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Aug. 10—On a warm August 2021 morning in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital city was unnaturally quiet in the week that followed the United States' troop withdrawal. That day, an Afghan citizen and U.S. translator (referred to here as "John" to protect his identity) began to make his way to his work shift at 3 p.m. before traffic forced his driver to turn around. John returned home before going to ...

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Bratislava — The Czech Senate approved the expansion of NATO almost unanimously on Wednesday.All 66 senators who took part voted in favour of Sweden joining the alliance, while 64 of 65 supported Finland's membership, news agency CTK reported.One senator abstained from voting, but said afterwards it had been an error.After the approval of the Senate, the upper house of the Czech Republic's ...

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Brussels — EU member states are no longer allowed to import coal from Russia after the transitional period for the bloc's embargo ended at midnight (2200 GMT) on Wednesday.The embargo was part of the fifth sanctions package agreed by the EU in April and will be in full force from Thursday onwards.EU countries had agreed on a transitional period of 120 days to give the industry time to adapt to ...

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The Hollywood Bowl has spent the first month of its 101st season with the Los Angeles Philharmonic reimagining and reinventing the orchestra's long history in the famed amphitheater. It had the incomparable assist of Gustavo Dudamel, the most Bowl-happy major conductor since the flamboyant Leopold Stokowski began appearing in the 1930s. It's been a splendid month of Bernstein, Beethoven and ...

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KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — America’s top diplomat on Wednesday was hoping to showcase the potential for democracy and climate action here in one of Africa’s largest countries. But backsliding reality got in the way. Within hours of U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken’s arrival in the Democratic Republic of Congo — as he repeatedly urged free, fair and “on time” presidential ...

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The U.S. magistrate judge who signed off on the warrant allowing the FBI to search Donald Trump’s Palm Beach home recently took himself off the former president’s defamation lawsuit against political rival Hillary Clinton and critic Adam Schiff. Bruce Reinhart is a former federal prosecutor who was appointed to the bench in 2018 by the judges of the Southern District of Florida, a body of up ...

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Aug. 10—Not long after Donald Trump's 2016 election, Vox's Zack Beauchamp traveled to Hungary, where its authoritarian leader, Viktor Orbán, had implemented many of the populist-right policies that had energized the American president's most ardent supporters. Notably, Orbán militarized Hungary's southern border to stop the "invasion" of migrants — and he has made base racial appeals. After a ...

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Gary Shapiro, a longtime familiar face and voice to 9NEWS television viewers, will retire in December of 2022 after four decades on air, the Denver station announced Wednesday. Since 1989, Shapiro has anchored 9NEWS Mornings, after first joining the station as a Boulder Bureau Reporter in 1983. “It’s just time. Even though it was never easy getting up in the middle of the night, I’ve loved ...

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WASHINGTON — If Rep. Madison Cawthorn doesn’t turn in his campaign finance report by Sunday, federal election regulators will deem it so late that there’s no hope of receiving it. And the regulatory agency has already put Cawthorn on notice that he’s racking up a hefty fine for taking his time. Debbie Chacona, assistant staff director with the Federal Election Commission, addressed the matter ...

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Aug. 10—Three Israeli defense and aerospace companies feature in the "Defense News" Top 100 for 2022. In fact all three — Elbit Systems Ltd. (Nasdaq: ESLT; TASE:ESLT), Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), and Rafael — are listed in the top 50. The three companies have combined revenue of $11.7 billion. The top Israeli company in the list is Elbit Systems, ranked 31, down one place from last ...