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An helicopter drops water on a wildfire near Le Luc, southern France (Daniel Cole/PA)

Fire crews continue efforts to subdue wildfire near French Riviera

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Afghans wave a black, red and green banner in honour of the Afghan flag — a banner that is becoming a symbol of defiance since the Taliban have their own flag, on Afghan Independence Day, in Kabul, Afghanistan (Rahmat Gul/AP)

Protesters vent defiance against Taliban amid uncertainty in Afghanistan

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Taliban fighters display their flag on patrol in Kabul, Afghanistan (Rahmat Gul/AP)

Joe Biden says Taliban are in ‘existential crisis’

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US President Joe Biden and US first lady Jill Biden (Leon Neal/PA)

Joe Biden says he will get coronavirus booster vaccination

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Silver medallist Maria Andrejczyk, of Poland (Martin Meissner/AP)

Buyer says Olympic athlete who sold silver medal to help sick child can keep it

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Firefighters mop up at Cache Creek Mobile Home Estates where the Cache Fire levelled dozens of residences (Noah Berger/AP)

Wildfire devastates mobile home park in northern California mountains

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An evidence bag containing elephant ivory handicrafts confiscated from a suspected poacher is shown to the media during a press conference at the local police headquarters in East Aceh, Indonesia,(Riska Munawarah/AP)

‘Elephant poacher’ and ‘ivory buyers’ arrested by Indonesian police

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Beate Zschaepe had her appeal rejected (Matthias Schrader/AP)

German court rejects appeals over killings by neo-Nazi group

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The United Nations Headquarters building in New York (Osamu Honda/AP)

US urges world leaders to stay away from New York for UN general assembly

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Taliban fighters patrol in the Wazir Akbar Khan neighbourhood in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan

Taliban marks Afghan independence as challenges to rule emerge

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Pakistan flag

At least three killed and scores injured in attack on Shiite Muslims in Pakistan

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Ben Wallace has backed Dominic Raab.

Defence Secretary defends Dominic Raab as Labour calls for him to be sacked

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Protesters march during a protest against mandatory vaccinations, in Riga, Latvia (Dmitrijs Sujzics/AP)

Thousands attend Latvian protest against mandatory vaccinations

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Joe Biden said he could not see how the chaos at Kabul airport could have been avoided

Chaos at Afghanistan airport evacuation was 'inevitable', defiant Joe Biden says

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Nicole Kidman (Matt Crossick/PA)

Hong Kong acknowledges quarantine exemption as Nicole Kidman films TV series

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A memorial at the site in Salem, Massachusetts, where five women were hanged as witches hundreds of years earlier

Sleuthing school pupils lead effort to pardon wrongly convicted ‘witch’

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There have been 12 deaths in or near Kabul aiport, officials say

Afghanistan: 12 people killed at Kabul airport as crowds try to flee Taliban rule

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Crowds have tried to flee Taliban rule by getting to the airport and hoping they are eligible to be flown out

Desperate Afghan mothers fleeing Taliban 'throw babies over Kabul airport barbed wire'

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