“Joe’s no to Bojo”, says Metros’s headline. It says the US president snubbed the prime minister’s plea to keep his troops in Afghanistan beyond 31 August.
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The i sees the next few days as the “last chance to escape the Taliban”. The only realistic route out of the country will soon be a “dangerous land journey to refugee camps
The Guardian says thousands of Afghans could potentially be abandoned if the UK operations end as expected in 24 to 36 hours.
Aljazeera says Japan is expanding a state of emergency to eight more prefectures, taking the total to 21 in all, to stem a rapid rise in coronavirus infections
Arab News says Saudi Arabia on Tuesday lifted a direct entry ban on expats from 20 countries, a decision taken in February to curb the spread of COVID-19.
TRT World says the World Bank has suspended aid to Afghanistan, saying it is “deeply concerned” by the situation there, especially regarding women’s rights.
TRT World says Joe Biden has said US intends to complete its pullout from Afghanistan by August 31 and needs to withdraw rapidly because of a growing risk of militant attacks.
France24 says the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday denied President Joe Biden’s bid to rescind an immigration policy implemented by his predecessor, Donald Trump.
BBC News says Sir Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have paid tribute to their bandmate Charlie Watts, following the death of the Rolling Stones drummer.
The Daily Mirror quotes the tribute from Sir Elton John, who described Charlie Watts as the “ultimate drummer”.
Photographs of Charlie Watts feature on every front page following the death of the Rolling Stone’s drummer at the age of 80.
The Daily Mail reports Joe Biden’s decision – but its story also points out that the Taliban rejected a deadline extension.
The Metro says a woman has been arrested on suspicion of animal cruelty after allegedly throwing her ex’s cat into a river during an argument which got out of hand.
The Metro says parts of Donald Trump’s much-publicised border wall with Mexico have been severely damaged in monsoon rains.
The i says the leader of US extremist group the Proud Boys has been jailed for five months after tearing down a historic black church’s Black Lives Matter banner and burning it.
The i says a niece of former US President Donald Trump has accused him of “cheering on the chaos” in Afghanistan as fear and uncertainty continues to grip the impoverished nation.
The Guardian says Kathy Hochul, the first woman to become governor of New York state, will make her debut speech from the executive mansion in Albany on Tuesday
The Guardian says Igor Vovkovinskiy, the tallest man in the US, has died in Minnesota. He was 38.
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.
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.