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Tuesday 21 September 2021 08:04 BST

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AFGHANISTAN — Taliban appoint deputy ministers in all-male government. SENT: 190 words, photos.

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UN-GENERAL-ASSEMBLY — World leaders will be back at the United Nations for the first time in two years with a formidable agenda of escalating crises to tackle, including the still raging COVID-19 pandemic and a relentlessly warming planet. By Edith M. Lederer. SENT: 760 words, photo. With UN-GENERAL-ASSEMBLY-THE LATEST.

UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY-BIDEN — President Joe Biden plans to use his first address before the U.N. General Assembly to reassure the international community of American leadership on the global stage and call on allies to move quickly and cooperatively to address the festering issues of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and human rights abuses. By Aamar Madhani and Josh Boak. SENT: 990 words, photos. UPCOMING: 1,100 words after 10 a.m. speech.

BORDER-MIGRANT CAMP — The options remaining for thousands of Haitian migrants straddling the Mexico-Texas border are narrowing as the United States government ramps up to an expected six expulsion flights to Haiti and Mexico began busing some away from the border. More than 6,000 Haitians and other migrants had been removed from an encampment at Del Rio, Texas, U.S. officials say as they defended a strong response that included immediately expelling migrants to their impoverished Caribbean country and faced criticism for using horse patrols to stop them from entering the town. By Juan A. Lozano, Eric Gay, Elliot Spagat and Maria Verza. SENT: 970 words, photos, videos.

BORDER-HAITIAN DIASPORA — The route for Haitian migrants camped under a bridge in a small Texas border town goes through South America. Many flew to Brazil or Chile and, after jobs dried up, made an arduous journey to the U.S. border to wait in Mexican cities for the right time to enter the United States and claim asylum. Thousands camped in Del Rio, Texas, face a choice: Return to Mexico or risk the possibility of getting expelled to Haiti by the Biden administration on flights that are ramping up to seven a day. By Julie Watson, Juan A. Lozano and Elliot Spagat. SENT: 1,230 words, photos, video.

AFGHANISTAN-FATAL FLIGHT — It’s an image that has come to symbolize America’s chaotic end to 20 years of war in Afghanistan: a lumbering U.S. Air Force C-17 taking off from Kabul’s International Airport, chased by thousands of desperate Afghan men, scrambling to get on the departing aircraft and escape Taliban rule. As the plane gains altitude and its wheels retract, the world watches in horror as what appears to be two men, who had been clinging to the aircraft, plunge to earth. More than a month later, much remains unclear about what happened in that tragic takeoff on Aug. 16, a day after the Taliban swept into Kabul. By Kathy Gannon. SENT: 1,120 words, photos.

CANADA-ELECTION — Canadians gave Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party a victory in parliamentary elections, but his gamble to win a majority of seats failed and the result was remarkably similar to the election two years ago. By Rob Gillies. SENT: 1,100 words, photos.

CHINA-FIGHTING-THE-VIRUS — China’s “zero tolerance” strategy of trying to isolate every case and stop transmission of the coronavirus has kept the country where the virus first was detected in late 2019 largely free of the disease. But the public and businesses are paying a steep price. By Joe McDonald and Huizhong Wu. SENT: 1,210 words, photos.

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