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Tuesday 31 August 2021
With no American presence, some Afghans celebrate while others worry about the future.
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Young British star Emma Raducanu notches her first U.S. Open main draw victory.
By BY BEN ROTHENBERG from NYT Sports https://ift.tt/2WJ2lXB
The Taliban Celebrate Victory, With a Crisis Looming
By BY JIM HUYLEBROEK, NAJIM RAHIM AND ERIC NAGOURNEY from NYT World https://ift.tt/3BqPsQE
Social Security is projected to be insolvent a year earlier than previously forecast.
By BY ALAN RAPPEPORT AND MARGOT SANGER-KATZ from NYT Business https://ift.tt/3Dx0B4j
In a few pockets of Afghanistan, resistance fighters are still opposing the Taliban.
By BY SHARIF HASSAN AND JIM HUYLEBROEK from NYT World https://ift.tt/3DBUtaP
Teenage Lifeguard Killed in Lightning Strike: ‘It Was Like a Bomb’
By BY ASHLEY WONG from NYT New York https://ift.tt/38t4EAh
Huracanes y cambio climático: esto es lo que sabemos
By BY VERONICA PENNEY from NYT en Español https://ift.tt/2WHlLfh
Reflections on Our Summer Reading Contest and Our Final Week of Winners
By BY NATALIE PROULX from NYT The Learning Network https://ift.tt/3ywJsnD
College Football Changes: More 2-Point Tries and a Crackdown on Stadium Gamesmanship
By BY ALAN BLINDER from NYT Sports https://ift.tt/3mOFiFx
This Is the Moment the Anti-Vaccine Movement Has Been Waiting for
By BY TARA HAELLE from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/3jxvtcV
Bangladeshi manufacturers criticize the expansion of a deal to protect workers.
By BY ELIZABETH PATON from NYT Business https://ift.tt/3kIOkkr
There’s a Better Way to Stop Ransomware Attacks
By BY PAUL ROSENZWEIG from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/3BvP17Q
Revocatoria a Gavin Newsom: una guía para los votantes
By BY JILL COWAN AND SHAWN HUBLER from NYT en Español https://ift.tt/3jz4k9D
Governors DeSantis and Abbott, ‘Undermining Public Health’
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Downed lines are making it hard for Entergy to restore power in Louisiana.
By BY IVAN PENN AND PETER EAVIS from NYT Business https://ift.tt/3kCTUFf
The U.S. faces a series of dilemmas in dealing with a Taliban government.
By BY MAX FISHER from NYT World https://ift.tt/3BpMjR9
Australian health authorities warn against mixing Covid vaccine types
Concerns raised that some people may be cancelling their second AstraZeneca dose hoping to obtain a shot of Pfizer instead
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The evidence is strongest for receiving two doses of the same Covid-19 vaccine, rather than mixing different types, medical authorities have said amid concerns that some people may be cancelling their second AstraZeneca dose in the hope of securing a shot of Pfizer.
As outbreaks of the Delta variant affect New South Wales and Victoria, people are being urged by state premiers and health authorities to get vaccinated as soon as possible with whatever vaccine is available, and to show up to their existing first and second-dose appointments.
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UK furlough scheme must stay for Covid-hit industries, warn unions and firms
As job subsidy programme nears its end calls are growing to target help at badly affected sectors such as aviation
The furlough scheme should be extended to protect workers in industries that continue to be damaged by the pandemic, business groups and unions have said as the job subsidy programme that has supported more than 11m employees entered its final month.
Aviation industry workers and staff at Britain’s airports should be allowed to remain on furlough until next year when travel restrictions are likely to be lifted and the airline industry returns to normal, they said.
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Female journalist who interviewed Taliban flees
Beheshta Arghand, who made headlines when she interviewed the Taliban, has spoken out after fleeing the country.
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Afghanistan: How can the West stop terror bases?
The foreign secretary says the UK will fight ISIS by all means available - but what does that mean?
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Monday 30 August 2021
Howie Rose Steps Away From Mets, but Plans to Return Next Year
By BY DAVID WALDSTEIN from NYT Sports https://ift.tt/3DovqrI
With a Tuesday withdrawal deadline for U.S. troops, hope dwindles for Afghans to flee via the airport.
By BY JIM HUYLEBROEK from NYT World https://ift.tt/3mMuTtG
White House Weighs Clemency to Keep Some Drug Offenders Confined at Home
By BY ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS AND CHARLIE SAVAGE from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3sXhQH0
The world is still short of everything. Get used to it.
By BY PETER S. GOODMAN AND KEITH BRADSHER from NYT World https://ift.tt/3yoUmvy
A university in Bangladesh evacuates almost 150 young women from Kabul.
