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US-AFGHANISTAN-AIRPORT-EVACUATED Chart. This digital embed plots both the running total and daily counts of people evacuated by U.S. forces from Kabul since august 14. The chart will be updated daily. Source: White House

Australia has been evacuating its citizens and visa holders for more than a week from Kabul airport, where Canberra had urged people to travel in order to be ready for transport.

Farida Nekzad, who is now in Qatar, says journalists are being repeatedly attacked in Afghanistan while people are dragged out of their homes at night and taken away.

Shaheen edited the English language, state-owned Kabul Times during the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, before being appointed Deputy Ambassador at the Afghan Embassy in Pakistan.

President Joe Biden will tell Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the White House on Thursday that Washington shares Israel's concern that Iran has accelerated its nuclear program but remains committed for now to diplomacy with Tehran.

Nebraskas veterans affairs agency is facing questions from a state lawmaker after it published job advertisements for nurses touting the fact that the state doesnt require its employees to get coronavirus vaccinations.

A man stopped his capital murder trial Tuesday with a guilty plea to the 1974 killing of a 17yearold Texas girl.

The United States has evacuated more than 4,000 American passport holders plus their families from Afghanistan in the ongoing airlift from Kabul, a senior State Department official said on Tuesday.

Using the growing speciality of attribution science, climate experts are increasingly able to link manmade climate change to specific extreme weather events.

The U.S. Embassy in El Salvador issued a warning Monday against swimming off the countrys Pacific coast beaches, citing a high number of deaths.

The leader of the Proud Boys extremist group was sentenced to more than five months in jail on Monday for burning a Black Lives Matter banner that was torn down from a historic Black church in downtown Washington and bringing two high-capacity firearm mag...

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The new antibody attaches to a part of the virus that differs little across the variants, meaning that it is unlikely for resistance to arise at this spot, the researchers said.

The military said in a tweet that one Afghan security officer was killed and another three were wounded in the early morning incident.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, and his wife, Jacqueline, remained under doctors' observation Sunday at a Chicago hospital and were responding positively to treatments for COVID19, their son told The Associated Press.

Authorities fighting a northeastern Minnesota wildfire said Sunday that the blaze did not expand its reach over the weekend.