Month: August 2021

The Metro says a woman has been arrested on suspicion of animal cruelty after allegedly throwing her ex’s cat into a river during an argument which got out of hand.

The Metro says parts of Donald Trump’s much-publicised border wall with Mexico have been severely damaged in monsoon rains.

The i says the leader of US extremist group the Proud Boys has been jailed for five months after tearing down a historic black church’s Black Lives Matter banner and burning it.

The i says a niece of former US President Donald Trump has accused him of “cheering on the chaos” in Afghanistan as fear and uncertainty continues to grip the impoverished nation.

The Guardian says Kathy Hochul, the first woman to become governor of New York state, will make her debut speech from the executive mansion in Albany on Tuesday

The Guardian says Igor Vovkovinskiy, the tallest man in the US, has died in Minnesota. He was 38.

The Daily Mail says the body of a missing 23-year-old hiker was found after a near two-month search on August 21 in a Montana rockslide with fatal injuries. 

It’s “unlikely” the August deadline to remove troops from Afghanistan will be extended, according to Ben Wallace.

Aljazeera says the Taliban blitzkrieg that dismantled 20 years of neocon and liberal imperialism in Afghanistan has also marked an ignoble end to all manners of pretences. Twenty years ago, the US pretended it was going to Afghanistan to dismantle the Taliban

The Economist says if the propagandists of the Taliban had scripted the collapse of America’s 20-year mission to reshape Afghanistan, they could not have come up with more harrowing images. As insurgents swept into Kabul.