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Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, commander of US Central Command, announced the completion of US withdrawal from Afghanistan as the last US military planes have left the country.

CNN's Jason Carroll surveys the damage Hurricane Ida left behind in Houma, Louisiana, a city approximately an hour outside New Orleans.

Since Kabul fell to the Taliban, Reza Jafari has been desperately fighting to get Afghans on French evacuation flights from Afghanistan. CNN followed him as he reunited with some of those he helped rescue.

Kuwait City (AFP) – In the north of Kuwait, a 2-square-kilometre (0.7-square-mile) dump has become known as the place where tyres go to die, with some 40 million of them piling up. Now the oil-rich Gulf country has plans to transform the “tyre graveyard” into a site for residential properties.

The key to contain the further spread of the novel coronavirus is to promote vaccination programs on larger scales and forge broader cooperation among global health professionals, said a health expert from Yale University.

Hurricane Ida, which has now weakened to a tropical storm, made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane near Port Fourchon, Louisiana on August 29.

Former US Ambassador-at-Large Susan Coppedge explains what she believes will be the next focus of anti-trafficking efforts.

The United States is investigating whether civilians may have been killed in an air strike it launched to destroy a car laden with explosives in the Afghan capital Kabul. Witnesses and some media reports say a number of children were among those killed in Sunday's air strike in the crowded capital, where thousands of Afghans are still trying to flee the Taliban.

Brize Norton (United Kingdom) (AFP) – The British ambassador to Afghanistan Laurie Bristow vows that the UK "will be putting pressure on the Taliban to allow safe passage" for the "Afghans and British nationals who still need our support" and that the UK will reopen the embassy, which will now operate from Qatar, "as soon as we can".