According to the World Bank, the poorest countries face three years of soaring debt service costs, draining vital resources from spending on health, education and social assistance and leaving dozens of countries with unsustainable debts. According to the bank’s annual data published, a group of 69 low- and middle-income countries will make payments of $62bn on public debt this year alone.

On the 3rd of December, the Guardian revealed that Afghan nationals who were promised resettlement to the UK nearly a year ago are facing torture and death while they wait for a response from the British government, the Observer can reveal.Not one person has been accepted and evacuated from Afghanistan under the Home Office’s Afghan citizens’ resettlement scheme (ACRS)...

After concluding his travel to Japan and India, Thomas West, US Envoy for Afghanistan, will visit the United Arab Emirates (UAE) where Afghanistan’s former President Hamid Karzai, former ministers and Afghan politicians Omar Zakhilwal, Karim Khurram have all arrived beforehand; despite that, the Taliban Defense Minister Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid is also on his visit to UAE.

“A Jewish diplomat expressed his concern about the absence of acceptance of the normalization and peace agreements, signed by the Jewish entity with some rulers of Arab countries, by the peoples of those countries. It was evident in the World Cup in Qatar that the peoples refuse normalization with the occupation.”