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Families evacuated from Kabul, Afghanistan, walk through the terminal before boarding a bus after they arrived at Washington Dulles International Airport, in Chantilly, Virginia.
 

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Huge crowds have formed around Kabul airport in Afghanistan, the last safe route out of the country
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Britain appears to have abandoned plans to establish regional hubs to process Afghans fleeing the Taliban, with migrants likely to be resettled directly from refugee camps in neighbouring countries instead.
 
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Stefanos Tsitsipas and Novak Djokovic are two of tennis’s high profile anti-vaxxers. Photograph: Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters
 

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Lord Botham was made a member of the House of Lords last year
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Ian Botham has been named the UK’s new trade envoy to Australia, 40 years after he helped England to a famous victory in the Ashes. Liz Truss, the international trade secretary, said the former cricketer, who sits as a crossbench peer in the House of Lords, “will do a brilliant job” in a tweet confirming the appointment.
 
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Mr Vovkovinskiy cheers as Barack Obama arrives at a presidential election rally in 2009.: Gett

Igor Vovkovinskiy, the tallest man in the US, has died in Minnesota aged 38. His family said the Ukrainian-born Mr Vovkovinskiy died of heart disease on Friday (local time) at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. His mother, Svetlana Vovkovinska, an ICU nurse at Mayo, initially posted about his death on Facebook.
 
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Extinction Rebellion protesters in Covent Garden block the streets with a giant table, symbolizing their demand for the government to ‘come to the table’. Photograph: Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock
 
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Barney Koneferenisi of New Zealand

New Zealand’s Paralympic team did not participate in the opening ceremony in Tokyo over coronavirus safety fears, as infections surge in the Japanese capital. There are 32 Paralympians on the New Zealand team.
 
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Afghans wait in front of Kabul Bank after they wrested back control of Afghanistan. (AP)

The Taliban ordered banks to open on Wednesday for the first time since they seized control of Kabul 10 days ago, but the country has run out of cash because flights that bring in pallets of banknotes have been halted. The US has frozen nearly $9.5 billion in assets belonging to the Afghan central bank, the International Monetary Fund has blocked access to $450 million in emergency reserves, and flights bringing in humanitarian aid and essential medical supplies have been grounded.
 
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Australian National Geographic Photo Competition finalist
Dance at Dawn by Michael Eastwell, taken at Cape Hillsborough in Queensland. ‘I visited the area for three consecutive sunrises but it was on my final morning that I captured this beautiful spectacle, two wallabies playing on the beach as the sun burst through the surrounding clouds’.
 
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MACRON IN DUBLIN: French president Emmanuel Macron pets President Michael D Higgins’s dog as they meet at Áras an Uachtaráin in Dublin. Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Pool/EPA
 
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Amarilla Veres of Hungary reacts after winning against Jing Rong of China in the women’s epee individual wheelchair fencing at the Tokyo Paralympics. Reuters/Athit Perawongmetha
 
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KABUL ATTACK: Afghans lie on beds at a hospital after they were wounded in the deadly attack outside the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. Photograph: AP Photo/Wali Sabawoon
 
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Ben Wallace, the defence secretary, criticised the Foreign Office yesterday over the botched evacuation of diplomats from the embassy in Kabul after The Times revealed that the identities of Afghan staff were left behind.
 
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Heinz-Christian Strache arrives at court in Vienna
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Heinz-Christian Strache, Austria’s disgraced former vice-chancellor, has been convicted of bribery in the first verdict linked to a spectacular Ibizagate sting operation that exposed corruption at the heart of the government.
 
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Drinking enough water throughout life could reduce the risk of developing heart failure, according to a new study. The team measured 15,792 middle-aged participants’ hydration status by looking at concentrations of sodium in their blood, a marker of how much water they tended to take on board. They then tracked those individuals for 25 years to see whether they developed certain heart problems. “Our study suggests that maintaining good hydration can prevent or at least slow down the changes within the heart that lead to heart failure,” said the study’s author, Dr Natalia Dmitrieva.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/08/210824104113.htm
 
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Mars Rock Rochette
Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech

2021 August 28

Explanation: Taken on mission sol 180 (August 22) this sharp image from a Hazard Camera on the Perseverance rover looks out across a rock strewn floor of Jezero crater on Mars. At 52.5 centimeters (21 inches) in diameter, one of the rover's steerable front wheels is at lower left in the frame. Near center is a large rock nicknamed Rochette. Mission planners don't want to avoid Rochette though. Instead Perseverance will be instructed to reach out with its 2 meter long robotic arm and abrade the rock's surface, to determine whether it has a consistency suitable for obtaining a sample, slightly thicker than a pencil, using the rover's coring bit. Samples collected by Perseverance would be returned to Earth by a future Mars mission.
 
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A destroyed vehicle is seen inside a house after a U.S. drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021. A U.S. drone strike destroyed a vehicle carrying "multiple suicide bombers" from Afghanistan's Islamic State affiliate on Sunday before they could attack the ongoing military evacuation at Kabul's international airport, American officials said. (AP Photo/Khwaja Tawfiq Sediqi)

 
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A former minister said Fawad Andarabi was “simply bringing joy to this valley and its people”
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Taliban fighters have shot dead an Afghan folk singer after it outlawed music and women’s voices on television and radio in the bellwether province of Kandahar, laying the ground for a nationwide ban in an echo of the brutal Islamist regime of 20 years ago. Fawad Andarabi was dragged from his home and shot in the head in the village of Andarab, north of Kabul on Friday, his family said. The murder has provoked an outcry and fuelled fears of a return to the repressive regime of the 1990s since Taliban fighters overran Kabul two weeks ago.
 
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“We have crossed another milestone, where 80% of our population has received their full regimen of two doses,” Singapore’s Health Minister Ong Ye Kung said in a Facebook post on Sunday. That gives the tiny city-state the world’s highest rate of complete vaccinations, according to a tracker by the Reuters news agency.
 

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