Afghans fleeing Taliban need negative PCR test to board now-suspended commercial flights out of Kabul — Damned Report
August 17, 2021
I decided to send another email from this account to remind everyone that the Damned Report is being delivered from a different distributor.
It seems that most are still being sent to people’s spam folders—which I recently learned happens quite often when starting a new account.
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Afghanistan
Afghans fleeing Taliban need negative PCR test to board now-suspended commercial flights out of Kabul
The suspension of flights leaving Kabul has left countless civilians at the mercy of the Taliban. But even if flights resume, Afghans fleeing the country will still need to test negative for Covid, according to a baffling report.
By RT
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By RT
China-US-Taiwan
Chinese media warns Taiwanese leaders against acting as ‘strategic pawns’ of US, calls Afghan crisis a ‘lesson’ for them
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