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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo spent his secondtolast day in office projecting an image that he is still in control, and still fully engaged as the state dealt with heavy rain from Tropical Storm Henri.

A cruise ship headed for the Mexican Riviera set sail from the Port of Long Beach on Saturday the first cruise ship to depart from California in 17 months.

An Israeli soldier and two Palestinians, including a 13yearold boy, were seriously injured in crossborder fire along the Gaza border on Saturday that wounded 39 other Palestinians, officials said.

The United Nations Refugee Agency says about 80 per cent of those who have fled Afghanistan since the end of May are women and children.

Florida officials are threatening to withhold funds equal to the salaries of school board members if school districts in two counties don't immediately do away with strict mask mandates as the state continues to battle through high hospitalization rates.

Brazils President Jair Bolsonaro has begun expressing irritation at the central banks newfound autonomy as surging inflation presents a threat to his 2022 reelection prospects, government officials told The Associated Press.

Also, users of Facebook-owned Instagram in Afghanistan will receive notifications informing them of methods to protect their accounts.

Reporting remotely may be better than no reporting at all, but press freedom groups are concerned that a Taliban crackdown will keep the world from knowing what’s happening inside the country.

The U.S. government is "laser focused" on the potential for a terrorist attack in Afghanistan by a group like ISISK, a sworn enemy of the Taliban, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told NBC Nightly News on Thursday.

About two dozen U.S. diplomats in Afghanistan sent an internal cable last month warning Secretary of State Antony Blinken of the potential fall of Kabul to the Taliban as U.S. troops withdrew from the country, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

U.N. SecretaryGeneral Antonio Guterres on Thursday pushed for an immediate ceasefire and unrestricted aid access in Ethiopia's Tigray region, where he said millions of people needed help and women had suffered "unspeakable violence."

Prosecutors want a video of Kyle Rittenhouse accepted into evidence that they say shows him talking about wanting to shoot people, footage taken about two weeks before Rittenhouse fatally shot two protesters in Wisconsin and wounded a third.

With the Taliban capturing provincial capital in blitzkrieg, Ghani had to flee as the insurgent forces took Kabul last Sunday.

The Biden administration had long promised an "orderly drawdown" of America's longest war, with the president saying US forces no longer have any national interest in fighting in a protracted conflict.

Dozens of people were killed in northern Burkina Faso on Wednesday when Islamist militants raided a civilian convoy that was being escorted by military police, the latest in a spate of attacks across West Africa's Sahel region this month.

The head of the South Dakota National Guard said Wednesday that Gov. Kristi Noem didnt tell him she would use a private donation for the deployment to the U.S. border with Mexico until after the mission was already planned.