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https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/210820162742-kabul-airport-marines-checkpoint-super-tease.jpg Soldiers stand guard near a canal as Afghans wait outside the foreign military-controlled part of the airport in Kabul, hoping to flee the country following the Taliban’s military takeover of Afghanistan, on August 22. (Wakil Kohsar/AFP/Getty Images) An estimated Read more …

https://dynaimage.cdn.cnn.com/cnn/digital-images/org/61475803-435a-4260-9c6e-dc6c8192a6db.jpg Protesters throw a statue of slave trader Edward Colston into Bristol harbor, during a Black Lives Matter protest rally, in Bristol, England, on June 7. Ben Birchall/PA/AP In the UK city of Bristol, protesters on Sunday pulled down a Read more …

https://dynaimage.cdn.cnn.com/cnn/digital-images/org/70613486-9057-4634-9bcd-cdb06d02a0f8.jpg A health official takes a swab sample from a man to test for Covid-19 at a testing centre in Allahabad, India, on April 12. Sanjay Kanojia/AFP/Getty Images India reported 217,353 new cases of Covid-19 on Friday, marking the country’s Read more …

https://dynaimage.cdn.cnn.com/cnn/digital-images/org/09058bc5-6a88-4e0a-8949-8b1ffea0cc02.jpg White House economic adviser Peter Navarro blasted ousted Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority director Rick Bright’s testimony before Congress yesterday as “the height of irony” and a “circus thing.” Navarro pushed back on Bright’s testimony that there is Read more …

https://dynaimage.cdn.cnn.com/cnn/digital-images/org/b68af872-f2e0-4c32-9824-833dfbc4885c.png A participant in Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine clinical trial receives a shot at Accel Research Sites in DeLand, Florida, on August 4. Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto/Getty Images Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine is “94.5% effective” in preventing infection, according to early data released by Read more …

https://dynaimage.cdn.cnn.com/cnn/digital-images/org/231429be-db97-4d46-b11e-7a76a796ad44.jpg The coronavirus is nothing like the flu, and continued comparisons are misleading, a senior American Heart Association official said Friday. Covid-19 is new, people have no immunity to it, there’s no vaccine to prevent it and no good treatment Read more …

https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/210416010826-02-indianapolis-fedex-shooting-0416-super-tease.jpg Alfarena McGinty speaks during a press conference on April 16. Jon Cherry/Getty Images Alfarena McGinty, the chief deputy coroner at the Marion County Coroner’s Office, said they are not able to identify any of the shooting victims yet, and Read more …

https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200213175739-03-coronavirus-0213-super-tease.jpg Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, said there is currently no evidence that the United States needs to go ahead with booster shots, although this is something that is being looked at almost daily.  “Well, Read more …

https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/210820162742-kabul-airport-marines-checkpoint-super-tease.jpg Mexico has received 124 Afghan nationals who requested humanitarian protection, Mexico’s foreign ministry announced Wednesday in press statement.  The group of Afghan nationals who arrived early Wednesday at Mexico City International Airport are made up of media workers and Read more …

https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200213175739-03-coronavirus-0213-super-tease.jpg Pope Francis is pictured on August 15, as he delivers his blessing from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican. Andrew Medichini/AP Pope Francis said during his general audience on Wednesday that a coronavirus Read more …