Sep 09 Japan extends virus emergency until end of September By Mari Yamaguchi, Associated Press Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga says serious cases remain high and are still overwhelming many hospitals. Continue reading
Sep 09 Scores of Westerners, including Americans, fly commercial out of Kabul By Kathy Gannon, Associated Press The departure on Thursday represented a breakthrough in the bumpy coordination between the U.S. and Afghanistan’s new Taliban leaders. Continue reading
Sep 08 Watch 7:16 News Wrap: Trial begins for 2015 Paris terrorist attacks by Islamic State In our news wrap Wednesday, a long-awaited trial opened in Paris on the 2015 Islamic State terrorist attack that killed 130 people. The World Health Organization asked that rich nations not give COVID-19 booster shots until next year. A new… Continue watching
Sep 08 Blinken tells Taliban legitimacy ‘will have to be earned’ By Christoph Noelting, Geir Moulson, Associated Press Blinken said Wednesday that the new Afghan government "certainly does not meet the test of inclusivity and it includes people who have very challenging track records."… Continue reading
Sep 08 U.S. Navy launches Mideast drone task force amid Iran tensions By Jon Gambrell, Associated Press The U.S. Navy's Mideast-based 5th Fleet says it will launch a new task force that incorporates airborne, sailing and underwater drones after years of maritime attacks linked to ongoing tensions with Iran. Continue reading
Sep 08 WHO chief urges halt to booster shots for rest of the year By Associated Press World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is calling on rich countries with large supplies of coronavirus vaccines to refrain from offering booster shots through the end of the year. Continue reading
Sep 08 Paris terror trial opens for 20 accused in 2015 attacks By Lori Hinnant, Nicolas Vaux-Montagny, Associated Press Nine Islamic State group gunmen and suicide bombers struck within minutes of one another at several locations around Paris on Nov. 13, 2015, leaving 130 people dead and hundreds wounded. Continue reading
Sep 07 Watch 3:37 What we know about the Taliban men who will form Afghanistan’s interim government The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan continues as the group announced leaders of a "caretaker" government Tuesday. Meanwhile, the U.S. secretaries of state and defense were in the Gulf region, in Qatar, where the American evacuation mission is headquartered, and the… Continue watching
Sep 07 Watch 8:54 Two experts on Afghanistan’s ‘caretaker’ government and its ties to other terrorist groups To learn more about the men leading the new Taliban government in Afghanstan, Judy Woodruff speaks to Ahmed Rashid, a journalist and author of "Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia," and Douglas London, who had a 34-year… Continue watching
Sep 07 Watch 5:00 News Wrap: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signs bill limiting all-night, mail-in voting In our news wrap Tuesday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a measure banning all-night and drive-thru voting and limiting mail-in ballots, dismissing the lawsuits being filed. The U.S. COVID death toll reached 650,000 out of nearly 4.6 million worldwide. Mexico's… Continue watching