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BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil has had 37,613 new cases of the novel coronavirus reported in the past 24 hours, and 1,106 deaths from COVID-19, the health ministry said yesterday.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Mikhail Gorbachev, the leader who oversaw the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan in 1989 after Moscow’s failed decade-long campaign there, said on Tuesday that NATO’s own deployment to the country had been doomed from the start.

 (Reuters) – It took just a few days for the Taliban to sweep across Afghanistan and seize territory they did not already control, sometimes taking major provincial capitals with barely a shot in anger.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – The chief of field operations of the U.N.

KABUL,  (Reuters) – Thousands of people desperate to flee Afghanistan thronged Kabul’s airport yesterday after the Taliban seized the capital, prompting the United States to pause evacuations much of the day as President Joe Biden confronted mounting criticism over the U.S.

(Reuters) – U.S. officials for the first time yesterday declared an official water shortage for the massive Lake Mead reservoir, triggering supply cuts to parts of the drought-stricken Southwest, as 10 Western governors appealed for federal drought disaster aid.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Biden administration yesterday challenged a federal judge’s decision in June to block the Interior Department’s pause on oil and gas leasing on public lands and waters – a critical piece of its climate change policy – but will proceed with leasing during the appeals process.

ABUJA/LAGOS,  (Reuters) – Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari signed into law an oil overhaul bill that has been in the works for nearly two decades, a presidential spokesman said yesterday.

(Reuters) – The Nicaraguan government yesterday canceled the registration of six non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from Denmark, Spain, the United States and Sweden, claiming they were violating the Central American nation’s transparency laws.

KABUL,  (Reuters) – Thousands of Afghans desperate to leave the country thronged Kabul airport where five people were killed today after Taliban insurgents seized the capital, prompting the U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. auto safety regulators said today they had opened a formal safety probe into Tesla Inc’s driver assistance system Autopilot after a series of crashes involving emergency vehicles.

ABUJA/LAGOS,  (Reuters) – Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari signed into law an oil overhaul bill that has been in the works for nearly two decades, a presidential spokesman said today.

KABUL,  (Reuters) – The Taliban declared the war in Afghanistan was over after insurgents took control of the presidential palace in Kabul as U.S.-led

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yesterday called an early election for Sept.

KABUL,  (Reuters) – Taliban insurgents entered Afghanistan’s capital Kabul today and said they expected to take power within days, promising to moderate their earlier hardline Islamist rule even as foreign diplomats and many locals tried to leave.

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – At least 28 people were killed and 79 injured when a fuel tank exploded in northern Lebanon early on Sunday, the health ministry said.

PORT-AU-PRINCE/HAVANA (Reuters) – At least 304 people died and hundreds were injured after a major earthquake struck southwestern Haiti on Saturday, authorities said, reducing churches, hotels, schools and homes to rubble in the latest tragedy to hit the impoverished Caribbean nation.

KABUL, (Reuters) – The territory controlled by the crumbling Afghan government shrank to little more than Kabul on Sunday after the Taliban captured the major northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif while the United States sent more troops to help evacuate its civilians.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – A second young woman abducted seven years ago from the town of Chibok by Boko Haram militants was freed this week, Borno state’s governor said on Saturday.

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will visit Governor General Mary Simon today, when he is expected to seek a federal election next month, two years ahead of schedule.