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With vaccinations in arms and the threat of COVID-19 easing in the U.S. free samples are back in stores after a hiatus that lasted more than a year. (July 8)

Kabul (AFP) – Photographer Rada Akbar's striking art is a declaration of her independence and heritage — but in Afghanistan that comes at a deadly risk. "The history of Afghan women didn't start after 2001. We have a long, rich history," says the 33-year-old.

The World Health Organization has called for quick actions to drive down infections of the novel coronavirus as its Delta variant strain has been detected in 104 countries and regions worldwide.

Haiti's ambassador to the United States, Bocchit Edmond, says “professional killers” speaking Spanish shot and killed Haitian President Jovenal Moise on Wednesday morning. He appealed to the international community for help to find them and bring them to justice, as VOA's Senior Diplomatic Correspondent Cindy Saine reports.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) compared officials carrying out President Joe Biden's latest Covid-19 vaccination push to Nazi-era "brown shirts," just weeks after apologizing for her comments comparing Capitol Hill mask-wearing rules to the Holocaust.

A neglected dog that was so hairy he was unrecognizable gets adopted. Jeanne Moos reports on the hairiest dog finding a forever home.

An explosion was heard and felt in Dubai as a large fire ripped through its Jebel Ali port which authorities said broke out in a ship's container anchored at the port. Authorities said there have been no deaths or injuries and that the fire is under control.

The stories are eerily similar. Soldiers came to their homes and demanded to know the whereabouts of their husbands, fathers or brothers, insisting the men were fighters with Tigrayan forces at war with the government of Ethiopia. When the men were nowhere to be found, soldiers attacked wives, daughters and sisters.

In a remote part of Syria's northeast, a few kilometers from the oil-rich town of Rumeilan, U.S. soldiers are busy helping local Kurdish forces ensure that militants affiliated with the Islamic State (IS) terror group do not again pose a threat to the region.