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German Chancellor Angela Merkel condemns the “heinous” attack outside Kabul airport on people seeking evacuation from Afghanistan that left at least six dead.

Les Cayes (Haiti) (AFP) – In a makeshift camp that serves as a refuge for many women since Haiti’s earthquake, survivors say they fear for their safety and children. “We suffer, we have no access to toilets. We can’t pee. Everyone is looking at you,” says Vesta Guerrier.

Dublin (AFP) – French President Emmanuel Macron says the French ambassador to Afghanistan will continue his mission but from Paris.

Cagliari (Italy) (AFP) – A baby dolphin is rescued by coast guards on the Italian island of Sardinia after getting trapped in a nylon net.

Tumaco (Colombia) (AFP) – The Colombian Navy has intercepted 1.2 tonnes of cocaine bound to Central America on a Go-Fast boat in the Pacific Ocean on Narino Province.

Chester (United Kingdom) (AFP) – The endangered Lake Titicaca frog is making its debut at Chester Zoo, in the north of England. It’s the world’s largest aquatic frog, and takes its name from the lake where it lives on the border of Bolivia and Peru – but thanks to its unusual look means the animal is better known by its nickname ‘scrotum’ frog.

London (AFP) – Tortoise callipers and camel scales are put to good use at ZSL London Zoo, which is holding its annual animal weigh-in. While keepers put on a show for the cameras, it is important that the zoo keeps up-to-date size and weight information on its animals to compare them with animals in the wild and in other zoos, as well as to have an indication of which animals are pregnant.

Garden Grove (United States) (AFP) – Vietnamese American refugee Phat Bui, who fled Saigon in 1975 following the US evacuation and the city’s fall, says that watching the chaotic scenes out of Kabul “brings back a lot of memories.”

Brasília (AFP) – Thousands of indigenous people march in Brazil’s capital to protest far-right President Jair Bolsonaro’s policies and an initiative that could take away their ancestral lands.

Topaga, Boyaca Department (Colombia) (AFP) – Emergency workers, ambulances and mourning relatives of victims are seen near the site of an explosion in an illegal coal mine that left 12 people dead in the Colombian department of Boyaca.

New Orleans (AFP) – On a long ribbon of land between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, industrial pollution puts the area’s mostly African-American residents at nearly 50 times the risk of cancer than the United States average. 

Hanoi (AFP) – Vice President Kamala Harris says the US will find new ways to “raise the pressure on Beijing”, accusing China of bullying in the hotly disputed Asian waters for the second time in two days. China claims almost all of the resource-rich South China Sea, through which trillions of dollars in shipping trade passes annually, with competing claims from four Southeast Asian states including Vietnam. Harris made the comments on a visit to Vietnam to stress US commitment to Asia, a trip critics have slammed as tone-deaf given the parallels with the superpower’s evacuations from Saigon and Kabul.