Joe Biden, the President of the United States, said Tuesday that the U.S. would provide over $11 billion of climate aid yearly by 2024 to assist poorer nations susceptible to extreme weather and rising temperatures. However, Biden didn’t specify in his speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations how he plans to influence Congress to surge aid from a formerly announced $5.7 billion commitment, which doubles the aid levels of Obama-era.

The relative prudence from the United States on climate aid seen as a key difficulty to secure a more ambitious move as nations head into November international climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland. However, how the president will realize his promise to quadruple the United States climate aid is an open question, telling the GA that his government will collaborate with Congress to achieve that target. Biden also said that the U.S. also has to support the nations that will be hit the toughest and have the fewest resources to help them acclimatize.

The president said that spending mutual with empowering private financing would bring rich nations closer to the $100 billion in yearly climate finance it pledged to poorer countries. In addition, it will make the United States the leader of public climate finance. Moreover, the climate conference of the United Nations seen as a political crisis moment for the global bid to keep temperatures from rising 1.5 °C above preindustrial levels. Last week, the United Nations said that accomplishing present commitments to decrease greenhouse gases would still warm the Earth at 2.7 °C in 2100.

Countries Pressurized the U.S. to Boost Climate Aid Targets

In recent weeks, countries worldwide increased pressure on the United States to lift climate aid targets. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development, rich countries fell over $20 billion short of meeting a previous 2009 promise to supply poorer countries with $100 billion of annual climate assistance. Republican leaders historically avoided doling out more money for world climate initiatives.

A senior administration official told POLITICO that no agency is responsible for hitting this aim and will provide funds through the full range of channels, meaning the United States could lean on multilateral and bilateral funding such as development banks. The official further said the announcement sets a crucial goal for agencies as the 2022 fiscal year assumptions and fiscal year 2023 budget cycle approach.

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Iran wants to restart nuclear dialogues with world leaders that would lead to withdrawal of United States sanctions, Ebrahim Raisi and the Iranian President told the annual United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly on Tuesday as talks about restoring a 2015 nuclear deal stuck. Raisi said in his pre-recorded speech, and the Islamic Republic considers the useful dialogues whose eventual outcome is the lifting of all unfair United States sanctions.

#Iran nuclear chief (in @IAEAOrg annual general conference): Now is the time for US to correct its wrong policies & first lift all sanctions in a practical, effective & verifiable manner. President Raisi has stated that Iran wants result-oriented talks aimed at lifting sanctions. pic.twitter.com/jRf5ZpXp2P

— Abas Aslani (@AbasAslani) September 20, 2021

He said that the American policy of maximum cruelty is still on. Further, he adds that Iran wants nothing more than what is legal of Iran. He also demands the execution of international rules. All stakeholders must stay true to the 2015 nuclear pact and the United Nations Resolution in practice. In April. The United States and Iran began indirect dialogs in Vienna on retrieving the nuclear deal, but those stopped two days after Raisi elected as the President of Iran in June.

Under the 2015 nuclear agreement, Iran restricted its uranium enrichment program, a feasible way to nuclear arms, in return for the removal of United States, United Nations, and European Union sanctions. However, former American President Donald Trump quit the pact three years ago and re-executed harsh sanctions on Iran’s financial and oil sectors that halt its economy. Hardline minister Raisi, who is under American personal sanctions over allegations of human rights abuses formerly when he was working as a judge, said the American sanctions were crimes against humanity during the deadly COVID-19 pandemic.

Why Tehran Violated the Nuclear Pact’s Limits?

In 2018, former U.S. President Donald Trump reimposed sanctions on Iran, and it prompted Iran to violate the nuclear pact’s limits. Now Tehran says that if Washington lifts all sanctions, it will reverse its nuclear steps. Raisi echoed Tehran’s official stance for several years and said nuclear weapons have no place in discouragement policy and defense policy. On Tuesday, Iran signaled that the dialogues in Vienna would recommence in some weeks without mentioning a specific date.

