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The U.S. has frozen nearly $9.5 billion in assets belonging to the Afghan central bank and stopped shipments of cash to the nation as it tries to keep a Taliban-led government from accessing the money, an administration official confirmed Tuesday. The official said that any central bank assets that the Afghan government has in the U.S. will not be available to the Taliban, which remains on the Treasury Department’s sanctions designation list.

Source: aljazeera.com

Researchers say climate change is driving the melting, which has seen Kebnekaise lose more than 20 metres in height since the mid-1990s.

Source: theguardian.com

Aspirin may help fight aggressive breast cancer by making hard-to-treat tumours more responsive to anti-cancer drugs, doctors say. A team at the Christie NHS Foundation Trust, in Manchester, are beginning a trial with triple-negative breast-cancer patients. They suspect it is aspirin's anti-inflammatory properties rather than its analgesic effect that gives the boost. Animal studies have already shown encouraging results.

Source: bbc.com

Three people were killed Tuesday when a Turkish air raid hit a clinic in northwest Iraq, a region Ankara regularly targets in operations against Kurdish separatists, security and medical sources said.

Source: france24.com

Iran has made progress in its work on enriched uranium metal, the UN nuclear watchdog said in a report to member states, despite Western warnings that such work threatens talks on reviving the Iran nuclear deal. The United States responded to the report by demanding that Tehran halt its “nuclear escalations”.

Source: aljazeera.com

Rescue work following the deadly earthquake which struck Haiti on Saturday has been hampered by heavy rains brought by Tropical Storm Grace. Tens of thousands of people left homeless by the quake had to decide whether to brave the storm under flimsy tarpaulins or risk returning into buildings damaged by the tremor. At least 1,419 people are known to have died in the 7.2-magnitude quake. More than 6,900 were injured, and an unknown number are still missing.

Source: bbc.com

Tammy Abraham has completed his move to Roma from Chelsea. The England forward joined former Blues boss Jose Mourinho in the Italian capital in a deal worth 40 million euros. In a statement, Roma said that Abraham had signed a five-year contract and that Chelsea would "retain the right to a percentage of any future transfer fee involving the striker". Italian media report that the 23-year-old, who will wear the number nine jersey left vacant by Edin Dzeko's transfer to Inter Milan, will earn 4.5 million euros net each season.

Source: france24.com

Archaeologists in the ancient city of Pompeii have discovered a remarkably well-preserved skeleton during excavations of a tomb that also shed light on the cultural life of the city before it was destroyed by a volcanic eruption in AD 79. White hair and part of an ear, along with bones and fabric fragments, were found in the tomb in the necropolis of Porta Sarno. The discovery is unusual since most adults were cremated at the time.

Source: apnews.com

The 6,000-plus islands that make up the Japanese archipelago have a new addition, after scientists said an undersea volcanic eruption 1,200km south of Tokyo had created a new landmass. But crescent-shaped landmass 50km south of Minami Ioto could disappear due to erosion.

Source: theguardian.com

U.S. officials for the first time on Monday issued an official water shortage declaration for the massive Western reservoir of Lake Mead, triggering supply cuts to parts of the drought-stricken Southwest. The shortage will reduce water apportionments to Arizona, Nevada and Mexico for the year beginning in October, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation said in a statement.

Source: france24.com

Poland will dismantle a judges' disciplinary chamber as part of wider judiciary reforms in coming months, the government said on Tuesday after the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that the disciplinary mechanism undercuts EU law.

Source: reuters.com

Protesters attacked the home of Lebanon's prime minister-designate after a petrol tank explosion killed 27 people and injured 79 others on Sunday. Dozens of demonstrators demanded Najib Mikati's resignation, threw stones at his house and clashed with police. The army said the explosion occurred as soldiers handed out petrol seized from black marketeers in the Akkar region. The cause of the blast was not clear, but a large crowd was gathered around the tank at the time, it added.

Source: bbc.com

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday discussed the collapse of Afghanistan's Western-backed government with China and Russia, frequent US adversaries that have moved quickly to work with the Taliban. The State Department said Blinken spoke separately with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to discuss the security situation and efforts to evacuate people to safety.

Source: france24.com

Jeff Bezos's space firm Blue Origin is suing Nasa over a decision to award a $2.9bn (£2.1bn) lunar lander contract to Elon Musk's SpaceX. The former Amazon boss's firm said there were "fundamental issues" with the deal, calling it unfair. The row stems from a decision in April to hand the deal to one company, not two as expected, because of a funding shortfall.

Source: bbc.com

Four bouquets of flowers have been found in the ruined city of  Teotihuacan (Mexico). Archaeologists found them while exploring a tunnel under a pyramid. They may have been offerings to the god  Quetzalcóatl 1,800 years ago.

Source: dailymail.co.uk

A party boat in Texas capsized during a strong thunderstorm, leading to the death of one person, officials said. The boat capsized Saturday on Lake Conroe, in Conroe, Texas, about 40 miles north of Houston. Karl Katzenberger, 80, of Montgomery, Texas, was pulled from the water and transported to a hospital, where he died.

Source: nbcnews.com

Britain’s defence secretary Ben Wallace broke down in tears during an interview on Monday, admitting the UK may not be able to get all the remaining UK nationals and their local allies out of Afghanistan. The Operation Pitting rescue operation, involving 600 troops, is attempting to evacuate around 4,000 British nationals and eligible Afghans out of Kabul in the coming days.

Source: independent.co.uk

Barcelona started La Liga 2021-22 with a 4-2 victory over Real Sociedad at the Camp Nou, in the first game after Lionel Messi departure to Paris Saint-Germain. Martin Braithwaite was the star of the night after scoring a brace for the 20,284 fans who went to the stadium on Saturday.

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