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President Joe Biden says he stands "squarely behind" his decision to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan and rejected broad criticism of the chaotic withdrawal that is posing a crisis for him.
Biden blamed the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan on Afghan political leaders who fled the country and the unwillingness of the Afghan army to fight the militant group. He has also blamed his predecessor, former president Donald Trump, for empowering the Taliban and leaving them "in the strongest position militarily since 2001."
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Read more: Biden defiant over Afghanistan decision
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The US and Germany are telling their citizens in Afghanistan to avoid travelling to Kabul airport, citing security risks as thousands of desperate people gathered trying to flee almost a week after Taliban Islamists took control.
Mullah Baradar, the Taliban's co-founder, arrived in the Afghan capital for talks with other leaders on Saturday. The group is trying to hammer out a new government after its forces swept across the country as US-led forces pulled out, with the Western-backed government and military collapsing.
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Read more: Afghanistan crisis deteriorates as US admits it's 'fighting against both time and space'
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People who contract the Delta variant of COVID-19 spend much longer infectious before they start to show symptoms than people who contract earlier versions of the virus, new research has found.
Asymptomatic spread of the disease has made stamping it out difficult, particularly the highly contagious Delta variant.
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Read more: Delta patients are infectious without symptoms for longer
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A Defence Force Hercules is en route to Afghanistan to evacuate New Zealand's stranded citizens - but one Kiwi journalist with a first-hand view of the Taliban takeover won't be aboard when it returns.
Charlotte Bellis has been on the ground in the Afghanistan capital of Kabul reporting for Al Jazeera and told Newshub Nation she will remain there to hold the city's new rulers to account.
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Read more: Kiwi journalist Charlotte Bellis won't evacuate Afghanistan despite Taliban takeover
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Mary-Lyn Chambers often wakes in the night gasping for breath. On bad days, when a winter chill seeps into her Auckland home, the film writer and director feels as though her lungs are damp. In October last year, the New Zealand citizen fled Los Angeles, where she had lived for 20 years, and arrived back here to be closer to family and friends.
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Read more: Kiwis who caught Covid-19 overseas urge country to take it seriously
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The lockdown woes of New Zealand are being felt 18,000 kilometres away.
In London, where there are thousands of new cases every day, but no restrictions, there are now growing concerns that the Kiwi outbreak will affect emergency applications for MIQ slots.
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Read more: Concern among Kiwis in London about impact of New Zealand outbreak
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There are still no cases of COVID detected in the South Island, but as locations of interest increase so does the likelihood of the virus crossing the Cook Strait.
As South Islanders sit at home watching cases balloon in the North, sealing off the South is looking like a good idea.
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Read more: Calls to seal South Island off to keep COVID out
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Some of you may have seen the article published by Stuff on Friday, claiming that New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) had issued an edict to stop Kiwi soldiers seeking information and trying to help their trapped Afghan friends. Contrary to claims by Stuff, there has been no official NZDF edict to stop Kiwi soldiers trying to help their trapped Afghan friends.
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Read more: Statement from the Chief of Defence Force: Media Reports
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