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Ahead of U.S. Independence Day on July 4th, President Joe Biden hosted a naturalization ceremony for new Americans at the White House. His administration is also launching a governmentwide effort aimed at encouraging millions of immigrants to apply to become U.

U.S. forces have left Bagram airfield, the main American base in Afghanistan, and handed control over to Afghan National Security Forces. But as VOA Pentagon correspondent Carla Babb reports, that does not mean the American troop withdrawal is complete.

Nearly 20 years after invading Afghanistan to oust the Taliban and hunt down al-Qaida, the U.S. military has vacated its biggest airfield in the country, advancing a final withdrawal that the Pentagon said will be completed by the end of August.

The pilots of a cargo plane that made an emergency water landing off the coast of Honolulu, Hawaii, told air traffic controllers one of their engines had failed moments before the flight went down, according to LiveATC recordings reviewed by CNN.

Afghans say international forces are leaving a country deeply impoverished, on the brink of another civil war. While even the Taliban is encouraging Afghans to stay in the country, concerns remain over how women and girls will be treated. (July 2)

President Joe Biden grew irritated when questioned about the state of Afghanistan, where a formal withdrawal is nearly complete, and a major US air base was officially handed over even as US generals warn of a looming civil war.

Vorkuta is slowly becoming a ghost town. Every year, another 2,000 people leave this city in the Arctic. Natalia Tsvirko would like to stay. Nine years ago, she opened a beauty salon.

In 2015, a mysterious disease killed 90% of the Saiga antelope in the steppe of Central Kazakhstan. Experts feared they'd all be lost. But those fears have turned to hope: there's a baby boom on the steppe.

A series of animated shorts teaching U.S. civics from executive producers Barack and Michelle Obama debuts July 4 on Netflix. Rick Damigella reports.

El Salvador recently played its crypto hand, making bitcoin a legal tender despite the concerns of the International Monetary Fund.