By BY ISABELLA KWAI from NYT World https://ift.tt/2WGltoU
New York’s Brief Hot Restaurant Summer: Bread Binges and Tabletop Coke
By BY BECKY HUGHES from NYT Food https://ift.tt/3ytNY6q
E. U. Proposes New Travel Restrictions on Unvaccinated U.S. Visitors
By BY ELIAN PELTIER from NYT World https://ift.tt/38mT8qa
EU removes six countries including US from Covid safe travel list
Travellers from Israel, Kosovo, Lebanon, Montenegro, and North Macedonia also affected by move
The EU has removed six countries, including the US, from a Covid “white list” of places whose tourists should be permitted entry without restrictions such as mandatory quarantine.
A majority of EU countries had reopened their borders to Americans in June, in the hope of salvaging the summer tourism season although most required a negative test ahead of travel. The move was not, however, reciprocated by the US.
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20 of the best places to stay in Italy
With the five-day quarantine requirement lifted, we pick gorgeous affordable hotels, villas and farm stays on the coast, mountains and islands
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WHO expects 236,000 more Covid deaths in Europe by 1 December – video
Senior officials at the World Health Organization have cited stagnating vaccination rates and low uptake in poorer countries as reasons so many Covid deaths are predicted.
'Last week, there was an 11% increase in the number of deaths in the region – one reliable projection is expecting 236,000 deaths in Europe, by 1 December,' WHO Europe director Hans Kluge said.
Kluge attributed the higher transmission to the spread of the more transmissible Delta variant, an 'exaggerated easing' of restrictions and measures, and a surge in summer travel.
While about half of people in Europe are fully vaccinated, vaccination uptake in the region has slowed, Kluge said.
Europe has registered about 1.3 million Covid deaths
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Afghanistan drone strike: 'Ten people died here.. including my daughter'
A family comb through rubble for remains of relatives they say were killed by a US drone strike.
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La variante delta se infiltró en un aula de primaria. Así sucedió
By BY SABRINA IMBLER AND EMILY ANTHES from NYT en Español https://ift.tt/3kJ4L0u
After Kabul Bombing, Some in the U.S. Feel Numbed, but Are Focused Inward: ‘Not Our War to Fight Anymore’
By BY JENNIFER MEDINA from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/38pAOfV
When the ‘Silent Majority’ Isn’t White
By BY JAY CASPIAN KANG from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/3gJ3GnS
New data confirm Pfizer and Moderna vaccines bring a small risk of heart problems, especially for boys and younger men.
By BY EMILY ANTHES from NYT Health https://ift.tt/3gIgz1O
Human Most of All: In Moscow, a Theater Stages ‘Gorbachev’
By BY IVAN NECHEPURENKO from NYT Theater https://ift.tt/2WwCqls
MPs trying to rescue more than 7,000 people trapped in Afghanistan
Figure dwarfs 800 to 1,100 Afghans eligible for resettlement defence secretary said would be left behind
MPs are scrambling to rescue more than 7,000 constituents and family members trapped in Afghanistan, according to figures provided to the Guardian, dwarfing the only estimates provided by the government of the number left behind.
Scores of Labour MPs have been inundated with pleas for help from thousands of constituents whose relatives have been left stranded since the UK’s final emergency airlift left Kabul following the country’s rapid fall to the Taliban. Among them are children, disabled relatives and people who face persecution due to their work, all with potential eligibility to be resettled in Britain.
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Afghan left behind by UK: I'm fighting to stay alive
An Afghan who had authorisation to fly to the UK speaks to the BBC about his struggle to escape.
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Sunday 29 August 2021
Ida leaves behind flooding and dangerous storm surge.
By BY MELINA DELKIC from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3sXz5rM
Tropical Storm Nora Unleashes Rain and Flash Floods in Mexico
By BY ALYSSA LUKPAT from NYT World https://ift.tt/3jrpJkN
Two of the U.S. service members killed in the Kabul attack were women.
By BY DAVE PHILIPPS from NYT World https://ift.tt/3mKxrsq
American University of Kabul students and alumni trying to flee were sent home.
By BY FARNAZ FASSIHI from NYT World https://ift.tt/3sUvJG2
When Will Biden Join the Fight for Voting Rights?
By BY ADAM JENTLESON from NYT Opinion https://ift.tt/2Y2TvEh
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry: a limitless genius who took Jamaica into the future
By deeply connecting with the people and idyllic landscape of his island, Perry channelled a stream of ideas into mindblowing music
“Until reggae it was all Kingston … Kingston, Kingston, Kingston! Ska? … Rocksteady? … they were Kingston things with the same Kingston men doing the same Kingston things.”
Lee “Scratch” Perry – who has died aged 85 – was talking me through perhaps the most significant gear change in the earlier years of Jamaican music – and was understandably animated, even by his own hyperactive standards.
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Jamaican reggae icon Lee 'Scratch' Perry dies aged 85
Perry, a legendary singer and music producer, is known for his pioneering experiments with dub.
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Biden Observes Return of Troops Killed in Kabul Bombing
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Hundreds of thousands of customers are without power. It could be weeks before they have it back.
By BY TARIRO MZEZEWA from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3ylZz7q
After Katrina, New Orleans became a fortress. Ida is testing its strength.
