Today’s Focus of Attention

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September 11, 2021 WHO exhorts wealthy nations to postpone booster shots until 2022
A request largely ignored: a pause for the cause in the administration of booster shots.
These vaccines can be used to inoculate millions of people in poor countries where its citizens are desperate to get at least one shot of a vaccine that could save their lives or their loved ones.
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September 03, 2021 New coronavirus variant: Mu
The World Health Organisation has included another version of the coronavirus to its list of “variants of interest”. Mu is the nickname given to the new variant.
B.1.621 was added in the list on 30 August after it was identified in 39 countries and found to possess a cluster of mutations that could make it less susceptible to the immune protection that many have gained through vaccination.
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2min
September 03, 2021 Vaccine apartheid in Africa
Less than 2 percent of Africa’s 1.3 billion people are fully vaccinated against Covid-19.
Selfishness is compromising the vaccine rollout in Africa. Other countries are offering and applying booster shots, while the poor ones haven’t yet received a first shot.
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2min
August 31, 2021 The US has left Afghanistan
The sound of the last US aeroplane leaving Afghanistan marked the conclusion of the longest, chaotic and, for many, the most humiliating war for America.
The United States has left Afghanistan after almost 20 years.
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August 30, 2021 Coronavirus origins: US intelligence report ‘inconclusive’
In May, President Joe Biden ordered US intelligence agencies to evaluate data and produce a report in 90 days that “could bring us to a definitive conclusion” on the origins of the virus. The report was presented last week as ‘inconclusive’. US intelligence cannot say if a laboratory accident caused the coronavirus pandemic, or it resulted from a natural spillover from animals to humans.
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2min
August 28, 2021 US drone strike against Islamic State
The United States attacked a planner from the Islamic State in Afghanistan just two days after the terrorist group claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing in Kabul international airport. The US drone strike took place in the eastern city of Jalalabad and was aimed to a mid-planner of ISIL-K.
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August 28, 2021 What do we know about Islamic State in Khorasan, aka ISIL-K?
ISIL-K is an offshoot of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (identified as ISIS), which had been seeking to establish a new caliphate in Iraq and Syria.
It was formed in 2014 by separatists fighters of the Pakistan Taliban and combatants from Afghanistan who vowed allegiance to the late ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
The Islamic State in Khorasan Province, also known as ISIL-K, has taken responsibility for the deadly suicide attacks outside Kabul international airport that killed at least 170 Afghans and 13 US soldiers, and leaving dozens injured.
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3min
August 28, 2021 Terrorist attack in Kabul
The war in Afghanistan ended as it began, with a terrorist attack and with a president vowing to hunt down the criminals in Afghanistan.
Two suicide bombers and a gunman struck one of the main entrances to Kabul International airport killing at least 170 civilians and 13 US service members just hours after Western intelligence agencies warned of an imminent threat to the evacuation mission.
The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks.
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August 26, 2021 UK still to airlift 2,000 from Afghanistan
There are concerns over a terrorist attack from ISIS in Kabul airport.
Amid rising fears, the US, the UK and other countries are rushing to evacuate their nationals and vulnerable Afghans as fast as possible.
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2min
August 26, 2021 Taliban committed to post-deadline safe passage, US says.
The US secretary of state Anthony Blinken has said the Taliban promised to allow foreigners and Afghans to leave Afghanistan beyond the deadline.
“The Taliban have made public and private commitments to provide a safe passage for Americans, for third-country nationals and at-risk afghans past 31 August.”
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