Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani emerges in the UAE
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Afghanistan's former President Ashraf Ghani is in the United Arab Emirates, its foreign ministry said in a statement Wednesday. News of his whereabouts comes days after he fled Kabul as the Taliban closed in on the city.
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