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Afghanistan updates: First US-facilitated evacuation of Americans since US forces departed

(KABUL, Afghanistan) -- With the U.S. military and diplomatic withdrawal now complete after 20 years in Afghanistan, the Taliban has taken over the country, including the Kabul airport, the site of an often-desperate evacuation effort the past two weeks. But even as the last American ...
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Top Belarus opposition leader Maria Kolesnikova sentenced to 11 years

(MOSCOW) -- One of Belarus' top opposition figures, who helped lead massive protests against authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko last year, has been sentenced to 11 years in jail by a court in Minsk. Maria Kolesnikova was one of three women who found themselves at the ...
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Afghanistan updates: Taliban claims victory over Panjshir, last pocket of resistance

(KABUL, Afghanistan) -- With the U.S. military and diplomatic withdrawal now complete after 20 years in Afghanistan, the Taliban has taken over the country, including the Kabul airport, the site of an often-desperate evacuation effort the past two weeks. But even as the last American ...
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Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to resign

(TOKYO) -- Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will not seek re-election as president of the country's Liberal Democratic Party, effectively ending his term as prime minister after just one year. Suga told reporters Friday that he would instead work on policy measures, specifically highlighting efforts ...
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New Zealand police shoot dead ‘ISIS-inspired extremist’ after he stabs six at supermarket

(AUCKLAND, New Zealand) -- New Zealand is reeling from a knife-wielding rampage at a busy Auckland supermarket that left six fighting for their lives and the assailant dead. Authorities have called it a terror attack. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern confirmed that the man behind Friday's ...
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Prince Harry urges governments and pharma companies to end vaccine inequity

(LONDON) -- Prince Harry gave an impassioned speech at an awards ceremony last night, pleading with governments and pharmaceutical companies to do more to vaccinate the world. “Where you’re born should not affect your ability to survive, when the drugs and know-how exist to keep ...
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Historic Afghanistan evacuation wraps up, with fate of those left behind uncertain

(LONDON) -- At one minute before midnight local time on Aug. 31, the last U.S. servicemember was withdrawn from Afghanistan. It marked the end to almost two decades of war and a frantic and heavily criticized evacuation effort prompted by the Taliban rapidly recapturing ...
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A flight they’ll never forget: Afghan evacuation crews recount journey

(WASHINGTON) -- For the thousands of Afghan evacuees bound for the U.S., their rescue flights to America were just one more step in a long journey, but for the airline crews who brought them here -- the flights are the most memorable of their ...
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Inside State Department officials’ scramble to rescue Americans, Afghan partners

(WASHNGTON) -- When the young boy, just 13 or 14 years-old, was safely inside the gates of Kabul's international airport, U.S. State Department officials there asked two questions: Where were his parents? And why was there blood all over his clothes? "He said that somebody ...
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Afghanistan updates: Top Pentagon officials speak to war veterans: ‘It was not in vain’

(KABUL, Afghanistan) -- With the U.S. military and diplomatic withdrawal now complete after 20 years in Afghanistan, the Taliban has taken over the country, including the Kabul airport, the site of an often-desperate evacuation effort the past two weeks. But even as the last American ...
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Afghanistan updates: Taliban celebrates US exit with mock funeral

(KABUL, Afghanistan) -- With the U.S. military and diplomatic withdrawal now complete after 20 years in Afghanistan, the Taliban has taken over the country, including the Kabul airport, the site of an often-desperate evacuation effort the past two weeks. But even as the last American ...
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Afghan migrants trapped for weeks in woods because of Poland and Belarus standoff

(NEW YORK) -- A group of Afghans has been trapped for three weeks at the edge of a forest on the border between Poland and Belarus, caught in a no man's land between Polish security forces who will not let them enter Poland and Belarusian ...
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