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• US troops feeling the strain of turning away desperate families at Kabul airport

  23-08-2021 23:59 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Sam Kiley reports on the ongoing evacuation effort at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, ahead of the August 31 deadline.
  
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• Entire Texas town essentially shut down by Covid outbreak

  23-08-2021 23:54 via cnn.com
  
  • FDA grants full approval to Pfizer vaccine
  
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• CDC adds 6 destinations to 'very high' Covid-19 travel risk list, including the Bahamas

  23-08-2021 23:53 via cnn.com
  
  The Bahamas and Morocco are now among the highest-risk destinations for travelers, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's regularly revised travel advisories list.
  
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• Pfizer becomes first Covid vaccine to gain full FDA approval

  23-08-2021 23:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  It is the first Covid jab to receive federal approval, and opens the door to new vaccine mandates.
  
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• Stand to be closed after Nice-Marseille Ligue 1 brawl

  23-08-2021 23:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Authorities in Nice order a four-match stand closure and arrest a 28-year-old man after ugly scenes cause Nice v Marseille to be abandoned on Sunday.
  
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• 'Hours not weeks for UK Afghan evacuation'

  23-08-2021 23:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The defence secretary says the UK will leave Kabul alongside next week's planned US withdrawal.
  
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• 'I'm calling you out': White House press secretary reacts to Fox reporter's question

  23-08-2021 23:32 via cnn.com
  
  White House press secretary Jen Psaki told a reporter that it was "irresponsible" to say that the US is stranding Americans in Afghanistan after the Taliban took over the country.
  
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• 'I'm calling you out': See White House press secretary respond to reporter's question

  23-08-2021 23:32 via cnn.com
  
  White House press secretary Jen Psaki told a reporter that it was "irresponsible" to say that the US is stranding Americans in Afghanistan after the Taliban took over the country.
  
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• Morning mail: debate over Australia’s reopening, Paralympics begin, pandemic purchase regrets

  23-08-2021 23:09
  
  Tuesday: new research calls for 90% vaccination rates before opening Australia. Plus: the pitfalls of online shopping Good morning. The 2020 Paralympic Games begin today and we have stories from some of the 179 Australian athletes competing and all the information on how to watch. Plus plenty on Australia’s Covid vaccination rate and the debate over when it’s safe to reopen the country.Australia’s national plan to end lockdowns once 80% of the adult population is vaccinated cou
  
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• Biden hails ‘key milestone’ in fight against Covid as FDA approves Pfizer vaccine – live

  23-08-2021 22:58
  
  President calls on more companies to issue vaccine mandatesFDA grants full approval to Pfizer coronavirus vaccinePentagon to issue vaccine requirement after FDA’s Pfizer approvalPresident faces criticism over pandemic, infrastructure and AfghanistanSign up to receive First Thing – our daily briefing by email 9.58pm BST Gabrielle Canon here, taking over from San Francisco through the afternoon. Igor Fruman, who was once an associate of Rudy Giuliani, has changed his plea from not guil
  
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• US military gives Biden a deadline on extending evacuations

  23-08-2021 22:55 via cnn.com
  
  The US military is advising President Joe Biden that he must decide by Tuesday whether to extend the evacuation in Afghanistan beyond August 31, according to a defense official directly familiar with the discussions.
  
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• Giant tortoise filmed attacking and killing baby bird – video

  23-08-2021 22:41
  
  A Seychelles giant tortoise, a species previously thought to be a strict herbivore, has been filmed chasing and eating a baby bird. Researchers say it was the first documented example of deliberate hunting in the wild by the species.The video, taken on Fregate Island in July 2020, shows a female giant tortoise slowly stalking a lesser noddy tern chick, snapping at it unsuccessfully before delivering a lethal blow by clamping its jaws directly around its head.‘Horrifying and amazi
  
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• US scrambles to fill intelligence vacuum after rapid Taliban victory

  23-08-2021 22:16 via cnn.com
  
  The rapid Taliban victory in Afghanistan has provided a boost to extremist groups and terror networks and hastened an intelligence vacuum that US officials are now scrambling to fill.
  
