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Author: Reuters

Australia ran four flights into Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday night, evacuating more than 300 people, including Australians, Afghan visa holders, New Zealanders, US and British citizens, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Sunday.

The news came after the United States and Germany told their citizens in Afghanistan to avoid travelling to Kabul airport, citing security risks as thousands tried to flee almost a week after Taliban Islamists took control.

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Author: William Hewett

Taliban fighters have reportedly set a woman on fire for "bad cooking" as others are allegedly being forced into sex slavery. 

A respected former Afghan judge and activist Najla Ayoubi has described her experience in the capital saying she had to "flee" for her life after promoting women's rights.

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Author: nzherald.co.nz

Dr Ashley Bloomfield and Chris Hipkins give Covid-19 update

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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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Author: Reuters

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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Author: Dan Satherley

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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Author: Finn Hogan.

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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Author: Sarah Catherall

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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