Michael Moore compares Christian conservatives in US to Afghanistan's 'religious nuts'

on Twitter back in March, citing the show’s other cast members and writers with connections to Afghanistan.“It’s actually quite fortunate. Because it’s my show I can make sure that it is written and produced by Afghans and Muslims,” he said at the time.

CBS comedy United States of Al premiered two weeks before the U.S. announced its withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterDirector Jonas Pohen Rasmussen was initially reluctant to make an English-language version of “Flee,” his animated documentary about a refugee who escaped his home in Afghanistan as a child to safety in Denmark.

New York Fashion Week is back! And if the optimistic, neon-hued and feather-trimmed spring/summer 2022 collection US designer Christian Siriano sent storming the runway to open the event last night is anything to go by, the city’s designers are set to deliver fashion’s much-missed vivacity in bounds.

BBC that the Taliban will “impose a lifestyle on the Afghan people that I think is going to make us all sick to our stomach.”“But most importantly,” he said, “they’re going to give safe haven to Al-Qaeda who has ambitions to drive us out of the Mideast writ large and attack us because of our way of life.

military veteran who served in Afghanistan had taken their own life in recent days because of their feelings over what had happened there. During a round of broadcast interviews this morning Armed Forces Minister James Heappey told Sky News he was aware of at least one former soldier who had taken their life "in the last week or so" in the wake of the takeover by the Taliban.

Over 24 hours in Kabul, brutality, trauma, moments of grace— US: Afghan evacuees who fail initial screening Kosovo-bound— Rescue groups: US tally misses hundreds left in Afghanistan— US expects to admit more than 50,000 evacuated Afghans— Afghan women demand rights as Taliban seek recognition———— Find more AP coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/afghanistan———HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:KABUL, Afghanistan — Some domestic flights have resumed at Afghanistan’s international airport in Kabul, with

Naman Ramachandran Women filmmakers from Afghanistan made a powerful and emotional plea for international intellectual support at a panel at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday.Fighting back tears, Sahraa Karimi, who wrote a hard-hitting open letter about the impact of her country being taken over again by the Taliban, did not mince her words about the current situation in the country.

Ed Asner, actor. Born: 15 November 1929 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Died: 29 August 2021 in Tarzana, Los Angeles, California, United States, aged 91Ed Asner, the burly and prolific character actor who became a star in middle age as the gruff but lovable newsman Lou Grant, first in the hit comedy The Mary Tyler Moore Show and later in the drama Lou Grant, has died aged 91.

Dominic Raab at a committee hearing on Wednesday, said: “The reality is, of course, this isn’t the end of a war, this is a change of nature, a change of style, a change of combatants perhaps even, but it is not the end.” With the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the horizon, Tugendhat said the the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan was “the beginning of a new stage of chaos”.He said: “Because the Taliban is not a single entity. and so nationally this is not over.

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Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello is asking for the public's help in assisting female guitar students out of Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover of the capital city, Kabul. Morello penned an open letter calling attention to his friend and musician Lanny Cordola's "Girl with a Guitar" program, which currently has 12 female guitar students ranging in age from 8 to 17 years old who are stuck in Kabul.

obtained a statement from the State Department that said, “”We did not forget about USAGM employees and their families, nor will we. These employees have served the United States…..We remain keenly focused on getting them out, safely.”USAGM includes outlets like Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

BBC has evacuated a third of its staff and their families from Afghanistan with the help of U.K. government and military.The hundreds of evacuees are now being supported by the corporation and government in the U.K., where they are being processed as refugees.A senior BBC source told Variety last week that the corporation’s focus is on the urgent evacuation of its Afghan reporters.

Kabul fell to the Taliban on 15 August. McDonald, the MP for Glasgow South, challenged Raab repeatedly to say when he had gone on holiday, but the Foreign Secretary would not respond.

Dominic Raab, the Foreign Secretary, in front of MPs today where he will come under strong criticism for leaving behind both British nationals and Afghans who helped the UK.

hurricane cost lives and left more than 1 million homes and businesses in Louisiana and Mississippi without power.Fox News improved its performance from the previous week when it topped all broadcast and cable outlets. But NBC, on the strength of its top-rated “America's Got Talent” and football broadcasts, was the most-watched network.NBC averaged 3.41 million viewers last week.