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Mandate wars: Biden’s big bet to fight the Delta variant
With vaccinations hitting a wall and some governors refusing to impose new restrictions, President Biden introduced a vaccine mandate.
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US Capitol security ramped up as right-wing rally takes place
Right-wing demonstrators descended on the US Capitol in Washington DC, as seen earlier this year in January which saw the pro-Trump rally turn deadly as protesters stormed the Capitol building.
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Nancy Pelosi meets counterparts at G7 speaker’s summit in Chorley
When rioters stormed the US Capitol in January, one of their first targets was the office of the US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. As demonstrators gather again in Washington, she’s in Lancashire, meeting counterparts from across the G7.
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AUKUS: France recalls ambassadors in Australia and US amid submarine pact row
France’s ambassador to Australia has left Canberra, as it carries out a highly charged response to the AUKUS security agreement.
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Submarine pact ‘manifestation of global Britain’, says former UK national security adviser
We’re joined from Washington by Richard Fontaine, who was foreign policy advisor to the McCain 2008 presidential campaign,
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‘Afghanistan has lost 51 per cent of its human capital’ – former government minister
We spoke to Hosna Jalil, the former deputy interior minister in Afghanistan.
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9/11 anniversary: US marks 20 years since Twin Towers attacks
Families of loved ones have described the ‘unbearable sorrow’ as they remember the terrible day 20 years ago, when almost 3000 lives were lost when hijacked planes smashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, into the Pentagon outside Washington, and a fourth crashed into a field in Pennsylvania.
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Does Afghanistan withdrawal mean the end of US nation building?
After imperial Britain and the Soviet Union, Afghanistan has now seen off America, supposedly the world’s mightiest military.
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Afghanistan: Evacuations under intense scrutiny in US
In the US, the evacuation of citizens and Afghan allies is also under intense scrutiny.
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Biden: US troops may stay beyond Afghanistan withdrawal deadline
In Washington, President Biden has said US troops could stay in Afghanistan beyond the end of the month to help evacuate American citizens who are still stranded there.
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Trump and Biden are ‘Tweedledee and Tweedledum’ on Afghanistan withdrawal, says John Bolton
Ambassador John Bolton served as US ambassador to the UN under President George W Bush and as national security adviser to President Donald Trump.
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Bush, Obama and Trump administrations lied to American people about Afghanistan, says journalist
As territory falls with seemingly inevitable speed to the Taliban, the Washington Post journalist Craig Whitlock has claimed in his new book that three successive American presidents and their commanders misled the public, committing more and more troops to an endless conflict, despite losing all sight of their original objectives.
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First Afghan interpreters evacuated to US
More than 200 former Afghan interpreters who worked alongside US forces have arrived at a military airbase near Washington DC, under a new visa scheme to help relocate them out of harm’s way.
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Bootleg Fire continues to rip through Oregon damaging livelihoods and causing thousands to evacuate
Forecasters in the United States say that dry and windy weather will continue to fuel wildfires.
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Everyone believes Trump ‘has gone off his rocker’, says author Michael Wolff
We spoke to Michael Wolff in his first UK interview on the book and I started by asking him why on earth Mr Trump allowed himself to be interviewed again in the wake of the capitol riots.