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The rapid fall of Afghanistan to Taliban forces, explained – Vox

The agreement was finalized in February 2020 {Trump President} between the US and the Taliban, confirming a full American withdrawal along with reduced allied forces.

US officials and Afghan military officials described a demoralized military following the Doha agreement, seeing the deal as the government’s guaranteed defeat against the Taliban. “They saw that document as the end,” an Afghan special forces officer told the Post, referring to government-aligned officials. “The day the deal was signed we saw the change. Everyone was just looking out for himself. It was like [the United States] left us to fail.”

Source: The rapid fall of Afghanistan to Taliban forces, explained – Vox

Iceland has been a vaccination success. Why is it seeing a coronavirus surge? – The Washington Post

The country’s top health officials linked most of the cases to nightclubs and to residents who traveled to London to attend Euro 2020 soccer matches that some warned would be “a recipe for disaster.”

“We’ve seen in many places the so-called breakthrough cases, but invariably the rate of serious disease and death is exceedingly low, and that really is the core message here,” he said. Source: Iceland has been a vaccination success. Why is it seeing a coronavirus surge? – The Washington Post

The Gatekeeper

Weekend Stories by Trishikh

Neither very far from the hustle-bustle of the Kolkata city nor very deep in the lap of the South 24 Parganas rural landscape stood an ageing gated community, the Adidham Housing Complex. It was developed in the year 1937, a decade prior to Indian independence. At the time of its inception, the project was a hallmark of the twentieth-century community residence. Now in the year 2000 much had changed from the original vision of its creators after sixty-three years of its existence.

Most of the individual cottages now stood abandoned with rusted locks hanging on their wrought-iron picket gates. The once lush and colourful mini-gardens within the white wooden fences of each of the little houses now lay overgrown with wild vegetation and barb nettles. While unhinged doors and windows flopped with the wind night and day, plaster pealed brick revealing walls greeted bats and critters who had become the…

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Cosa consideri “offensivo”? – aggiornato — Barbara Crane Navarro

Originally posted on Barbara Crane Navarro: Donna Yanomami dipinta con Genipap, Amazonas, Venezuela – tagliata per evitare la censura « I minatori d’oro scavano dappertutto come cinghiali. I fiumi della foresta saranno presto nient’altro che vortici sporco pieni di fango, olio motore e spazzatura. Inoltre lavano la loro polvere d’oro in flussi, mescolandola con il mercurio.…

Cosa consideri “offensivo”? – aggiornato — Barbara Crane Navarro

Peruvian Yellow-tailed Woolly Monkey Lagothrix flavicauda — Palm Oil Detectives — Barbara Crane Navarro

Yellow-tailed woolly monkey (Oreonax, Lagothrix flavicauda) walking along branch carrying baby, Alto Mayo, Amazonas, Peru, critically engangered species Yellow-tailed Woolly Monkey (Oreonax flavicauda) mother and baby climbing between trees, Yungas Forest, Peru Peruvian Yellow-tailed Woolly Monkey Lagothrix flavicauda Peru Critically Endangered Peruvian Yellow-tailed Wooly Monkeys live in #Peru #South America. They’re known for their distinctive […]

Peruvian Yellow-tailed Woolly Monkey Lagothrix flavicauda — Palm Oil Detectives — Barbara Crane Navarro

DETER confirma: desmatamento na Amazônia segue fora de controle — — Barbara Crane Navarro

Governo e Congresso seguem estimulando a destruição da nossa maior aliada na contenção da crise climática, a poucos dias da divulgação de novas conclusões da ciência para o clima Área queimada em polígono com desmatamento recente, identificado pelo Deter 2021 e Prodes 2019, em Aripuanã, Mato Grosso. Todos os anos o Greenpeace Brasil realiza uma […] […]

DETER confirma: desmatamento na Amazônia segue fora de controle — — Barbara Crane Navarro