2nd-seeded Kontaveit Beats Begu In Cleveland Final

Secondseeded Anett Kontaveit of Estonia won the Tennis in the Land final Saturday for her second WTA Tour title, beating IrinaCamelia Begu of Romania 76 (5), 64.

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Amazon strikes a deal with Affirm, the buy-now pay-later provider.

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Woman Sentenced to 7 Days in Jail for Walking in Yellowstone’s Thermal Area

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Sex Assault Survivor To NJ Candidate: Take Down Video Of Me

A former government official who says she is a sexual assault survivor is demanding that the New Jersey Republican gubernatorial candidate stop using her story as a political prop in a campaign video that bashes Gov. Phil Murphy.

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US Evacuates Over 109K People From Afghanistan Since Aug 14, Says White House

The US has evacuated and facilitated the shifting of approximately 109,200 people from the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul since August 14, the White House has said. It also said that the US evacuated approximately 4,200 people in 12 hours on Friday, following the deadly suicide attack near the Kabul airport on Thursday.

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Any Sustainable Solution In Afghanistan Must Include Pakistan: US Senator

Any sustainable solution in Afghanistan must include Pakistan, a senior Republican Senator has said. We all must remember (that) Pakistan is a nuclear-armed nation, and there is a Pakistan version of the Taliban who wishes to topple the Pakistani government and military, Senator Lindsay Graham tweeted, in an apparent reference to Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

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Aaj Ka Panchang, August 28, 2021: Check Out Tithi, Shubh Muhurat, Rahu Kaal and Other Details on Balaram Jayanti

Aaj Ka Panchang, August 28, 2021: Ahead of Krishna Janmashtami, the Shashthi Tithi is observed as Balaram Jayanti.

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Study Links Delta With More Hospitalisations

London (AP) A new British study suggests people who get COVID-19 from the extra-contagious delta variant are about twice as likely to be hospitalised than those who caught an earlier version of the coronavirus. The delta variant spreads much more easily than the alpha variant that previously was widespread in much of the world. But whether it also causes more severe disease is unclear, something hard to tease out - in part because delta took off just as many countries relaxed their pandemic restrictions even as large swaths of the population remained unvaccinated..

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COVID-19 'Not Developed' As Biological Weapon, Says US Intelligence Community

SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, was "not developed" as a biological weapon, the US intelligence community has concluded in a report, with President Joe Biden reiterating the allegation that China continues to reject calls for transparency and withhold information about the origins of the virus. The Director of National Intelligence in a report, prepared at the direction of the president, on Friday said SARS-CoV-2 probably emerged and infected humans through an initial small-scale exposure that occurred no later than November 2019 with the first known cluster of COVID-19 cases arising in Wuhan, China in December 2019.

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Biden suggests booster shots could be given sooner than eight months after vaccination.

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A heavily fortified C.I.A. base in Kabul has been destroyed.

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David Grossman’s New Novel Is a Multigenerational Saga of Love and Loss

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Stephen B. Oates, Civil War Historian, Dies at 85

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