The Netherlands must allow 42 Afghans who worked as security guards in the Dutch embassy in Kabul to enter the country, a court ruled on Tuesday. The former staff said they were in danger in Afghanistan under the Taliban's rule. In its reasoning, the district court in The Hague stated that the Netherlands had not sufficiently fulfilled its duty of care towards them and had therefore acted unlawfully. According to the ruling, the Afghans must undergo the standard asylum screening procedures upon arrival. This also applies to their partners and dependent children under the age of 18, who are per...

Eighteen people have died and more than 100 have been injured as a result of artillery fire on the besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan's North Darfur region, according to the Sudan Doctors Network. The network attributed the attack to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) which have surrounded the city in the war-torn country. The information could not be independently verified. El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, is the last city in the region still under government control. Since May last year, it has been under siege by the RSF, which has been accused of atrocities, ethnic cleansing and war cr...

Volkswagen chief executive Oliver Blume must step down from his second position as the boss of luxury carmaker Porsche, the VW works council said on Tuesday. At a works meeting at the German carmaking giant's headquarters in Wolfsburg, the council's chairwoman, Daniela Cavallo, said Blume "cannot be a half-day boss and spend the rest of his time at Porsche." "This situation must end," she said. The comments, carried in an internal report seen by dpa, come months after top investors in VW demanded Blume's resignation from Porsche, which is a Volkswagen subsidiary. Having headed the premium Pors...

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