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Republicans lambasted Joe Biden for 'going on vacation' on Sunday as he remained silent on Afghanistan while the capital city of Kabul was overrun by the Taliban and the president hunkered down at Camp David. 'First thing's first, why is Joe Biden on vacation, why hasn't his administration taken a single question? This is an embarrassment,' Ohio Representative Jim Jordan told Fox News's Sunday Morning Futures. The Republican congressman and Trump ally also tweeted on Sunday: 'America's in crisis. Afghanistan's in chaos. Why's Joe Biden on vacation?' Biden sent out a statement on Saturday afternoon on the unfolding crisis – where he announced 5,000 troops would be deployed to help with evacuations and also blamed predecessor Donald Trump for the disastrous withdrawal. Since then, the president has not released any written or verbal statements or remarks.  The White House did, however, tweet an image of Biden being briefed via video chat at

China, Russia, Pakistan and Turkey all appear set to formally recognise Taliban rule in neighbouring Afghanistan after the Islamist terror group seized the Presidential Palace in Kabul on Sunday and the country's embattled president fled for Tajikistan. Most global powers are reluctant to recognise the rule of the militant group overthrown by US-led coalition forces in 2001, with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warning that Afghanistan cannot be allowed to become a 'breeding ground for terror' again.  But Beijing and Islamabad could break rank in order to form closer ties with the likely new government, with Chinese state media preparing its people to accept the likely scenario that the ruling Communist Party might have to recognise the Islamist group.   In China, a series of photos were published last month by state media showing Foreign Minister Wang Yi standing shoulder to shoulder with visiting Taliban officials decked out in traditional tunic and turban in Tianjin

Hundreds of former Afghan military translators for UK forces fear being abandoned to face the revenge of the Taliban as the frenzied scramble to leave Kabul intensified yesterday. Men who risked their lives beside British forces described panic and confusion as they watched heavily-armed Taliban fighters on the streets outside their homes in the city’s suburbs. Campaigners estimate that around 200 former translators who worked over the last two decades for UK forces may not be rescued – for many because their claim for relocation was rejected – even if the ‘freedom flights’ are able to continue. Including their families, this leaves up to 1,000 men, women and children who could miss the chance of a deserved new life in Britain and instead be left to the brutal mercy of the Taliban.  Former Afghan interpreter Wazir, 31, and his family fled Kabul with other refugees Government sources said that a total of around 1,700 ‘former locally employed staff and their families’ have been told th

Dr Anthony Fauci has dismissed a preliminary study whose findings suggest a Moderna shot is more effective at preventing a COVID Delta infection than a Pfizer one. Asked about the study - done by biotech firm nfrence, which is based at the prestigious Mayo Clinic and Cambridge, Massachusetts, the White House COVID tsar said: 'That study … is a pre-print study, it hasn't been fully peer-reviewed.' Speaking on CBS's Face the Nation, Fauci added: 'I don't doubt what they're seeing, but there are a lot of confounding variables in there, about when one was started, the relative amount of people in that cohort who were Delta vs Alpha – right now, if we get boosters … it's clear we want to make sure we get people, if possible, to get the boost from the original vaccine.'  The study was shared on medrvix last week - a site which publishes preliminary findings, before they have been peer-reviewed and rubber stamped. Dr Anthony Fauci, pictured in July, has urg

Tougher lockdown restrictions including jacked up fines and travel limits are now in place across Greater Sydney as officials battle to bring the region's spiralling Covid crisis under control.  From Monday, thousands of NSW police will enforce strict new coronavirus regulations for the locked-down state to ensure compliance with stay at home orders.  Greater Sydney residents are banned from travelling more than five kilometres from their home without a reasonable, with officers able to impose fines up to $5000 for breaching public health orders.  NSW Police Minister David Elliott said he is confident the tighter measures will prevent rule-breakers from 'gaming the system'. 'I was putrid about the way people were ignoring health rules because there were so many loopholes,' he told Sunrise. 'I was delighted that over the last week the Commissioner and I pleaded a case and the health orders have been changed.' NSW Police Minister David Elliott said he is co