Footage released by The New York Times shows that a U.S. drone strike conducted
on August 29 targeted an aid worker named Zemari Ahmadi instead of
ISIS-K militants. The report also confirms that 10 Afghans were killed in the drone strike, including seven children.
(Business Insider)
The
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights says that the
Taliban response to the peaceful marches has been increasingly violent, with authorities using live ammunition, batons and whips, which has resulted in the deaths of four civilians. A spokesperson for the rights office says that the response from the Taliban has been "unfortunately severe".
(Reuters)
Russia's
Gazprom says that it has completed the construction of the
Nord Stream 2natural gaspipeline to
Germany. Gazprom says that gas flows to Europe through the pipeline cannot begin until they have received approval from German regulators.
(Reuters)
A 44-year-old firefighter dies during efforts to contain a
wildfire in
Málaga,
Spain, which has triggered the evacuation of 939 people from
Estepona and
Benahavis. Residents of
Jubrique and
Genalguacil are ordered to stay indoors and close their windows due to the risk posed by an overhead
fire cloud that could rain down hot matter in the area.
(ITV News)(El País)
Singapore reports 568 new locally transmitted cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, which is the highest single-day total of new cases since August 2020.
(Today)
Denmark becomes the first country in the
European Union to lift all of its COVID-19-related restrictions, with the lifting of the requirement to show a digital pass in order to enter nightclubs, as the country no longer considers COVID-19 to be a "socially critical" disease and the
vaccination rate has surpassed 80%.
(The Guardian)(Associated Press)
Togo closes all
places of worship and bans all cultural, sporting and political events, including weddings and funerals, following an increase in the number of new COVID-19 cases in recent weeks.
(Barron's)
France raises its
bird flu alert level to "moderate" after a severe strain of the virus was reported this week at a private household in the
Ardennes department, near the border with
Belgium.
(Euronews)
The
European Union rejects a request from the
United Kingdom to renegotiate the deal governing the trading position of
Northern Ireland. The EU adds that renegotiating the deal, which agreed to leave some EU rules in place in Northern Ireland and to accept checks on goods arriving from elsewhere in the UK following
Brexit, would result in "instability, uncertainty and unpredictability in Northern Ireland".
(Yahoo! News)
The 2021 Dismantling Global Hindutva conference, or the DGH, held between 10-12 September, apparently started out as a small group of academics planning a modest gathering to explore the dangers of Hindutva ideology.
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