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TRT World says Australia will expand its Covid-19 vaccination drive to include around one million children aged 12-15.

VOA says U.S. weather authorities warned Sunday that Tropical Storm Nicholas will bring heavy rain and potential flash flooding.

ESPN says the “Tommy and Gronky” show with Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady and tight end Rob Gronkowski picked up right where it left off.

NBC News says Logan Williams, a teen actor best known for his role as a young Barry Allen on the CW series “The Flash,” died of an accidental drug overdose in April 2020.

NBC says Twenty years later, Sally Regenhard still hasn’t buried her lost New York City firefighter son, Christian.

France24 says the Biden administration on Thursday sued Texas, seeking to block enforcement of a new law almost entirely banning abortion in the state.

Aljazeera says Philippine President Duterte’s daughter has declared that she will not run for the presidency in May 2022 but many remain sceptical.

Yahoo says former President Barack Obama is the latest high-profile figure to appear in an ad supporting Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and urging Californians to vote “no” in next Tuesday’s California recall election.

CBS says Republicans on the House Oversight and Reform Committee are investigating “possible undue White House influence” around the upcoming sale of Hunter Biden’s artwork

The Metro says more Americans think the September 11 terrorist attacks in the US changed the nation for the worse, as the 20th anniversary of the tragic day approaches.

VOA says law enforcement concerned by the prospect of violence at a rally are planning to reinstall protective fencing that surrounded the U.S. Capitol after the January 6 insurrection.

TRT World says a swath of the Florida panhandle has been placed under a tropical storm warning after Tropical Storm Mindy made landfall.

France24 says foreign countries greeted the makeup of the new government in Afghanistan with caution and dismay after the Taliban appointed hardline veteran figures to top positions.

The Independent says Greg Abbott has defended new abortion laws in Texas by saying victims of rape and incest will have “at least six weeks” to terminate their pregnancy.

The Seattle Times says King County has agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle the lawsuit of a 45-year-old woman who claims that when she was a teenage runaway 28 years ago, sheriff’s deputies left her at a Federal Way massage parlor where she was forced into prostitution.

The i says videos and pictures have emerged on social media of Taliban soldiers firing shots into the air to disperse crowds of protesters marching through Kabul.

The Guardian says a powerful earthquake has struck south-west Mexico near the beach resort of Acapulco, killing at least one man who was crushed by a falling post, and causing rock falls and damaging buildings.

France24 says the Taliban announced an interim government drawn exclusively from their own loyalist ranks, with established hardliners in all key posts and no women.

Arab News says more than 700 people died in Yemen’s southern city of Aden in August following the third wave of coronavirus in the war-torn country.

Aljazeera says a fire tore through an overcrowded block in a jail in Indonesia’s western Banten province, killing at least 41 people and injuring dozens.

TRT World says putschists who seized power in Guinea at the weekend have pledged to release “political detainees” held under ex-president Alpha Conde.

TRT World says Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has approved legislation which limits social media companies from removing content or accounts.

The Miami Herald says police are searching for one of the residents of a Miami home after finding another resident’s bloody, dead body around 5 a.m. Sunday.

IBTimes says a 10-year-old Texan girl is being hailed as a hero after she saved her grandmother who was allegedly set on fire by her abusive ex-boyfriend.

IndiaTV says Spanish Netflix series Money Heist has been ruling the popularity charts ever since the release of its fifth season