US military flights evacuated “over a thousand people, including 300 US citizens” from Afghanistan on Tuesday 17 August alone. The spokesman for the US State Department, Ned Price, said in all, so far, the United States has evacuated more than 3,000 people and about 2,000 Afghans holding special visas have been transferred to the United States, Price added.
UK will welcome 20,000 refugees
The United Kingdom will welcome around 20,000 Afghans in the coming years, according to the details of the scheme released by the government to save the categories most at risk of persecution by the Taliban. This was announced by the Ministry of the Interior. Prime Minister Boris Johnson – who will report to Parliament today, recalled during the summer break to discuss the Afghan crisis – has promised that the country will welcome up to 5,000 Afghans already this year. “We owe a debt of gratitude to everyone who has worked with us in Afghanistan to make it a better place for the past 20 years,” Johnson said.
Biden’s approval rating at the lowest
After the Afghan crisis, the approval rating of US President Joe Biden fell by 7%, to the lowest level since the beginning of his term. According to a Reuters / Ipsos poll, conducted nationwide on Monday, only 46 percent of adult Americans approve of the president’s actions. The figure is down from 53% recorded in a similar survey, dating back to last Friday. Biden’s popularity waned with the entry of the Taliban into Kabul over the weekend and the hasty withdrawal of the Americans after 20 years of military presence in Afghanistan, in an operation costing nearly a trillion dollars to taxpayers and thousands of lives. human.