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A Peloton logo is seen on an exercise bike after the ringing of the opening bell for the company's IPO at the Nasdaq Market site in New York City, New York, U.S.
U.S. regulators probe Peloton over treadmill injuries

Peloton Interactive Inc said on Friday U.S. regulators were investigating the company, adding to the exercise bike maker's woes as it deals with a backlash over reports of accidents involving its treadmills.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki addresses the bombings in Afghanistan during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S
Official guidance for COVID booster shot remains eight months - White House

Official U.S. guidance about when to get a COVID booster shot remains eight months after the last one, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Friday.

Lyubov Sobol, a Russian opposition figure and a close ally of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, speaks with journalists after a court hearing in Moscow, Russia
Close ally of Kremlin critic Navalny appears on social media after reports of fleeing Russia

Lyubov Sobol, a prominent ally of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, appeared on social media on Thursday after what she called "a rather complex nose surgery", nearly three weeks after reports she had left Russia.

Injured people arrive at a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan
Pentagon bracing for more attacks after troops killed at Kabul airport

American forces in Kabul were bracing for more Islamic State attacks while winding up their evacuation mission, U.S. officials said, as the number of U.S. troops killed in Thursday's suicide bomb attack rose to 13.

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Law enforcement officers from Washington's Metropolitan Police Department, the U.S. Capitol Police, the Pentagon Force Protection Agency and other police departments salute as a ceremonial procession in honor of a police officer wounded
Seven U.S. Capitol police sue Trump, say he incited deadly attack

Seven U.S. Capitol Police officers on Thursday sued former President Donald Trump, alleging that he conspired with far-right extremist groups to provoke the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Congress.

Thai former superintendent, Thitisan Uttanapol, 39, accused in torturing and killing a drug suspect in Nakhon Sawan, is detained at Crime Suppression Division in Bangkok, Thailand
Thai police submit to questioning after video of killing of suspect goes viral

Two Thai police suspected of being involved in torturing to death a man charged with drug offences gave themselves up for questioning on Thursday after a video of the incident went viral in a case likely to test the resolve of the judicial system.

A Polish soldier builds a fence on the border between Poland and Belarus near the village of Nomiki, Poland
On the EU's eastern border, Poland builds a fence to stop migrants

Polish soldiers were building a fence on the border with Belarus on Thursday, as the European Union's largest eastern member takes steps to curb illegal border crossings despite criticism that some migrants are being treated inhumanely.

'Profound abuse': Judge disciplines pro-Trump lawyers over election lawsuit

A U.S. judge on Wednesday sanctioned Sidney Powell and other lawyers who sued in Michigan to overturn Democratic President Joe Biden's election victory over Donald Trump, and suggested they might deserve to lose their law licenses.

An overview of the Hamid Karzai International Airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan August 24, 2021, in this satellite image obtained by Reuters on
Factbox: What is Islamic State in Afghanistan?

Following are some facts about the Afghan affiliate of Islamic State, which U.S. officials believe was behind suspected suicide bomb attacks outside Kabul airport that killed https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/explosion-outside-kabul-airport-casualties-unclear-pentagon-2021-08-26 at least 13 people:

Senator Marco Rubio, a Republican from Florida, listens during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S.
U.S. Senator Rubio demands answers on Huawei's auto chip approvals

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio on Thursday released a statement "demanding answers" from the Biden Administration about a Reuters report the U.S. has approved license applications worth hundreds of millions of dollars for China's Huawei to buy chips for its growing auto business.

A screen grab shows people carrying an injured person to a hospital after an attack at Kabul airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan
Dozens of civilians, at least 13 U.S. troops killed in Kabul airport attack

Islamic State struck the crowded gates of Kabul airport in a suicide bomb attack on Thursday, killing scores of civilians and at least 13 U.S. troops, disrupting the airlift of tens of thousands of Afghans desperate to flee.

Cut off from escape, an Afghan hip-hop dancer fears for his life

With less than a week until the U.S. withdrawal from Kabul, an Afghan hip-hop dancer sees little chance of escape and fears he will be killed by the Taliban.

Injured people arrive at a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan
Pentagon bracing for more attacks after troops killed at Kabul airport

American forces in Kabul were bracing for more Islamic State attacks while winding up their evacuation mission, U.S. officials said, as the number of U.S. troops killed in Thursday's suicide bomb attack rose to 13.

Former Afghan Communication Minister Sayed Sadaat rides a bicycle for his food delivery service job with Lieferando in Leipzig, Germany,
The Afghan minister who became a bicycle courier in Germany

Sayed Sadaat used to be communications minister in the Afghan government before moving to Germany last September in the hope of a better future. Now he is a delivery man in the eastern city of Leipzig.

The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) logo is seen on a building in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Canada's ruling Liberals vow higher taxes on big bank profits to help fund COVID-19 recovery

Canada's ruling Liberal Party said on Wednesday that if re-elected it would raise corporate taxes on the most profitable banks and insurers to help pay for the cost of the COVID-19 recovery.

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