Poland was eager to provide humanitarian aid to migrants who set up a camp at its border with Belarus, but the offer was rejected by Minsk, Polish President Andrzej Duda has said. The Belarusian authorities didn’t let a single aid convoy in, Duda complained after an urgent National Security Bureau meeting on Tuesday. Also on […]
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Taliban calls for improved ‘diplomatic relations’ with US after ‘candid talks’ in Doha, welcomes humanitarian aid
The Taliban has said that the US agreed to provide humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan, insisting it should come with no strings attached after talks in Qatar. Washington called the meeting “candid” and “professional.” In a statement released in the wake of two-day talks with US officials in Doha, Qatar, the Taliban said that the US […]
EU foreign policy chief says ‘people on the ground’ needed in Afghanistan alongside humanitarian workers
The EU evacuated all its staff from Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover in August, but the bloc’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell now insists that Brussels must maintain a presence in the turbulent country. “We need to have people on the ground in Afghanistan, in addition to our humanitarian workers,” Borrell wrote in a blogpost […]



