| | Australian troops will embark on a dangerous evacuation mission as early as this week, with the Taliban expected to soon launch an all-out assault on the Afghan capital Kabul. | | | As NSW wakes up to a statewide lockdown and the vaccine rollout gathers pace, Premier Gladys Berejiklian says the challenge will be keeping everybody safe until the vaccination rate hits 70-80 per cent. | | | After Gladys Berejiklian announced 466 new case numbers yesterday, no-one needed to ask why she followed up by announcing tightened lockdown limits. But other questions soon followed. | | | Mazar-i-Sharif becomes the latest city to fall under Taliban rule, as the militants move closer to the capital Kabul and countries evacuate embassy staff. | | | Celebrity friends, a palatial estate in the exclusive Martha's Vineyard, $400,000 speeches to Wall Street — what happened to the Barack Obama we once knew, asks Stan Grant. | | | These New South Wales community leaders are doing their bit to help dispel myths around COVID-19 vaccines through targeted campaigns. Their efforts have not gone to waste, as some have changed their minds about the jab. | | | As blazes incinerated the island of Evia, tearing through tinder-dry forest during the worst heatwave in more than three decades, some residents decided to stay and fight. | | | It was never meant to be like this. America has vast supplies of vaccine available to almost anyone. But in some pockets of the country, the Delta variant is ripping through the unvaccinated. | | | In the past five years alone, Four Corners has prompted royal commissions into aged care, youth detention, the banking system and water theft. But it's also come under attack for the last 60 years, writes executive producer Sally Neighbour. | | | COVID-19 cases at Glenroy in Melbourne's north and a Richmond apartment complex are emerging as crucial new fronts as the city's lockdown continues for a second week. | | | | | | 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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