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The Independent's Morning Headlines email [The Independent]( April 13, 2023 [View online](   [Morning Headlines]( 1 / [RAF chief backs our campaign: We must give asylum to Afghan pilot who risked his life for us]( An Afghan pilot threatened with deportation to Rwanda must be offered a “safe haven” in the UK, the former head of RAF forces in Afghanistan has said. Air Marshal Edward Stringer, who was also director of operations at the Ministry of Defence, has backed The Independent’scampaign to grant the Afghan veteran asylum – saying: “Now is the time for us to demonstrate the decency on which we so pride ourselves”. In an op-ed drawing on his years of experience, Air Marshal Stringer described the real risk to life that faces those Afghans who served alongside coalition forces. “Many of those in the Afghan forces served with distinction alongside us – and the Taliban will never forget that,” he said. “We owe them all a debt of honour and should offer them asylum, and the security we promised them, in the UK – not least because we could not guarantee them safety and security in Afghanistan.” Air Marshal Stringer led the 904 Expeditionary Air Wing in Afghanistan in 2008 working with Nato and Afghan forces and was also the director general of the UK’s Joint Force Development, training across the military. He continued: “The Taliban knows as well as we do that we helped train the Afghan pilots (I remember vividly the start of that mission in Kandahar in 2008) and we should stand by those brave men – like the pilot The Independent is campaigning for – now.”   2 / [Joe Biden says Brexit deal can bring ‘significant’ US investment to Northern Ireland]( US president calls for return of powersharing – as his advisers reject DUP’s ‘anti-British’ claims 3 / [Prince Harry to attend coronation without Meghan, Buckingham Palace announces]( Duchess of Sussex to remain in California with couple’s two children, Archie and Lilibet 4 / [Record 190,000 patients waiting for autism diagnosis by 2024 with ‘devastating’ consequences]( Exclusive: NHS autism service ‘crisis’ will leave tens of thousands of patients without diagnosis 5 / [Ten-man Chelsea escape with hope after a Champions League lesson by Real Madrid]( Real Madrid 2-0 Chelsea: Ben Chilwell was sent off as the Blues fell to a quarter-final first leg defeat against the reigning champions – but at least the tie is still alive THE BIG QUESTION [What are 6 of the biggest claims about the royal family in new King Charles biography?]( A new biography about [King Charles III](, authored by royal biographer Robert Jobson, is set to be released on Thursday 13 April. The book, titled Our King Charles III: The Man and the Monarch Revealed, charts the new monarch’s trajectory from his birth to his ascension to the throne, which took place after the death of Queen Elizabeth II last year. According to his publisher, Jobson set out to reveal “the real man behind the crown” and examine Charles’s “passions, purpose and motivations” as the UK gears up for the coronation on 6 May. The author “considers the life of the man and the monarch, reflecting on how his values and beliefs will shape him as he takes on this monumental role. It also contains new claims about members of the [royal family]( and about Charles’s personal feelings on how certain events in his life have unfolded. 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