Despite Tehran’s need to boost and reinforces its economy by negotiating an end to the United States sanctions, insiders expect Raisi to adopt a harder line when the dialogues resume. Western and Iranian officials said several issues remain to be resolved before the pact could be revived. Moreover, a strident critic of the West said the U.S. had no credibility to impose its supremacy.

Further, he said that from the U.S. Capitol to Afghan capital Kabul, an open message was sent to the world: the hegemonic system of the U.S. has no credibility, whether inside or outside the country. Raisi referred to the 6th January riot by former president Trump’s supporters on the United States Capitol, and the chaotic pull out of American-led forces from Afghanistan after the Taliban insurgents captured Kabul on 15th August.

The U.S. will Prevent Iran from Getting Nukes – Biden

On Tuesday, President Biden told the United Nations General Assembly in New York that the U.S. will stop Iran from getting nuclear nukes. At the same time, he reiterated his intention to return to the 2015 Iran nuclear accord. Biden, who pledged to depend on diplomacy in global affairs, said the U.S. remains committed to preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. Additionally, he adds that the U.S. is working with the P5+1 to engage the Islamic Republic diplomatically and seek a return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

During his 2020 presidential campaign, U.S. President rejected former president Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the 2015 nuclear accord and vowed to return if Iran stopped its tit-for-tat activities since 2019 violating the nuclear deal. Biden administration entered indirect dialogs with Iran in April to reach a pact on how both countries could restore the JCPOA, still the dialogues until now failed to make a breakthrough. Envoys were expecting a meeting of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action members this week in New York. However, since Monday, both Iran and the E.U. said only two-sided dialogues would take place.

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The United Nations (U.N.) says Afghanistan’s Taliban challenged the credentials of Afghanistan’s ex-U.N. ambassador and are requesting to speak at the high-level meeting of the General Assembly of U.N. consisting of world leaders that started Tuesday. Moreover, the question now facing United Nations officials comes just more than a month after the Taliban withdrew from Afghanistan by the U.S. and its coalition partners after the 9/11 attacks, after they seized Kabul as American forces prepared to pull out from the country at the August end.

Taliban ask to speak at UN General Assembly in New York: The group wants to address world leaders, weeks after ousting Afghanistan’s former government. pic.twitter.com/vwhdndgfFe

— King Tri-Zi (@KingTriZi) September 21, 2021

Furthermore, the Taliban insurgents stunned the world by recapturing power with surprising speed and small resistance from the American-trained Afghan military. As a result, the Western-backed Afghan government collapsed on 15th August. Stephane Dujarric, the spokesperson of the United Nations, said Secretary-General of U.N. Antonio Guterres received communication on 15th September from the current official Afghan Ambassador, Ghulam Isaczai, with the list of the delegation of Afghanistan for the seventy-sixth annual session for the assembly.

After five days, Guterres received additional communication with the letterhead of Afghanistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, signed by Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ameer Khan Muttaqi, requesting to participate in the United Nations gathering of international leaders. In the letter, Muttaqi said that Ashraf Ghani, the former Afghan President overthrew as of 15th August and that nations all over the world no longer recognize him as president. Dujarric further said that for this reason, Isaczai no longer represents the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

Who will be the next U.N. permanent representative of Afghanistan?

The United Nations spokesperson said that the Taliban announced that it was nominating a new permanent representative of the United Nations, Mohammad Suhail Shaheen. In addition, he has been a spokesperson for the insurgents during peace negotiations in Qatar. Senior United States State Department officials said that they were aware of the request of the Taliban – the U.S. is a member of the credentials committee of the United Nations – but they wouldn’t foresee how that panel might rule.

However, one of the G.A. officials said the committee would take a spell of time to deliberate, suggesting the diplomat of Taliban wouldn’t be able to speak at the G.N. at this session, at least during the week of high-level leaders. In cases of clashes over seats at the U.N., the nine-member credentials committee of the General Assembly meets to make a decision. The members of the committee are the United States, China, Sweden, Bhutan, Russia, Chile, Sierra Leone, Chile, and Bahama.

