As a result of human action, over the past half century the Atlantic Ocean has been relentlessly consuming Atafona, a town 250km from Rio de Janeiro.

He taught young chefs to distinguish between Parmesan cheeses of different ages — and between milk extracted at different altitudes. Then one day, his sense of smell vanished.

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Facebook has faced a torrent of criticism from US President Joe Biden and others who have alleged that the company has allowed misinformation about coronavirus vaccines to flourish.

The media mogul who founded Afghanistan’s first 24-hour news channel said executives were already drawing up plans to run broadcasts from outside the country.

The nation is under a strict lockdown amid an outbreak that has widened beyond Auckland and Wellington.

Long COVID – severe fatigue, brain fog, headache, muscle pain and sleep problems – can persist for weeks or months after the active infection has ended.

The Alabama doctor says at least three unvaccinated patients have asked him where they could get a vaccine since he made the announcement.

Blair who sent British troops into Afghanistan in 2001, said the decision to withdraw was “tragic, dangerous, unnecessary, not in their interests and not in ours”.

Photographer Paula Bronstein has long documented life in Afghanistan.

The chaotic scenes in Kabul prompted one key Pacific ally of the US to say that her people would not “rely only on the protection of others”.

The Indonesian counter-terrorism police, Detachment 88, escalated a crackdown against Islamist terror suspects in the past week.

The United States has evacuated 2,500 Americans from Kabul over the past week, senior US officials said on Saturday.

Tensions in Haiti were rising on Saturday over a lack of aid to remote areas hardest hit by last week’s devastating earthquake that killed more than 2,000 people in the impoverished Caribbean country.

Paula Bronstein knows Afghanistan so well that she wrote a book about it. Now, having left Kabul a day before its invasion, she is already planning her return.

Ahmad Massoud is faced with a group that has just inherited military hardware from the US, but he’s drawing from his father’s old template.

The law created a new category of workers granting them limited benefits while maintaining they were not employees of technology platforms like Uber and Lyft.

The attack happened near the port of Gwadar which is part of a $84 billion Chinese investment program in the country.

New data suggested more than 6000 cases can be traced back to the month-long event, with 3404 people contracting the coronavirus at the final alone.

“That’s not a healthy sign for an ice sheet,” said an expert. “Water on ice is bad.”

The sites previously had protection from Cloudflare, a San Francisco-based company that helps websites deliver content and defend against cyber attacks.

New Zealand has recorded 21 new positive COVID-19 cases in the community. There are now 51 total cases associated with the Auckland outbreak.

“I have demanded once again from the President to release [Alexei] Navalny and I have made it clear that we will remain on the case,” she said.

The US President rejected criticism of his handling of the chaotic US pullout from Afghanistan, and promised Americans there that “we will get you home”.

Scenes of chaos at the airport were very real. They also provided a powerful metaphor for the haphazard and humiliating end to the US-led war in Afghanistan.

The Taliban has responded violently as Afghan protests defied the regime for a second day, amid growing challenges to their rule.

Artists say the star is providing “soft propaganda” as she skips quarantine to film Expats, a “Sex in the City meets Lost in Translation” series for Amazon.

The US Vice-President is embarking on a visit to Singapore and Vietnam that aims to counter China’s growing influence.

The Ministry of Health has confirmed the first cases of the new wave recorded outside of Auckland.

Despite calmer winds and cooler weather, the fire has forced thousands to flee and ravaged woodlands raged for a fourth day.

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A “close source” suggested the couple were unimpressed by the Queen’s claim that “recollections may vary” in response to their allegations of racism.

The United Arab Emirates announced it had accepted hosting Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and his family, citing humanitarian grounds. He’s not the first leader to surface there.

About 36 per cent of Mississippi is fully vaccinated, the second-worst vaccination rate in the country, above only Alabama

Crowds of people seeking to flee Afghanistan have thronged the airport since Taliban insurgents swept to power on Sunday, with some seen falling from airborne planes.

There has been an outpouring of support for David Lidstone since he was jailed on July 15 and accused of squatting for nearly 30 years on someone else’s property. 

Makoto Nagamine said Japan also has serious concerns about human rights violations in Xinjiang as calls for a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics mount.

Officials evacuated parts of the Capitol and sent snipers to the area after officers saw a man holding what looked like a detonator inside a ute with no licence plates.

Police say Raffaele Imperiale, an alleged kingpin in the Naples-based Camorra organised crime syndicate, bought two stolen Van Gogh paintings on the black market with drug money.

During an interview in Sydney on August 20, 1979, the eldest son of US President Jimmy Carter revealed some engaging thoughts on politics here and back home.

Quarantine-free travel between Europe and south-east Asia is set to resume next month with Singapore announcing a corridor with Germany for fully vaccinated passengers.

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Witnesses said Taliban fighters killed at least three people and injured more than a dozen during a protest in Jalalabad just a day after promising a peaceful takeover of the country.

The Taliban will have to negotiate with the US and their allies to gain access to $12.9 billion in foreign reserves needed to keep the country running.

The singer demanded absolute fealty from the many women and underage girls he recruited for sex in a two-decade racketeering scheme, the prosecutor said as the trial began.

New Zealand went into a lockdown of at least three days for the entire country and at least seven days in Auckland on Tuesday.

The problem for Biden is not his decision to end the war but the way his administration has handled it.

The Queen, 95, has until now been one of the few senior members of the Royal family to escape the Sussexes’ criticism.

The near-legendary fighter is expected to lead the country after twenty years of US-friendly government rule.

The US President doesn’t think there was a better way to handle the withdrawal.