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David Cameron faces pressure to justify Afghanistan troop presence
Afghanistan faces ‘vital year’, Cameron warns

By politics.co.uk staff David Cameron has said 2010 is a “vital year” in which success or failure will become much clearer for Afghanistan, on his first visit as prime minister to the country. The Conservative leader flew in on an RAF aircraft before engaging in talks with president Hamid Karzai in Kabul. He announced plans… Read more »

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Refugee groups are outraged that children would be deported to a war zone
Anger at plans to deport children to Afghanistan

By politics.co.uk staff Migrant groups reacted furiously to plans to deport children back to Afghanistan today. The UK Border Agency wants to set up £4 million ‘reintergration centres’ in Afghanistan, according to the Guardian, to which unaccompanied asylum seeker children can be sent. The centres would help satisfy EU regulations insisting that unaccompanied child asylum… Read more »