for collective defence have entered Kabul and President Ashraf capital, and several entered Kabul’s after the attack on the World Trade Ghani has fled Afghanistan, bringing the abandoned presidential palace. Centre on 9/11 – said that the UK should Islamist militants close to taking over focus on increasing its defences against the country two decades after they were terrorism at home. overthrown by a US-led invasion. 1 AUGUST 16 (GMT) – AUGUST 17 (AEST), 2021 YOUR DAILY TOP 12 STORIES FROM FRANK NEWS FULL STORIES START ON PAGE 6 NORTH AMERICA UK AUSTRALIA Taliban take Biden by surprise Hundreds mourn attack victims Melbourne lockdown extended President Joe Biden and other top US There has been a heartfelt plea for Melbourne’s lockdown has been officials were stunned by the pace of the change as hundreds gathered in extended by two weeks and a night Taliban’s nearly complete takeover of Plymouth to pay their respects to the curfew will be reimposed, in an effort to Afghanistan, as the planned withdrawal five people killed in one of the UK’s stamp out the state’s latest outbreak of of American forces urgently became a worst mass shootings. Civic leaders, the Delta coronavirus variant. Premier mission to ensure a safe evacuation. religious figures, politicians, emergency Daniel Andrews announced the The speed of the Afghan government’s service workers and the military joined extension, as well as a raft of tougher collapse and the ensuing chaos posed around 200 people outside the Guildhall restrictions, after the state recorded 22 the most serious test of Biden as in Plymouth city centre to hold a one new local COVID-19 cases, including five commander in chief, and he was the minute’s silence. mystery cases. subject of withering criticism from Republicans who said that he had failed. NORTH AMERICA UK NEW ZEALAND Democrats face budget rebellion Isolation ends for fully vaxxed Headline here… House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has People who are fully vaccinated against Defence Force personnel could be proposed a procedural vote this month COVID-19 will no longer have to isolate deployed as nearly as Wednesday to that would set up future passage of if they come into contact with someone help New Zealanders and their families two economic measures crucial to who has tested positive for the virus. evacuate from Afghanistan, as well as President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda, From Monday, people in England who at-risk Afghan nationals who have helped a move Democratic leaders hope will win have had both doses of a coronavirus state agencies. The country has fallen must-have votes from unhappy party vaccine, or are under 18, will not have to quickly under Taliban control since the moderates. Pelosi suggested that the spend 10 days in quarantine if they are US evacuation of the Bagram airbase at House will take a single vote that would a contact of a positive case, a change the beginning of July. An RNZAF C-130 clear an initial hurdle for both a budget which has been hailed “another step back Hercules aircraft with 40 NZDF personnel resolution and a separate infrastructure towards normality”. is scheduled to be deployed. bill. 2 AUGUST 16 (GMT) – AUGUST 17 (AEST), 2021 - AP Taliban fighters take control of Afghan presidential palace after the Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country, in Kabul, Afghanistan. - AP WORLD WORLD Chaos as thousands Taliban forces sweep flee from Afghanistan into Afghan capital Thousands of people packed into the Afghan capital The Taliban has swept into Afghanistan’s capital Kabul Kabul’s airport, rushing the tarmac and pushing onto after the government collapsed and the embattled planes in desperate attempts to flee the country after president joined an exodus of his fellow citizens and the Taliban overthrew the Western-backed government. foreigners, signaling the end of a costly two-decade US US soldiers fired warning shots as they struggled to campaign to remake the country. manage the chaotic evacuation. Heavily armed Taliban fighters fanned out across the capital, The Taliban swept into Kabul on Sunday after President Ashraf and several entered Kabul’s abandoned presidential palace. Ghani fled the country, bringing a stunning end to a two- Suhail Shaheen, a Taliban spokesman and negotiator, said decade campaign in which the US and its allies had tried to that the militants would hold talks in the coming days aimed transform Afghanistan. The country’s Western-trained security at forming an “open, inclusive Islamic government.” forces collapsed or fled in the face of an insurgent offensive Earlier, a Taliban official said the group would announce that tore through the country in just over a week, ahead of from the palace the restoration of the Islamic Emirate of the planned withdrawal of the last US troops at the end of Afghanistan, the formal name of the country under Taliban rule the month. before the militants were ousted by US-led forces in the wake In the capital, a tense calm set in, with most people hiding of the 9/11 attacks, which were orchestrated by al-Qaida while in their homes as the Taliban deployed fighters at major it was being sheltered by the Taliban. But that plan appeared intersections. There were scattered reports of looting and to be on hold. armed men knocking on doors and gates, and there was less Kabul was gripped by panic. Helicopters raced overhead traffic than usual on eerily quiet streets. Fighters could be seen throughout the day to evacuate personnel from the US searching vehicles at one of the city’s main squares. Embassy. Smoke rose near the compound as staff destroyed Many fear chaos, after the Taliban freed thousands of important documents, and the American flag was lowered. prisoners and the police simply melted away, or a return to Several other Western missions also prepared to pull their the kind of brutal rule the Taliban imposed when it was last people out. in power. Fearful that the Taliban could reimpose the kind of brutal Wahidullah Qadiri, a Kabul resident, said he hoped for peace rule that all but eliminated women’s rights, Afghans rushed to after decades of war that have claimed the lives of two of his leave the country, lining up at cash machines to withdraw their brothers and a cousin. life savings. The desperately poor – who had left homes in the “We haven’t seen anything but catastrophes and fighting, so countryside for the presumed safety of the capital – remained we always live with hope for a long-lasting peace,” he said. in parks and open spaces throughout the city. Thousands of others doubted peace would come and raced Though the Taliban had promised a peaceful transition, the to Kabul’s international airport. Videos circulating on social US Embassy suspended operations and warned Americans late media showed hundreds of people running across the tarmac in the day to shelter in place and not try to get to the airport. as US soldiers fired warning shots in the air. One showed a Commercial flights were suspended after sporadic gunfire crowd pushing and shoving its way up a staircase, trying to erupted at the Kabul airport, according to two senior US board a plane, with some people hanging off the railings. ■ military officials.
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