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Olympic doubles champion Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic cruised into the quarterfinals at Tennis in the Land with a 60, 60 victory over Nagi Hanatani of Japan on Wednesday.

The first group of Afghan refugees to be airlifted to New Jersey arrived overnight at Joint Base McGuireDixLakehurst, a military spokesperson said on Wednesday.

Pfizer is seeking U.S. approval of a booster dose of its two-shot COVID-19 vaccine.

There have been over 131,000 UK deaths from COVID-19, but early research have died from COVID-19

When asked about the inability of the Afghanistan government to assess what was happening on the ground, Saleh said little could be done to change the attitude of a superpower.

Vice-president Saleh, who was born and trained to fight in Panjshir Valley has vowed it will reprise that role after he declared himself “caretaker” head of state.

As the insurgents continue their rampage in the war-torn country, Amrullah Saleh spoke to CNN-News18 about the collapse of the state, US ‘miscalculation’ and Panjshir Valley.

An organizer of a neoNazi campaign to threaten journalists and Jewish activists in three states was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison after apologizing for what he did and saying he's a changed man.

Johnson sidestepped a question about whether other G7 leaders had expressed frustration at U.S. President Joe Biden over his handling of the crisis and refusal to extend the deadline for U.S. troops remaining in Afghanistan.

Plans for an associate of Rudy Giuliani to plead guilty in an illegal campaign contribution case are being delayed a few weeks, a court filing said Tuesday.

The Biden administration expects that some Afghans who qualify for special visas will not be barred from going to Kabul airport to evacuate in coming days, even as the Taliban asks, press secretary Jen Psaki said on Tuesday.

Romal Haiderzada, 27, was also among a group of Afghans who were flown to the United States on Monday for resettlement.

The U.S. Embassy in El Salvador issued a warning Monday against swimming off the countrys Pacific coast beaches, citing a high number of deaths.

The former president of El Salvador's soccer federation pleaded guilty Monday in a U.S. court to a corruption charge in the longrunning FIFA bribery scandal.

Former presidential candidate Ricardo Anaya, who was one of several unsuccessful aspirants for Mexicos top office in the 2018 elections, has fled the country, claiming that charges against him are politically motivated.

For more than seven decades, Martin Adler treasured a backandwhite photo of himself as a young American soldier with a broad smile with three impeccably dressed Italian children he is credited with saving as the Nazis retreated northward in 1944.