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For the first time since the Taliban retook power, a deportation flight to Afghanistan took off from Germany’s Leipzig/Halle Airport on Friday morning, the regional interior ministry said. A Qatar Airways charter jet carrying 28 Afghan offenders who were brought from various states departed from Leipzig, the biggest city in the atate of Saxony, for Kabul at 6:56 am (0456 GMT). The operation was organized by Germany’s federal Interior Ministry. Germany does not maintain diplomatic relations with the Taliban rulers in Kabul. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced that following the deadly knife…

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