Afghanistan is scheduled to give the last speech on the last day of the high-level meeting on 27th September. But it was not clear who would speak in if the committee met and the Taliban leaders were given Afghanistan’s seat in General Assembly. During the previous rule of the Taliban from 1996 to 2001, the United Nations refused to recognize their government and instead gave the seat of Afghanistan to the previous president Burhanuddin Rabbani, who finally killed in a suicide attack in 2011. The government of Rabbani brought Osama bin Laden, the brain behind the 9/11 attacks, to Afghanistan from Sudan in 1996.

Taliban want International Recognition

Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders said that they want global recognition and also financial aid to rebuild the country. However, the establishment of the new Taliban government poses a problem for the U.N. Many of the Afghan interim ministers are on the blacklist of the United Nations. Credentials Committee members could also use the recognition of the Taliban as leverage to influence a more comprehensive government that guarantees basic human rights, especially for women who were barred from getting an education and go to work during the Taliban’s previous rule.

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On Wednesday, the White House said that it asked eighteen Trump government appointees to resign from Military Academy Boards, saying U.S. President Joe Biden would require such officials to align with the ethics of this administration. According to the White House, the eighteen – six each on the Board of Visitors to the Air Force Academy, the Naval Academy, and the Military Academy – asked to resign.

BREAKING: A White House official confirms to NBC News that Trump appointees asked by the Biden administration to resign from military academy board positions have either resigned or had their positions terminated, reports @mikememoli.

— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) September 9, 2021

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The house further added that the officials would terminate them at 06:00 pm if they didn’t resign their positions. Those appointees asked to leave include Sean Spicer, a White House spokesman under former President Trump, Kellyanne Conway, White House counselor under a former Republican president. In reply to a question during the news briefing, Jen Psaki, the spokesman of White House, said that he would let others evaluate whether Sean Spicer and Kellyanne Conway and others qualified.

Members Declined to Resign on the Request of White House

The qualification requirements of Biden are not Republican party registration. They are whether qualified to serve and whether they are aligned with the standards of this government. Conway wrote in a letter to Joe Biden posted on Twitter that she is not resigning, but you should. Spicer, who works on the Board of Visitors to the United States Naval Academy, said he would not resign on the Newsmax program on Wednesday. Additionally, Spicer said that he would not be stepping down, and he would be going to fill a lawsuit to fight it.

Russ Vought, the former budget chief of former president Trump also denied quitting and argued that it is a three-year term. According to a notice of 2020 in the Federal Register, the boards provide recommendations and advice to the United States President Biden on matters including those related to instruction, discipline, fiscal affairs, morale, physical equipment, academic methods of the academies, and curriculum.

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Police said that they detained the suspect of a Virginia high school shooting Monday that wounded two seventeen-year-old students. Steve Drew, the Police Chief of Newport News, said a girl was shot in her lower leg, and a boy was shot on the side of his face at Heritage High School. The rescue teams bring them to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Drew said that two other people injured, having links with the shooting, and taken to a hospital. One individual had a broken or sprained arm, and an individual with asthma had breathing issues. Moreover, a fifth person might be transported to the hospital directly. Police said that the suspect was young, and it was not instantly clear if the shooter was a student.

Drew said law enforcement agencies believe there was some sort of alteration. The security officials received a call about a shooting inside Heritage High School at 11:38 am. Police officers responded, evacuated the children and staff from the school, and brought the victims to area hospitals. In the meantime, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and local and state police were searching the school for any staff or student still taking shelter, Drew said.

Schools have Shelter-in-place Drills Throughout the Year

Videos shared on social media platforms showed adults and students gathered by the fences. The city’s mental health counselors were on the scene to handle the situation—Superintendent of Newport News Public School. George Parker said that several folks really shocked by this matter. He added that no superintendent, no principal, no teacher would ever want to experience this situation – just seeing the faces of innocent students and how afraid they and staff were under these situations.

Parker said that the schools all over the state regularly run random security checks using metal detectors and dogs. Likewise, the schools have shelter-in-place drills all over the school year. He adds that they will temporarily switch the students to virtual learning. According to Newport News Public Schools, around thirteen hundred students attend Heritage High School. On 8th September, students will return to in-person classes at the southeastern end of the Virginia Peninsula, just north of Norfolk.

