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An Afghan NGO Worker Worries About How Her Family Will Obtain Visas To Leave

4:35pm August 20, 2021

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with an Afghan NGO employee who was able to leave the country under a special immigrant visa. Her relatives and colleagues, however, are stuck in limbo.

Loved Ones Mourn The Death Of Afghan Teen Who Fell From U.S. Evacuation Plane

4:35pm August 20, 2021

Zaki Anwari, a member of Afghanistan's youth soccer team, died this week as he tried to cling to a U.S. military plane evacuating people from Kabul. He is remembered as a "very good human."

Remembering Japanese Martial Arts Star Sonny Chiba, Who Died Of COVID At 82

4:35pm August 20, 2021

by Andrew Limbong

Sonny Chiba was a prolific actor known for his Japanese martial arts movies, which featured his brutal movements and fearsome facial expressions. Chiba died at age 82 due to complications from COVID.

Biden Pledges To Get Americans And Afghan Allies Out Of Afghanistan

4:27pm August 20, 2021

by Scott Detrow

President Biden spoke about evacuations in Afghanistan Friday, pledging to Americans in the country: "We will get you home." He also stated a commitment to get afghans who assisted the U.S. out.

Gen. Petraeus On Whether The CIA Knew How Quickly The Afghan Government Would Fall

3:55pm August 20, 2021

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Gen. David Petraeus about whether the CIA and U.S. intelligence knew the Taliban were moving rapidly and that the Afghan government would fall so quickly.

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COVID-19 vaccines from COVAX, the international vaccine-sharing program, arrive in Khartoum, Sudan, on Aug. 5. In a letter to President Biden, health experts are asking him to take action to manufacture and distribute vaccines to the entire world.

They're Asking Biden To Vaccinate The World. It's Not Fair. But It's Not Impossible

12:22pm August 20, 2021

by Joanne Lu

An open letter from 175 experts to President Biden made the ask. "We're not trying to be unreasonable," explains Dr. Paul Farmer, one of the signers. "We're trying to be optimistic and audacious."

A researcher looks at a canyon created by a meltwater stream on the glacial ice sheet in Greenland in 2013.

Rain Fell On The Peak Of Greenland's Ice Sheet For The First Time In Recorded History

11:49am August 20, 2021

by Joe Hernandez

According to scientists, rain fell for several hours on an area 10,551 feet in elevation on Aug. 14, an unprecedented occurrence for a location that rarely sees temperatures above freezing.

A young fans searches through Topps Baseball cards prior to the game between the Los Angeles Angels and the Kansas City Royals on Sunday April 28, 2019, at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo.

MLB Is Ending Its 70-Year Partnership With Baseball Card Manufacturer Topps

10:12am August 20, 2021

by Jaclyn Diaz

Fanatics is expected to be the new partner with MLB to manufacture trading cards, edging out baseball's long-time partner, Topps.

Hundreds of people are living in a makeshift tent city inside the main soccer stadium in Les Cayes, Haiti, following the 7.2 magnitude earthquake.

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Haitians Who Have Lost Their Homes Are Living On A Muddy Soccer Field

9:45am August 20, 2021

by Jason Beaubien

The soccer stadium in the Haitian seaside town of Les Cayes is now a tent city of people whose homes were damaged or destroyed by the earthquake. Aid continues to arrive, but slowly.

Vice President Harris, seen here in the White House Rose Garden earlier this month, will visit Singapore and Vietnam, her second foreign trip while in office.

Vice President Harris Heads To Vietnam As The Shadow Of Afghanistan Looms

8:21am August 20, 2021

by Ayesha Rascoe

The long-planned trip is now complicated by the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, which is drawing comparisons to the fall of Saigon in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.