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Kabul, Afghanistan
Taliban members drive through the city centre
Photograph: Bülent Kılıç/AFP/Getty Images
 

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Mexico City, Mexico
A reptile collector, Jaime Sanchez, holds a seven-year-old green anaconda and one of its 19 snakelets, all of which were born in captivity. The snake species, native to South America, is the heaviest in the world
Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
 
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Lebanese army special forces soldiers assist teachers as they flee their school after deadly clashes erupted nearby along a former 1975-90 civil war front-line between Muslim Shiite and Christian areas at Ain el-Remaneh neighborhood, in Beirut, Lebanon.
 
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Almost six million people are waiting for hospital treatment in England, with doctors warning that the NHS will soon only be able to focus on patients who are critically unwell. A record 5.7 million people were waiting to start routine treatment at the end of August.
Source: The Times
 
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The facial technology is able to recognise passengers even if they are wearing hats or masks

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Commuters on the Moscow metro will be able to pay for their journeys at a glance with the introduction of the world’s most extensive facial recognition system for payments today, despite concerns about the “Orwellian” surveillance tools being deployed in the Russian capital. The system, named Face Pay, allows users to look into a camera at special entrance turnstiles fitted in the metro’s 241 stations, instead of tapping in with a bank or metro card.
 
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WARSAW/BERLIN, (Reuters) - Poland plans to spend over 1.6 billion zlotys ($404 million) on building a wall on its border with Belarus.

Yesterday (Thursday) the lower chamber of parliament voted through plans to build the wall. That day 682 people tried illegally to enter Poland — almost six times the figure for the whole of last year. It also passed legislation that activists say aims to legalise the pushing of migrants back across the border, something not permitted by international law.
 
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Participants pose nude for American art photographer Spencer Tunick, working on a photo installation in the desert landscape surrounding the southeastern Israeli city of Arad, some 15 kilometre west of the Dead Sea. About 300 participants have registered to be part of the nude photo installation, designed to draw world attention to the importance of preserving and restoring the Dead Sea, a unique natural resource and one of Israels most famous tourist attractions
Photograph: Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images

And this is why https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-10/the-disappearing-dead-sea-sinkhole-science-en-gedi/100123858
 
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The prime minister went to Leigh-on-Sea to the place where MP David Amess was murdered.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer also laid flowers at the scene of Sir David's death.
There are many others that have paid tribute to Sir David. https://news.sky.com/story/sir-davi...t-to-much-loved-colleague-and-friend-12435299
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So it seems that radicalized Islam is still out there, such a shocking end for this good man.
 
Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell dies of COVID-19 complications

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His family announced his death in a statement posted to Facebook.

"He was fully vaccinated," they said. "We want to thank the medical staff at Walter Reed National Medical Center for their caring treatment.

He was such a favourite of presidents that he earned the Presidential Medal of Freedom — twice. He was highly respected at home and abroad.

Full story.
 
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The Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) member-nations — Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore and the United Kingdom — marked 50 years of the defence pact with a flypast and naval display off waters near Marina South on Oct 18, 2021.ST PHOTO: KUA CHEE SIONG
 
RnR said:
Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell dies of COVID-19

His family announced his death in a statement posted to Facebook.
"He was fully vaccinated," they said. "We want to thank the medical staff at Walter Reed National Medical Center for their caring treatment.
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(Trying to be mindful of 'no politics' won't mention names or specific details )
When he spoke in the United Nations regarding Iraq's alleged nuclear weapons-the director of the CIA had spent the entire weekend
with him, coaching him on 'the truth.'
Powell assumed he now had the truth and offered this information to U N.
The information he had received was rumors and half-truths which damaged the reputation of this man of dignity and courage.

He will be missed
 
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Jessica Van Ord, a park official, leaves a fissure after she rescued a 12-year-old dog found trapped after five days deep inside the narrow rocky crevice at Minnewaska state park preserve
Photograph: AP
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That dog looks like a Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier. Below is a link to another story about a Wheaten who was rescued. The dog was acquired by a US-based Wheaten rescue from someone who had rescued it from the dog meat trade (I think in Thailand). A foster to adopt home was found for him, and he escaped. The only thing the story got wrong was that he was not returned. He now lives at the rescue and is happy as a clam and well-loved.
https://aboutdoggy.com/rescue-wheat...ar-was-finally-found-hiding-in-a-storm-drain/
 
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A woman looks at the Empire State Building and the New York skyline during a preview of SUMMIT One Vanderbilt observation deck, which is spread across the top four floor of the new One Vanderbilt tower in midtown Manhattan, New York City. 18 October 2021. Reuters
 

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