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Militants met former leaders from the toppled US-backed government while thousands fled towards the country’s borders.

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Donald Trump's former national security advisor has said that within six months Afghanistan will look as it did before 9/11.

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The Moderna jab is the second one authorised for those aged between 12 and 17, after the Pfizer vaccine.

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The deaths recorded in the 24 hours to 9am on Wednesday are a fall from the 170 recorded on Tuesday, but it's a jump from the 26 fatalities added on Monday.

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The positive case was found in the country’s largest city, Auckland. The last community outbreak in the country was in February of this year.

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A team of engineers have built two robots that can run, jump and even do parkour vaults and backflips almost as good as humans. 

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The Lloyd family managed to capture the deer using a lasso and brought it back to the shore at Weymouth.

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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have said that recent events in Afghanistan have left them "speechless."

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Despite spending enormous sums of money on building up the military capacity of both nations, they ultimately folded without US support - writes Tom Bradby.

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The Taliban and the Chinese Government have maintained relations for many years but Beijing is uncomfortable with the militant's ideological agenda. 

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Scientists found that those infected with the Delta variant after their second jab had similar peak levels of virus to unvaccinated people.

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US President Joe Biden pushed back against criticism that the US should have done more to plan for the evacuation and withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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The deaths of serving police officer David Louden and his three-year-old son Harrison in Kidderminster are being treated as a suspected murder/suicide.

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The battle has been ongoing since Geronimo arrived in the UK in 2017. 

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Women are waiting at empty Kabul embassies in the futile hope someone is still there to help them escape. 

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Afghanaid worker Kitty Chevallier boarded a flight from Kabul on Monday morning, passing crowds of Afghan families as she left.

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Dhan Gurung has been on hunger strike for 11 days and was taken to hospital with 'high blood pressure and a low heartbeat'. 

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Chicken supplier sources said the Home Office needs review EU worker rules, as staff shortages hit the industry.

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Anti-tourist graffiti popped up on a 30 mph road sign in Hayle

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Former marine Pen Farthing at his animal sanctuary in Afghanistan in 2017.

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