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• ‘Who is New Zealand?’: The moment Tampa refugees were told some had a new home | Abbas Nazari

  23-08-2021 22:00
  
  Abbas Nazari was one of 433 refugees rescued by the Norwegian cargo ship in 2001 after leaving Indonesia in an unseaworthy boat with his Afghan family. Twenty years on, he recalls the fear and uncertainty on the TampaWe had been aboard the Tampa for a whole week. With no possessions, we had been wearing the same clothes all this time. On top of the foul stench and the unbearable heat, we were bored to death, sitting cross-legged on the deck for much of the day with absolutely nothing to do, unde
  
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• Cuomo issues farewell with attacks on sexual harassment probe and political rivals

  23-08-2021 21:42 via cnn.com
  
  New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo launched a series of attacks on his political rivals and questioned the motives of state Attorney General Letitia James, the Democrat who oversaw an investigation that found he sexually harassed 11 women, in his farewell address on Monday, less than 12 hours before he leaves office.
  
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• Anti-mask New York Post requires all employees to wear masks

  23-08-2021 21:42 via cnn.com
  
  The New York Post, the Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid that has peddled a high volume of anti-mask rhetoric during the pandemic, informed employees this month that they are required to wear a mask while at the office, according to a memo obtained by CNN Business.
  
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• Analysis: Not even Donald Trump can control the monster he created

  23-08-2021 21:40 via cnn.com
  
  About halfway through Donald Trump's speech in Alabama on Saturday night, something remarkable happened.
  
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• UK scrambles to complete Kabul airlift as envoy flags risk of provoking Taliban

  23-08-2021 21:38
  
  Warnings from senior diplomat that staying past deadline next week would cross ‘red line’Britain has begun a last-ditch scramble to get people out of Kabul amid warnings from the senior diplomat on the ground that staying past the 31 August deadline may not be realistic and risks provoking the Taliban.Speaking to MPs from Kabul, Sir Laurie Bristow, the British ambassador to Afghanistan, said trying to hold Kabul’s airport any longer would be fraught with risk. Continue reading.
  
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• US Capitol Police says fatal shooting of January 6 rioter was 'lawful'

  23-08-2021 21:34 via cnn.com
  
  The US Capitol Police officer who shot and killed pro-Trump rioter Ashli Babbitt on January 6 will not face any disciplinary action, the department said Monday.
  
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• Study shows how sitting for 8 hours a day can affect your stroke risk

  23-08-2021 21:33 via cnn.com
  
  Researchers found the amount of time spent sitting can greatly affect your risk of stroke.
  
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• 'Black Widow' streaming numbers fire up the ScarJo vs Disney lawsuit

  23-08-2021 21:26 via cnn.com
  
  Disney is releasing more details about the financial performance of "Black Widow" as the company pushes to have a lawsuit brought by Scarlett Johansson — the film's star — go to arbitration.
  
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• Josephine Baker will be the first Black woman buried at the Panthéon in Paris

  23-08-2021 21:09 via cnn.com
  
  Legendary Black entertainer Josephine Baker is set to become the first Black woman to have her remains buried in the Panthéon monument in Paris -- one of the highest honors in France.
  
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• Brisbane Easi food delivery driver claims he was fired for raising concerns about pay and safety

  23-08-2021 21:02
  
  The Transport Workers Union has taken the case to the Fair Work Commission, arguing the driver qualifies as an employee, not a contractorGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingA food delivery driver who was allegedly sacked by Chinese food delivery company Easi after trying to raise concerns about pay and worker safety, has had his case taken to the Fair Work Commission by the Transport Workers’ Union.According to the Fair Work claim, Lawrence Du, 35, started working for Easi
  
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• A new king was crowned in Nigeria's oil-rich Delta region and young Nigerians are inspired

  23-08-2021 20:47 via cnn.com
  
  The coronation of a dashing monarch in the oil-rich Delta region has sparked a resurgence in royalty, tradition and ancestry among some young Nigerians.
  
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• Anti-vaccine protesters occupy ITV and Channel 4 News headquarters – video

  23-08-2021 20:37
  
  Anti-vaccine protesters occupied the headquarters of ITV News and Channel 4 News in London on Monday afternoon, in the latest of a series of actions targeting the media.After marching from King’s Cross station to ITN’s headquarters on Gray's Inn Road, protesters were met by two uniformed police officers guarding the building’s revolving doors. However, they were immediately let in through an emergency exit, apparently by a supporter who was already inside the building
  
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• ‘Horrifying and amazing’: giant tortoise filmed attacking and eating baby bird

  23-08-2021 20:35
  
  Chase in Seychelles is first known example of hunting in wild by creaturethought to be herbivoreA Seychelles giant tortoise, a species previously thought to be a strict herbivore, has been filmed chasing and eating a baby bird in a “horrifying and amazing” attack, with researchers stating it was the first documented example of deliberate hunting in the wild by the species. The video, taken on Fregate Island in July 2020, shows a female giant tortoise slowly stalking a lesser noddy te
  
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• Tuesday spacewalk postponed due to 'minor medical issue'

  23-08-2021 20:31 via cnn.com
  
  A spacewalk outside of the International Space Station including NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide has been postponed due to a "minor medical issue," according to NASA.
  
