Thankful for US and @POTUS personal leadership in striking in the heart of Putin’s war machine and banning oil, gas and coal from US market. Encourage other countries and leaders to follow.
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Anti-tank hedgehogs can now be seen in the very heart of Kyiv, the central Independence Square and Khreshchatyk Street.
Photo: Illia Ponomarenko/The Kyiv Independent
⚡️Ukraine, Russia agree to set up humanitarian corridors.
According to Ukraine’s presidential advisor Mykhailo Podolyak, the two sides will together provide humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians and to deliver food and medicine to the areas with the harshest battles.
"I am heartbroken and shattered, to see this really slow-motion horror movie playing out in front of your eyes. That trauma is just, it feels like you are being re-traumatized again," said Haris Tarin, a 42-year old Afghan-American.
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The Taliban has retaken Afghanistan, leaving women terrified of reprisals and the loss of their rights and freedoms.
Here's how women were affected last time the Taliban was in power. 👇
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‘This is a sight I honestly thought I would never see’ — CNN’s Clarissa Ward is reporting on the ground in Kabul as the Afghan capital devolves into a state of ‘absolute pandemonium’ amid Taliban takeover
CNN reporter Clarissa Ward, continuing to report from Afghanistan, interviewing Taliban leaders on the street, and challenging them on treatment of women to their faces, has more courage in her little finger that all the armchair critics combined.
BREAKING: As the Taliban takes over the civilian side of the Kabul airport, Richard Engel says "I don't believe that the U.S. was as surprised as it is claiming." #MTPDaily@RichardEngel: "This was absolutely predictable. ... People were warning from here. I spoke to them."
When she joined the Afghan National Army in 2011 Kubra Behroz was unapologetic and proud.
🗣️“I love my country and we are the next generation of Afghans taking a step into the modern world” she said
Now, as the Taliban take Kabul, she is afraid.
https://t.co/pDzbH7rwy7
Crowds packed the international airport in Kabul in a chaotic scene after Taliban insurgents entered the Afghan capital and President Ashraf Ghani fled the country, saying he wanted to avoid bloodshed https://t.co/neLGwErN3a
An #Afghan journalist in hiding in #Kabul: "So many journalists are calling me. I’m scared for their lives. It’s the worst night of my life for me and thousands of others." @POLITICOMag https://t.co/9vTogKWD37
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