| | | | Dozens of Australian nationals and visa holders stranded in Afghanistan were plucked from the suburbs of Kabul this week as part of a tense multinational extraction effort to get foreigners to the airport, the ABC reveals. | | | | Why, after more than two months of lockdown, are COVID case numbers still rising in NSW? And what will it take to flatten the curve? | | | | Victoria's essential workers are keeping the state running during its strict lockdown, but their work also puts them at high risk of being infected with COVID-19 — and it's leaving some of them feeling "forgotten". | | | | Coastal towns around Australia are at risk of dying out if something isn't done about the unaffordable and unavailable housing, locals say. | | | | The COVID imagery of coming months looks dangerously like it could be one of a continuing and increasing unravelling of the authority of our leaders, and the community's willingness to abide by their daily pleas, writes Laura Tingle. | | | | Scientists in China are preparing to turn on an experimental reactor believed by some to be the Holy Grail of nuclear energy — safer, cheaper and with less potential for weaponisation. | | | | With half a million Afghans predicted to flee the country across land borders, the Pentagon says there was only a bombing at the airport gate, not at two locations, as US officials initially said. | | | | The US president inherited a situation with no good solution, but the latest deaths will raise questions about his judgment that risk clouding his presidency, writes Tony Walker. | | | | Victoria closed playgrounds, while NSW kept them open. As some parents question the choices, these experts say the impacts of isolation cause "anxiety and depression". | | | | Sydney is home to one in 14 of the world's dwindling number of Mandaeans, followers of an ancient religion dating back to John the Baptist, but the community is now under threat from the COVID-19 Delta strain with 70 cases and two deaths in recent weeks. | | | | | | | | | Download the ABC News app | | Available on Android and Apple devices | | | The ABC NEWS app makes it easier for you to stay up to date with the latest news and information from Australia's most trusted news source. | | | | | The ABC sent this message to wwwhindimen.australia@blogger.com these details are included to help provide assurance that this is a genuine email from ABC.
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