Year: 2021

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.

The Guardian says for Donald Trump, the former US president, beating the drum of “America first” was something of an obsession. “The future doesn’t belong to the globalists,” he once told the UN. “The future belongs to patriots.”

The New York Times says Taliban fighters brandished Kalashnikovs and shook their fists in the air after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, defying American warnings that if they did not hand over Osama Bin Laden, their country would be bombed to smithereens.

The heavy rainfall behind deadly flooding in Europe in July was made more likely by climate change, scientists say.

The Metro says popular fast food restaurant McDonald’s is struggling with supply issues and is currently unable to serve milkshakes in all of its UK restaurants.

The i says hopeful UK travellers are already changing their plans ahead of this week’s expected travel update amid speculation that Jamaica and Morocco could be added to the red list.