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Created: 2025-07-21 05:45:12 UTC

A US state department cable seen by Reuters reveals that days before United States President Donald Trump pledged to help Afghan evacuees stranded in the UAE, the Emirati government had already told the US it had started returning them to Afghanistan.


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