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The Latest: UN statement would urge end to Taliban offensive

JUSTIN MARK August 13, 2021 No Comments

**AUG 13, 2021 @ 1830 GMT** | Internally displaced Afghans from northern provinces, who fled their home due to fighting between the Taliban and Afghan security personnel, take refuge in a public park Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. The Taliban have completed their sweep of the country’s south on Friday, as they took four more provincial capitals in a lightning offensive that is gradually encircling Kabul, just weeks before the U.S. is set to officially end its two-decade war. **(AP Photo)**

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Security Council members are considering a proposed statement that would urge an immediate end to the Taliban offensive and warn that the U.N.’s most powerful body will not support any government in Afghanistan imposed by military force or restoration of the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate that ruled the country from 1996 to 2001.

The proposed presidential statement, a step below a resolution, would also condemn the Taliban’s attacks on cities and towns across Afghanistan “in the strongest terms” and reaffirm that there is no military solution to the conflict in Afghanistan.

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Thai police fire rubber bullets, tear gas at protesters

JUSTIN MARK August 13, 2021 No Comments

**AUG 13, 2021 @ 1700 GMT** | An anti-government protester tries to control smoke from a tear gas canister fired by riot police during a protest in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. Protesters demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha for what they say is his failure in handling the COVID-19 pandemic.(AP Photo)

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — Police in Thailand’s capital fired rubber bullets and tear gas on Friday to stop hundreds of protesters who were attempting to march to the prime minister’s residence to demand he resign over his handling of the country’s coronavirus crisis.

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Scientists fear UK COVID cases may surge after summer lull

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**AUG 12, 2021 @ 1145 GMT | FILE** – In this file photo dated Monday, July 19, 2021, people sit on an Underground train in London, as face masks and social distancing rules are relaxed along with limits on the number of people attending theater performances or big events. As Britain enjoys a summertime lull in COVID-19 cases, August 2021, the nation’s attention has turned to the end of pandemic-related restrictions and holidays in the sun, but scientists are warning the public not to be complacent about the delta variant. **(AP File Photo)**

LONDON, United Kingdom (AP) — As Britain enjoyed a summertime lull in COVID-19 cases, the nation’s attention turned to the end of pandemic-related restrictions and holidays in the sun.

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Germany, Netherlands suspend deportations to Afghanistan

JUSTIN MARK August 11, 2021 No Comments

**AUG 11, 2021 @ 1745 GMT** | Taliban fighters and Afghans gather around the body of a member of the security forces who was killed, inside the city of Farah, capital of Farah province, southwest Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021. Afghan officials say three more provincial capitals have fallen to the Taliban, putting nine out of the country’s 34 in the insurgents’ hands amid the U.S. withdrawal. The officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the capitals of Badakhshan, Baghlan and Farah provinces all fell. (AP Photo)

BERLIN, Germany (AP) — Germany and the Netherlands have suspended any deportations of migrants to Afghanistan due to the tense security situation as Taliban insurgents make sweeping gains in the Central Asian country.

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Chinese, Russian militaries hold drills in northwest China

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**AUG 10, 2021 @ 0900 GMT | FILE** – In this Aug. 13, 2007, file photo, a convoy of Chinese APCs roll by during a rehearsal for a massive joint military exercise by the two former Cold War rivals, the first on Russia’s territory in the Chelyabinsk region in Russia’s Ural Mountains. Chinese and Russian military forces are engaged in joint exercises through Friday, Aug. 13, 2021, in northwestern China as ties grow between the two autocratic states amid uncertainty over instability in Afghanistan. (AP File Photo)

BEIJING, China (AP) — Chinese and Russian military forces are engaged in joint exercises in northwestern China as ties grow between the two autocratic states amid uncertainty over instability in Afghanistan.

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Nagasaki marks 76th anniversary of atomic bombing

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**AUG 9, 2021 @ 1500 GMT** | Attendees offer a silent prayer during a ceremony at Nagasaki Peace Park in Nagasaki, southern Japan Monday, Aug. 9, 2021. The Japanese city of Nagasaki on Monday marked its 76th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing. (Kyodo News via AP)

TOKYO, Japan (AP) — Nagasaki on Monday marked the 76th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the Japanese city with its mayor urging Japan, the United States and Russia to do more to eliminate nuclear weapons.

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Taliban takes key northern Afghan cities as battles rage on

JUSTIN MARK August 8, 2021 No Comments

**AUG 8, 2021 @ 1845 GMT** | A Taliban flag flies in the main square of Kunduz city after fighting between Taliban and Afghan security forces, in Kunduz, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021. Taliban fighters Sunday took control of much of the capital of northern Afghanistan’s Kunduz province, including the governor’s office and police headquarters, a provincial council member said. **(AP Photo)**

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban fighters seized most of the capital of northern Afghanistan’s key Kunduz province on Sunday, and took another neighboring provincial capital after a monthlong siege. The advances were the latest in a series of blows to government forces as U.S. troops complete their pullout after nearly two decades in the country.

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Some in US getting COVID-19 boosters without FDA approval

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**AUG 7, 2021 @ 1730 GMT | FILE** – In this Jan. 15, 2021, file photo, Dr. Yomaris Pena, Internal Medicine Physician with Somos Community Care at a COVID-19 extracts the last bit of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine out of a vial so as not to waste it at a vaccination site at the Corsi Houses in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York. An untold number of Americans have managed to get COVID-19 booster shots even though the U.S. government hasn’t approved them. They’re doing so by taking advantage of the nation’s vaccine surplus and loose tracking of those who have been fully vaccinated. **(AP Photo)**

DENVER, United States (AP) — When the delta variant started spreading, Gina Welch decided not to take any chances: She got a third, booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine by going to a clinic and telling them it was her first shot.

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Hezbollah, Israel trade fire in dangerous Mideast escalation

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**AUG 6, 2021 @ 1430 GMT** | Israeli forces fire artillery from their position on the border with Lebanon after a barrage of rockets were fired from Lebanon, Friday, Aug. 6, 2021. The militant Hezbollah group said it fired rockets near Israeli positions close to the Lebanese border, calling it retaliation for Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon a day earlier. **(JINIPIX via AP)**

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — The militant Hezbollah group fired a barrage of rockets toward Israel on Friday, and Israel hit back with artillery in a significant escalation between the two sides.

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Officer dead, suspect killed in violence outside Pentagon

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**AUG 4, 2021 @ 1430 GMT | FILE** – This March 27, 2008, file photo, shows the Pentagon in Washington. **(AP File Photo)**

WASHINGTON, United States (AP) — A Pentagon police officer died after being stabbed Tuesday during a burst of violence at a transit center outside the building, and a suspect was shot by law enforcement and died at the scene.

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