The Worldwide News August 20 2021
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The Taliban aims to unveil a model for governing the country, but no decision has yet been made about what form it will take.
Amid sharp criticism, Germany stumbles in late efforts to rescue Afghan support staff
Scores of Afghans who worked for German forces have been hiding in Kabul since the Taliban arrived.
Rome’s iconic pines, hit hard by a nasty parasite, now face their own pandemic
Rescue efforts involve injections of a bug-killing serum as well as booster shots.
‘We will get you home,’ Biden promises Americans, amid effort to speed Afghanistan evacuations
The United States has dedicated its troops to maintaining security at the airport, the only exit point from Afghanistan not under Taliban control.
Anti-Taliban fighters claim victories as first stirrings of armed resistance emerge
Local commanders say they took three districts from the Taliban in northern Afghanistan’s Baghlan province.
U.S. upsets Canadians by extending border restrictions after Canada opened door to vaccinated Americans
Canada loosened its own restrictions on U.S. travel this month.
Here’s how the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan could affect al-Qaeda and the Islamic State
Experts say the Taliban's victory in Afghanistan could galvanize Islamist extremist groups and draw more militants to Afghanistan.
The Taliban is flaunting captured U.S. weapons that may be worth billions. Can it use them?
Footage from areas in Afghanistan captured by the militant group shows bedraggled but celebratory fighters in control of U.S.-made guns, armored vehicles and even Blackhawk helicopters and drones.
Putin chides U.S. on its actions in Afghanistan — and warns of the risk of terrorism
Trying to impose democracy on other countries does not work, Putin says.
Internal displacement crisis looms in Afghanistan in wake of Taliban takeover
More than 240,000 Afghans have been internally displaced since the U.S. withdrawal began in May. Tens of thousands more have fled their home provinces in the past two weeks.
The treacherous journey into Kabul airport to escape Taliban-controlled Afghanistan
Susannah George, The Washington Post's Afghanistan bureau chief, recounts evacuating Post staffers and their families.
Taliban hunting for ‘collaborators’ in major cities, threat assessment prepared for United Nations warns
Separately, a German broadcaster said the Taliban killed a relative of one of its journalists in Afghanistan.
Taliban bars female news anchors from state television, reports say
Shabnam Khan Dawran, a news presenter for Radio Television Afghanistan, said in a video message Wednesday that she was threatened by Taliban militants when she showed up for work.
Britain’s top diplomat pressured to resign following luxury vacation while Afghanistan fell
Raab reportedly did not make a crucial phone call to his Afghan counterpart that could have supported the interpreters in their efforts to leave the country.
- Podcast
An Afghan journalist's escape from Kabul
Nasrin Nawa, an Afghan journalist, narrowly escaped the Taliban's takeover of Kabul. But leaving her home country also meant leaving her parents — and sister — to an uncertain future.
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