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U.S. to begin offering COVID-19 vaccine booster shots in September

REUTERS COVID-19 vaccine booster shots will be made widely available to Americans starting on Sept. 20, U.S. health officials said on Wednesday, citing data showing diminishing protection from the initial vaccinations as infections rise from the D..
U.S. reports more than 1,000 COVID deaths in single day

Aug 18 - The United States reported more than 1,000 COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday, equating to around 42 fatalities an hour, according to a Reuters tally, as the Delta variant continues to ravage parts of the country with low vaccination rates. Coron..
Gorbachev, leader who pulled Soviets from Afghanistan, says U.S. campaign was doomed from start

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..
Ex-U.S. President Bush says U.S. must quickly aid Afghan refugees

REUTERS Former U.S. President George W. Bush, who launched a "war on terror" in Afghanistan and elsewhere following the Sept. 11, 2001attacks, urged the U.S. government to expedite help for Afghan refugees following the Taliban's swi..
U.S. to continue Afghan evacuations over coming weeks -Pentagon

REUTERS The United States will seek to evacuate as many U.S. citizens and Afghan interpreters as possible in coming weeks, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said on Tuesday, saying Americans could again make their way to the Kabul airport. In a ser..
Over 600 Afghans cram into U.S. cargo plane in desperate flight from Kabul

REUTERS More than 600 Afghan men, women and children, crouching and crammed up against each other on the floor of a U.S. military plane, left Kabul after the city was seized by Taliban insurgents. A photograph showing the Afghan civilians - som..
Uganda to take 2,000 Afghan refugees at U.S. request

REUTERS Uganda said on Tuesday it had agreed to a request from the United States to take in temporarily 2,000 refugees from Afghanistan fleeing after the Taliban takeover. The east African nation has long experience receiving people escaping co..
China's foreign minister slams 'hurried' U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan

REUTERS Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday that the hasty pullout of U.S. troops from Afghanistan had a "serious negative impact,"but pledged to work with Washington to promote stability in ..
Iran says U.S. "failure" in Afghanistan a chance for durable peace

REUTERS Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Monday the United States' "military failure" in Afghanistan offered an opportunity to establish lasting peace in the country. Taliban insurgents took control of the Afghan capit..

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