Year: 2021

TRT World says Bitcoin has risen above $50,000 for the first time in three months as investors piled back into the cryptocurrency on bargain-buying.

Arab News says Jacinda Ardern has extended New Zealand’s nationwide COVID-19 lockdown saying the current outbreak of the Delta variant had not yet peaked.

BBC News says Boris Johnson is expected to ask Joe Biden to keep American forces in Afghanistan beyond 31 August in order to allow evacuation flights to continue.

Aljazeera says Joe Biden has pledged his “commitment” to get US citizens and at-risk Afghans out of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan but warned of hurdles ahead.

Metro reports that a British paratrooper seen cradling a baby amid the mayhem at Kabul airport has said the image shows what soldiers are doing “on a daily basis”.

The i reports that a former national security adviser has echoed Tony Blair’s swipe at “imbecilic” US exit strategy amid calls to end the deadline.

The Guardian reports that Number 10 says Boris Johnson will plead with Joe Biden to keep US troops at Kabul airport beyond the end of August.

Daily Mail writes that Boris Johnson will plead with Joe Biden to delay the US withdrawal from Afghanistan amid fears mercy flights will be halted within 48 hours.

Britain is pressing Joe Biden to extend next Tuesday’s Afghanistan withdrawal deadline from Afghanistan as the PM prepares to lead world crisis talks.

The Mirror reports on the parents of a woman who was left brain damaged by nurse Beverley Allitt who fear she may soon be freed on parole.