🇦🇫 This is what the Taliban's celebration marking the departure of the last US military plane looks like

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▪️Two people were killed and another 10 injured as a result of a highway collapse in Mississippi caused by Hurricane Ida.

▪️Gunfire and fireworks have erupted in Kabul following the US troop withdrawal.

▪️The Taliban will announce the formation of a new Afghan government on Friday, a source from the movement's military commission has told Sputnik.

▪️The US Embassy in Belarus has reduced its staff at Minsk's request.

▪️Pentagon boss Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley are under pressure to resign over "the disastrous" troop exit from Afghanistan.

🇦🇫People with the white flag of the Taliban (banned in Russia) are celebrating the American withdrawal from Afghanistan in the the second biggest Afghan city of Kandahar.

A congressional committee probing the January 6 Capitol riot may request Donald Trump’s phone records, CNN has reported, citing unnamed sources.

Ivanka, Donald Jr., and Eric Trump are also likely to have their phones checked, the sources said.

The requests have already been sent to telecommunications giants such as AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and US Cellular.

👀 After giving a speech on the US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, Secretary of State Antony Blinken made it quick and simply refused to take any questions from reporters.

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US President Biden gives a press briefing on ending the war in Afghanistan.

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In an address to the nation on the end of the war in Afghanistan, US President Joe Biden calls the evacuation effort from Kabul an "extraordinary success."

🐺 A series of coyote attacks in Vancouver’s Stanley Park has led an expert to warn that their unusually aggressive behaviour could be due to the ingestion of drugs.

Officials have warned the public to stay out of the park following three coyote attacks over a four-day period, most recently on Saturday, when a man out walking was bitten on the leg

🦡 A New York City animal rescuer has responded to a three-story building in Brooklyn to rescue a raccoon hanging by its tail from an air vent near the roof.

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🇦🇫 More than 500 Afghan journalists who were employed by the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) remain in Afghanistan.

🗣 “The US State Department claimed they evacuated their local employees when in reality they abandoned hundreds of USAGM journalists and their families, ”the House Foreign Affairs Committee Michael McCaul said in a press release.

🗣 “Some of these journalists were given express assurances by the Biden Administration that they would be treated as locally employed staff - but were not.”

🇺🇸 ⚜️New Orleans has imposed a curfew in the wake of Hurricane Ida to stop the looting and to maintain public safety, city officials said.