The Daily Mail says the body of a missing 23-year-old hiker was found after a near two-month search on August 21 in a Montana rockslide with fatal injuries.
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It’s “unlikely” the August deadline to remove troops from Afghanistan will be extended, according to Ben Wallace.
Aljazeera says the Taliban blitzkrieg that dismantled 20 years of neocon and liberal imperialism in Afghanistan has also marked an ignoble end to all manners of pretences. Twenty years ago, the US pretended it was going to Afghanistan to dismantle the Taliban
The Economist says if the propagandists of the Taliban had scripted the collapse of America’s 20-year mission to reshape Afghanistan, they could not have come up with more harrowing images. As insurgents swept into Kabul.
The Guardian says for Donald Trump, the former US president, beating the drum of “America first” was something of an obsession. “The future doesn’t belong to the globalists,” he once told the UN. “The future belongs to patriots.”
The New York Times says Taliban fighters brandished Kalashnikovs and shook their fists in the air after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, defying American warnings that if they did not hand over Osama Bin Laden, their country would be bombed to smithereens.
The Metro says popular fast food restaurant McDonald’s is struggling with supply issues and is currently unable to serve milkshakes in all of its UK restaurants.
The i says hopeful UK travellers are already changing their plans ahead of this week’s expected travel update amid speculation that Jamaica and Morocco could be added to the red list.
The Guardian says planting trees without plastic tree guards should be standard practice, a UK study has found, as leading conservation charities and landowners seek sustainable alternatives to reduce plastic waste.
The Metro says during the grand finale of Love Island 2021, Liam and Millie were crowned the winners of the ITV series, with Chloe and Toby finishing as the runners-up.
The i says the zoom call opens to a black screen. A soft, low voice comes through. The person at the other end (we will call him Aziz) is in Afghanistan.
The Guardian says President Joe Biden is expected to decide within 24 hours whether to extend the 31 August Afghanistan withdrawal deadline.
The Guardian says West Ham are making it impossible to view last season’s exploits as a fluke. They are no longer a soft touch with David Moyes in charge.
The i says anticipation and excitement has swept through ParalympicsGB’s camp as athletes prepare to compete at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, which opens on Tuesday.
The Metro says Katie Price has spoken out after allegedly being assaulted in an ‘unprovoked’ attack that left her with facial injuries.
The Metro reports Joe Biden is coming under mounting pressure to extend the US departure, amid what it describes as the “Taliban’s red line” for Western forces to leave the country.
The i says the UK and US are on a “collision course” with the Taliban. Britain does not want to set a date for the last RAF flight out of Kabul and will attempt to negotiate with the Taliban.
The Guardian reports on the scramble to get people out of Afghanistan following a Taliban warning that foreign forces staying beyond the end of August would be crossing a “red line”.
The Guardian says three people have died and two drivers have been arrested after a serious collision involving a lorry, a minibus and a car on the M25 in Essex. A fourth person is in hospital.
France24 says authorities in Nice opened an investigation into the ugly incidents which led to the abandonment of the weekend Ligue 1 match between the home side and Marseille.
Sky News says a person from Afghanistan on the UK’s no-fly list has been flown into Birmingham as part of the British evacuation operation in a potential security breach.
VOA says the US has evacuated 7,400 people from Kabul in the past 24 hours, as officials confront what Antony Blinken described as an “incredibly volatile situation at the airport”.
TRT World says Tunisia’s President Kais Saied extended the suspension of parliament, after last month dismissing his prime minister and assuming executive authority.
Aljazeera says Israeli warplanes bombed Hamas sites in Gaza in response to incendiary balloons launched from the Palestinian enclave that caused brush fires in southern Israel.
The Daily Mirror reports the arrest of a man on suspicion of assaulting former model and TV personality Katie Price in a ‘home bust-up’.