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• Clubs want quarantine exemption before releasing players for duty in red-list countries

  23-08-2021 20:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Premier League sides are among leading European clubs set to prevent players from going to red-list countries for September's international break.
  
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• US Capitol Police says shooting of January 6 rioter was 'lawful'

  23-08-2021 20:26 via cnn.com
  
  The US Capitol Police officer who shot and killed pro-Trump rioter Ashli Babbitt on January 6 will not face any disciplinary action, the department said Monday.
  
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• Israeli strikes on Gaza high-rises may be war crimes - Human Rights Watch

  23-08-2021 20:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Four tower blocks were destroyed by Israeli forces during May's conflict with Palestinian militants.
  
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• What does getting Covid feel like for the fully vaccinated?

  23-08-2021 20:08
  
  The illness can still have a big effect on health and daily life, say three people in their 20s, 40s and 50s, who were double-jabbedCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAs the number of recorded coronavirus infections in the UK rises again, we spoke to three people about their experiences of catching Covid despite having been fully vaccinated, and how it affected their daily lives.Clare Jenkins, 44, from Cambourne, Cambridgeshire, contracted Covid this month after he
  
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• US Capitol police clear officer who shot dead 6 January rioter Ashli Babbitt

  23-08-2021 19:59
  
  Capitol police issue result of investigation into how and why Babbitt was shot as she and others tried to break through doorUS politics – live updatesThe police officer who shot dead Ashli Babbitt during the attack on the US Capitol on 6 January acted lawfully and will not face internal discipline, Capitol police said on Monday. Related: Trump booed after telling supporters to get Covid vaccine Continue reading...
  
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• Iranian government urged to accept western vaccines amid deadly Covid wave

  23-08-2021 19:49
  
  Vaccine supplies close to exhausted in many areas as country gripped by fifth wave and daily death toll risesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe newly elected Iranian government led by President Ebrahim Raisi is facing demands to broaden its sources of vaccines as the country becomes engulfed by its fifth and most deadly wave of Covid-19.The supply of vaccines is said to be close to exhausted in Isfahan and Tabriz, as well as provinces including Gilan, Khuzestan
  
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• This doomed comet had a long history with Earth

  23-08-2021 19:35 via cnn.com
  
  A Comet that intrigued astronomers with its first appearance in our sky at the very end of 2019, but it disintegrated into 30 tiny ice shards months later.
  
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• ‘I opened it and I just started laughing’: the pitfalls of pandemic shopping

  23-08-2021 19:30
  
  From accidentally over ordering, to products that bear no resemblance to their description or photographs, buying everything online has its downsidesWhen Sam Bowker and his partner moved into their new rental, they planned to buy a couch the same way they usually did – with a trip down to the local op-shop.But Covid-19 scuppered this. The Salvation Army was no longer offering delivery services, so after a couple of drinks one evening, Bowker turned to eBay. There he found a “sleek lo
  
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• UK Covid deaths average 100 a day with fears of rise when schools return

  23-08-2021 19:23
  
  Seven-day average now highest since March as children in Scotland return to the classroomCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDeaths from Covid-19 are now averaging 100 a day across the UK, according to official data, and scientists have warned that case rates will jump again when millions of pupils return to schools next week.The seven-day average for deaths within 28 days of a positive test now stands at 100, figures released by Public Health England on Monday show
  
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• Mozambique 'tuna bond' scandal: Ex-President Guebuza's son on trial

  23-08-2021 19:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Mozambique's biggest corruption scandal led donors to cut funding and an economic crisis.
  
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• Fallout engulfs Kamala Harris' first day of Southeast Asia trip

  23-08-2021 19:19 via cnn.com
  
  Vice President Kamala Harris, undertaking a suddenly high-stakes visit to Southeast Asia this week amid the first major foreign policy crisis of the Biden administration, was on the receiving end of questions Monday about the US' withdrawal from Afghanistan for the first time since the chaotic fall of Kabul.
  
