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The Taliban has intensified its campaign to defeat the US-backed government as foreign forces complete their withdrawal after 20 years of war [File: Abdul Khaliq Achakzai/Reuters]

Major blow to Afghan gov’t as Taliban captures provincial capital

Zaranj, capital of southern Nimruz province, falls to the group in a significant setback for the Afghan government.

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In England, hundreds of vaccinated people hospitalised with Delta

Public health experts warn ‘vaccines do not eliminate all risk’ amid early signs jabs may not stop Delta transmission.

Tsimanouskaya flew to Poland, where she and her husband have been granted humanitarian visas [Darek Golik/Reuters]

IOC expels Belarus coaches over Tsimanouskaya scandal

Lithuania said Belarus was flying in migrants from abroad and dispatching them into the European Union [File: Petras Malukas/AFP]

Poland, Lithuania call for EU help amid Belarus migration row

Less than a third of United States teens were employed in the summer of 2020, but this year, they have roared back into the jobs market with a vengeance as businesses scramble to fill a record number of US job openings [File: Jessica Pons/Bloomberg]

Gen Z teens get a crash course in pitfalls of US jobs market

Homes and cars destroyed by the Dixie Fire line central Greenville in Plumas County, California [Noah Berger/AP Photo]

California wildfire flares up, now third-largest in state history

Police escort rescue workers carrying a person through a train station after a knife attack on a train in Tokyo [Reuters]

Ten passengers injured in Tokyo commuter train stabbing

Smoke rises at Ibl al-Saqi village in southern Lebanon [Karamallah Daher/Reuters]

Hezbollah launches rocket fire in response to Israeli air raids

Demonstrators protesting against Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's government in Managua, Nicaragua [File: Oswaldo Rivas/Reuters]

US imposes visa restrictions on relatives of Nicaraguan officials

A potential collapse of the system could have severe consequences for the world's weather systems [File: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP]

Part of Gulf Stream at risk as Atlantic Ocean currents weaken


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The highly contagious Delta variant now accounts for 99 percent of all COVID-19 infections in the UK [File: Toby Melville/Reuters]

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Tsimanouskaya flew to Poland, where she and her husband have been granted humanitarian visas [Darek Golik/Reuters]

IOC expels Belarus coaches over Tsimanouskaya scandal

Lithuania said Belarus was flying in migrants from abroad and dispatching them into the European Union [File: Petras Malukas/AFP]

Poland, Lithuania call for EU help amid Belarus migration row

Less than a third of United States teens were employed in the summer of 2020, but this year, they have roared back into the jobs market with a vengeance as businesses scramble to fill a record number of US job openings [File: Jessica Pons/Bloomberg]

Gen Z teens get a crash course in pitfalls of US jobs market

Homes and cars destroyed by the Dixie Fire line central Greenville in Plumas County, California [Noah Berger/AP Photo]

California wildfire flares up, now third-largest in state history

Police escort rescue workers carrying a person through a train station after a knife attack on a train in Tokyo [Reuters]

Ten passengers injured in Tokyo commuter train stabbing

Smoke rises at Ibl al-Saqi village in southern Lebanon [Karamallah Daher/Reuters]

Hezbollah launches rocket fire in response to Israeli air raids

Demonstrators protesting against Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's government in Managua, Nicaragua [File: Oswaldo Rivas/Reuters]

US imposes visa restrictions on relatives of Nicaraguan officials

A potential collapse of the system could have severe consequences for the world's weather systems [File: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP]

Part of Gulf Stream at risk as Atlantic Ocean currents weaken

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Al Jazeera’s special coverage of the delayed 2020 Olympic Games in Japan.

United Airlines latest US firm to mandate COVID jabs for staff

United Airlines is the first major US carrier to require all of its domestic staff to be fully vaccinated against COVID.

The list of big United States corporations forcing staffers to choose between getting jabbed or losing their jobs continues to grow as the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus prompts states and cities to reintroduce measures to control the spread of the virus [File: Karen Pulfer Focht/Reuters]

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