By BY CHRISTOPHER FLAVELLE from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3gJbS7M
Ed Asner, who played Lou Grant in two hit shows, dies aged 91
- Actor shone in The Mary Tyler Moore Show and spin-off
- Spell as Screen Actors Guild president ended over liberal views
Ed Asner, a burly and prolific character actor who became a star in middle age as the gruff but lovable newsman Lou Grant, first in the hit comedy The Mary Tyler Moore Show and later in the drama Lou Grant, died on Sunday. He was 91.
Asner’s representative confirmed the actor’s death. His official Twitter account included a note from his children: “We are sorry to say that our beloved patriarch passed away this morning peacefully. Words cannot express the sadness we feel. With a kiss on your head- Goodnight dad. We love you.”
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Recovery in global trade hit by Covid outbreaks in east Asia
Decline in exports from Taiwan combines with port closures in China and Japan to hinder growth
A recovery in global trade during the summer is beginning to wane, according to some early warning signs pointing to the negative effects of widespread Covid-19 outbreaks in the manufacturing centres of east Asia.
A dramatic decline in exports from Taiwan, which makes many of the computer chips used in cars and mobile phones, has combined with temporary port closures and lockdowns in Australia, China and Japan to cut the level of global trade.
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Derek Bromley to make one last bid for freedom after nearly 40 years in jail for murder
He has been eligible for release since 2017 but has remained in prison because he consistently denies committing the crime
A man who has spent almost 40 years in prison in South Australia for a murder he says he did not commit will soon make a final bid for freedom.
Derek Bromley was jailed for life for the murder of Stephen Docoza, whose body was found floating in Adelaide’s River Torrens in 1984.
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Hurricane Ida Makes Landfall in Louisiana as a Category 4
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On the road to Kabul, hundreds of families can’t go home and wait for help.
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As the virus surges in Oregon, counties are asking for mobile morgues to house the dead.
By BY MATT RICHTEL, SERGIO OLMOS AND MIKE BAKER from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3ksVYiM
Ron DeSantis, How Many Covid Deaths Are Enough?
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Ida Strengthened Quickly Into a Monster. Here’s How.
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Missile and drone attack kills at least 30 in south Yemen
At least three explosions took place at al-Anad airbase, officials said
A missile and drone attack on a key military base in south Yemen has killed at least 30 troops, a Yemeni military spokesman said. It was one of the deadliest attacks in the country’s civil war in recent years.
Mohammed al-Naqib, the spokesman for Yemen’s southern forces, said the attack on Sunday on al-Anad airbase in the province of Lahj wounded at least 65. He said the casualty toll could rise since rescue teams were still clearing the site.
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‘This is our final’: the team who led athletes’ escape from Afghanistan | Suzanne Wrack
A dedicated crew of people helped the women’s national football team and others flee the Taliban over two remarkable weeks
“We have been working like fingers on one hand, with different roles, and we came together as a big strong punch,” says the former captain and one of the founders of the Afghanistan women’s national football team, Khalida Popal. She is talking about the small team that pulled off the mission to evacuate 100-200 Afghan athletes and a number of individuals connected to them from the Hamid Karzai international airport in Kabul.
Across a two-week period those fingers worked tirelessly around the clock and across numerous time zones, tracking the real-time movements of the Taliban and military personnel on the ground to pull off what seemed completely impossible: to get a group of female football players, many teenagers, and a host of others, including family members, into the airport and on to planes.
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From Captain Invincible to Cleverman: the weird and wild history of Australian superheroes
They’re big business … in Hollywood. But did you know Australia also has a small but rich seam of compelling and bizarre superhero movies?
The phrase “nobody makes superhero movies like Australia” has, I dare say, never before been written. Our humble government-subsidised film and TV industry is no more than a lemonade stand in the shadow of Hollywood’s arena spectacular, unable to compete budget-wise with the deep pockets of Tinseltown or produce bombast on the scale of American studios.
But scratch the surface of Australian film and TV history and you will find a small but rich vein of super strange locally made superhero productions with their own – forgive me – true blue je ne sais quoi. Their eclecticism and off-kilter energy provides a refreshing counterpoint to the risk-averse kind falling off the Hollywood assembly line.
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Jacob Blake Jr, paralysed in Kenosha police shooting, expects to walk again
- Blake describes lasting trauma since being shot last August
- Illinois man Kyle Rittenhouse charged over protest deaths
Jacob Blake Jr, the Wisconsin man who was left paralyzed from the waist down after he was shot by a white police officer last year, expects to be walking soon – an accomplishment he says is tempered by fears of it happening again.
Related: There are two justice systems in America. Ask my nephew, Jacob Blake | Justin Blake
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Saturday 28 August 2021
Sixteen years after Katrina, a New Orleans resident sees just partial progress.
By BY RICHARD FAUSSET from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3BoxPke
Chelsea Proves a Point While Collecting One at Liverpool
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Evacuees from Afghanistan arrive in Virginia, tired, relieved, and worried for those they left behind.
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