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• Covid: Most popular Facebook link in US spread vaccine doubt

  23-08-2021 19:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The social media giant has revealed its most clicked-on links in the first quarter of 2021 in the US.
  
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• FDA on latest right-wing Covid drug claims: 'You are not a horse. You are not a cow'

  23-08-2021 19:09 via cnn.com
  
  Public health officials are aggressively dispelling claims by right-wing media personalities who have been promoting an anti-parasitic drug used for livestock as a potential Covid-19 treatment.
  
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• Afghanistan could start to run out of food by September, UN warns

  23-08-2021 19:02
  
  World Food Programme calls for urgent aid as chaos of Taliban takeover and second drought in three years create dire humanitarian situationUN agencies have warned of food shortages to Afghanistan as early as September without urgent aid funding, as it emerged first aid supplies, including surgical equipment and severe malnutrition kits, were stuck due to restrictions at Kabul airport.The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday the closure of the airport to commercial flights has held up k
  
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• Tokyo Paralympics: A 'different' Games but Paralympians still hope to shine

  23-08-2021 18:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The opening ceremony of the Tokyo Paralympics takes place on Tuesday with the Japanese capital still facing Covid-19 challenges.
  
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• Capitol Police officer who shot and killed Jan. 6 rioter will not face disciplinary action

  23-08-2021 18:55 via cnn.com
  
  The US Capitol Police officer who shot and killed pro-Trump rioter Ashli Babbitt on January 6 will not face any disciplinary action, the department said Monday.
  
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• Afghanistan: what does each nation hope to get out of the G7 meeting?

  23-08-2021 18:53
  
  Analysis: Tuesday’s meeting called by Boris Johnson may include postmortem on Joe Biden’s handling of crisisThe emergency meeting of G7 nations on Tuesday – called by Boris Johnson as this year’s chair of the G7 – is in essence a gathering of the vanquished but faces a threefold agenda: how to ensure as many Afghans as possible can leave Kabul, and whether the US is prepared to stay beyond the original 31 August deadline for the withdrawal of all US forces; how a re
  
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• What it means when cats knead with their paws

  23-08-2021 18:52 via cnn.com
  
  Do you ever see your cat shifting his front paws back and forth just before settling down for a nap? Have you heard some cat lovers talk about their feline friends "making biscuits" or "kneading dough"?
  
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• Taliban says US troops staying beyond deadline 'will provoke reaction' – video

  23-08-2021 18:40
  
  Staying beyond the agreed deadline of 31 August would be 'extending occupation', Taliban spokesperson Suhail Shaheen said on Monday, and this would 'provoke a reaction'.The comments were made after a firefight between unidentified gunmen and US, German and Afghan guards at the airport left one Afghan guard dead and three wounded. Thousands of soldiers have returned to the country to manage the airlifting of foreigners and Afghans who worked with western nations out of the Taliban-controlled coun
  
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• Trump’s border wall reportedly in severe disrepair in Arizona

  23-08-2021 18:33
  
  Photographs published by Gizmodo appear to show sections of the partially constructed wall torn apart by monsoon rainsWhen Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign in 2015 by saying “Nobody builds walls better than me”, it was to say the least a questionable claim.Trump insisted the “great wall” he planned for the southern US border, to keep out unwanted migrants, would be “impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful”. Continue reading...
  
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• WATCH: Animal sanctuary founder cuddles with donkeys at farm

  23-08-2021 18:28
  
  Dean Fagan and his wife Dawn run a donkey farm together where Dean takes time out to shower his donkeys with love.
  
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• Her house separated from the foundation while she and family were inside

  23-08-2021 18:25 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Pamela Brown talks to Tennessee resident Casey Hipshire about her experience when flash flooding hit her area. The floods have left 21 dead and dozens injured.
  
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• Biden hails announcement as FDA gives full approval to Pfizer’s Covid vaccine

  23-08-2021 18:24
  
  Decision is likely to trigger a wave of formal vaccine requirements from government departments, businesses and schoolsThe US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given full approval to the Pfizer vaccine for Covid-19. The vaccine and others have been in use for months under emergency use authorisation. Related: ‘You are not a horse’: FDA tells Americans stop taking dewormer for CovidContinue reading...
  
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