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...Less than a year after the Taliban retook power in Afghanistan following the chaotic US withdrawal in 2021, President Joe Biden vowed the country that once harboured Osama bin Laden would “never again ....
...One piece of good news, the 2022 drone strike that took out Ayman al-Zawahiri, who succeeded Osama bin Laden as head of the group, also illustrates the underlying bad news....
...“You could see trees laden with fruit, but people weren’t really harvesting them. There was still a kind of folklore around citrus fruits but the local economy had moved on,” he says....
...Once a concrete-laden Soviet-era factory, the complex now houses a hostel, a string of bars and cafés and, up some metal stairs, one of the city’s most popular co-working spaces, Impact Hub....
...That TikTok is brainwashing Gen Z into quoting Osama bin Laden?...
...I don’t buy too much, though, my car boot is already laden with the spoils of Montreuil....
...Lorries laden with sand and gravel speed down highways, pick-up trucks haul trailers carrying shining new diggers and SUVs cart diesel engines and coils of piping....
...(The emotionally constipated Carolyn has long since supplanted Villanelle as the character I’d like to know better)....
...Increasing barriers to achieving financial security have led a younger generation of investors to say, “F@$K it”....
...“My soul is broken,” Carolyn said at one point during her testimony....
...Joe Biden defended the chaotic withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan by insisting the job had been done of eliminating the terrorist threat from the country that had provided refuge to Osama bin Laden...
...Osama bin Laden’s organisation used its money and resources to support the Taliban....
...The US said it “successfully hit the target” and had destroyed an explosives-laden vehicle that was to be used in a second airport attack....
...The remnants of Osama bin Laden’s group and its longstanding host, the Taliban, are now relative moderates in the terrorist universe....
...“As nature intended,” he says, “the mature bark is now gnarled and laden with moss, which glows an almost iridescent green when the conditions are damp enough.”...
...State pension ages, meanwhile, are rising around the world, heaping more pressure on the debt-laden young to save harder but into riskier pension plans....
...Their rally of close to 90 per cent since March diverges sharply from the fate of stocks in beaten-up sectors such as banking, leading to claims of a K-shaped rebound....
...Bredgade 4, 2 TV, 1260 Copenhagen K; studiocimmahony.com, @studiocimmahony...
...The typical K-12 student will only have 70 per cent of the reading ability they would have had after a normal academic year, and roughly 50 per cent of the mathematical skills....
...JESSICA BERESFORD Borgergade 17B, 1300 Copenhagen K (hollygolightly.dk). Alára“People don’t come here for basics, but for glamour,” says Reni Folawiyo, founder of Nigerian concept store Alára....
...Instead Coty and its majority holders at JAB Holding were forced to find alternative arrangements to secure funds for the debt-laden company....
...“I find it flabbergasting that the chancellor comes up with a set of figures to suggest such a doom-laden scenario,” he said....
...“I’m honoured to be a catalyst to change people’s thinking,” says Finley (he refuses to give his age but describes himself as “old as f**k!”)...
...But it will have left Dame Carolyn, who starts in January, well aware of ITV’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats....
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