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Situation in Afghanistan:
* A loud explosion erupted in the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday, the AFP news agency reported, hours after US officials warned of the threat of a terrorist attack.
VIDEO: A loud explosion broke out again in Kabul
* Taliban leader Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada has arrived in Afghanistan, the country’s media reported on Sunday. “Akhundzada has been in Kandahar province for four days, arguing with [kitais] “The leadership of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the development of a future system of government,” reported Ariana News. In the years that US and allied forces were in Afghanistan, Akhundzada hid in Pakistan.
* The Taliban deployed additional forces around the Kabul airport on Saturday when evacuation operations by foreign forces came to an end.
* The United States has ruled out a quick recognition of the Taliban government and has said it is still undecided whether US diplomats will continue to work in Afghanistan when foreign troops withdraw from the country next week.
* The US military carried out a drone strike on Friday against the attack “planner” of the jihadist Islamic State of Khorasan (IS-K), which assumed responsibility for the attack on the Kabul airport. According to Captain Bill Urban, spokesman for the US Central General Staff, preliminary data shows that the target was killed and there were no civilian casualties.
* The UK pulled its last troops out of Afghanistan on Saturday and completed the withdrawal, leaving hundreds of Afghans displaced.
Migration crisis:
* In Lithuania, around a hundred migrants have been handed over in the last two days. On Saturday, a group of several migrants in the Šalčininkai district, seeing the border guards on the Lithuanian side, abandoned their intentions to cross the state border and went to Belarus. Several small groups of migrants who did not approach the border line were also observed in the territory of this country.
* A person has been admitted to Lithuania for humanitarian reasons in the last two days.
* Polish Border Guard officials on Friday prevented 130 people from trying to illegally enter the country through the border with Belarus. According to border guards, 40 foreigners were detained and others were returned.
Coronavirus situation:
* In the last two days, 941 new cases of coronavirus were detected in Lithuania, 16 people died. 539 COVID-19 patients are treated in hospitals, 67 of them in resuscitation. The number of new diseases in 14 days is 100,000. The population reaches 283.2 cases and the proportion of positive diagnostic tests is 4.9 percent.
* In two days, 18.7 thousand people were vaccinated in Lithuania. people. 59% have received at least one coronavirus vaccine. people. In terms of single adults, 69.4 percent were vaccinated. population.
* Polish medical authorities have decided to recommend a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine for immunosuppressed people.
* More than 10 million people were vaccinated against COVID-19 in India on the first day since the pandemic was reported on Saturday. population.
* The Russian statistical agency Rosstat reported that 50.4 thousand people died from coronavirus in the country in July. people.
* Japan’s Okinawa region stopped using the Modern COVID-19 vaccine on Sunday after more cases of contamination were detected.
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* US President Joe Biden said China was hiding “critical information” about the origins of COVID-19 when the US intelligence community said it did not believe the virus was created as a biological weapon.
US support for Ukraine. US President Joe Biden ordered $ 60 million from the Pentagon. Financial support in USD to be used for defense purposes.
Conflict in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli air force struck two targets in the Gaza Strip on Sunday when residents of the Palestinian territory clashed with forces at the border and fired incendiary balloons into Israeli territory.
Yemen attack. At least 30 pro-government soldiers were killed and dozens more injured in Sunday’s Yemen airstrikes on Yemen’s largest air base, doctors and pro-government sources said, accusing Iranian-backed Hussi insurgents of the attack.
Hurricane United States. Hurricane Ida escalated to a Category 4 storm on Sunday and continues to move toward New Orleans. Hurricane force winds reach 209 km per hour. In New Orleans, in the southern United States, store windows were forged on Saturday and people evacuated. Authorities warned residents to leave immediately or seriously prepare for a storm.
The discovery of the Danes. Danish scientists say they have discovered, according to them, the northernmost land in the north: an unnamed islet north of the island of Greenland. Still, scientists believe that the discovered stretch of land could soon be flooded with the sea.
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