In a tweet, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam praised the first responders for their heroic work in Newport News. Further, he adds that prayers are with victims and their families, and the entire community. Northam says that Virginia took great steps to reduce gun violence.

Pam and I are grateful to the first responders for their heroic work today in Newport News. Our prayers are with those hospitalized, their families, and the entire community. Virginia has made great strides to reduce gun violence—and we have more work to do.

— Governor Ralph Northam (@GovernorVA) September 20, 2021

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Joe Biden, the President of the United States, intended to use his first address before the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) to encourage other countries of American leadership on the world stage and urged allies to move swiftly and cooperatively to tackle the festering issue of the coronavirus pandemic, human rights abuses, and climate change.

On Monday evening, the president reached New York to meet with Antonio Guterres, the Secretary-General, ahead of his Tuesday’s address, and he offered a full-throated authorization of the relevance and ambition of the body at a difficult moment in history. Biden returned to his mantra that “America is back” – a phrase meant to condense his promise to take an intensely different tack with associates than former president Donald Trump.

As I said during tonight’s meeting with UN Secretary General António Guterres: global challenges require global solutions. We believe in the United Nations and its value. And at this moment, our bond — based on common values and principles — is more important than ever. pic.twitter.com/H7G1GAXopQ

— President Biden (@POTUS) September 21, 2021

President Biden said that the vision of the UN has never been short on the drive, any over the U.S. Constitution. However, Biden was facing a strong measure of skepticism from partners during his week of top diplomacy. The initial months of his presidency included a series of tough moments with friendly countries that were expecting more cooperation from the president following four years of his predecessor’s “America first” approach to foreign policy.

The U.S. Intended to Help Australia to Buy Nuclear-Equipped Submarines

First eight months of his presidency, President Biden has been out of synchronization with associate nations on the chaotic ending to the United States war in Afghanistan. In addition, the president faced differences over how to go about sharing COVID-19 vaccines with the emerging world and over outbreak travel restrictions. Moreover, the president finds himself in the middle of a fresh diplomatic dispute with France, the oldest ally of the United States, after announcing strategies – along with the United Kingdom – to equip Australia with nuclear submarines.

The move expected to provide Australia enhanced capabilities to patrol the Pacific Ocean because of the mounting concern about the increasingly violent tactics of the Chinese military, but it overturned a French defense agreement having worth around $66 billion to sell diesel-driven submarines to Australia. On Monday, Jean-Yves Drian, the French Foreign Minister, said there was a crisis of trust with the United States due to the episode.

Before the U.S. president arrival, European Union Council President Charles Michel strongly criticized the Biden government for leaving Europe out of the game in the Indo-Pacific region and overlooking the fundamental elements of the trans-Atlantic alliance – loyalty and transparency – in the pullout from Afghanistan and the announcement of the United States-United Kingdom-Australia alliance. Despite such differences, the U.S. president hoped to use his address to the General Assembly (GA) along with a series of person-to-person and high-level meetings with world leaders this week to establish the case for American leadership on the global stage.

Dysfunctional U.S-China Relationship

Ahead of his meeting with the U.S. President, Secretary-General told the Associated Press that he was worried about the entirely dysfunctional United States-China relationship, leading to a new cold war in the world. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said the government disagreed with the assessment of Guterres and added that both countries’ relationship was one not of dispute but competition.

President Biden planned to heavily emphasize the need for global leaders to work in collaboration with each other on the coronavirus pandemic, meet previous obligations to handle climate change, prevent emerging tech issues and stabilize trade rules, according to the statement of White House officials. Additionally, the president expected to release the latest plans to assist the international vaccination effort and to talk about the American plan to meet its part of financial commitments that the United States and other developed countries made in 2009 to help poorer countries adopt clean energy technology, according to a senior governmental official.

Up ahead of his departure, the Biden government announced plans to relax foreign travel restrictions to the United States at the start of November. Furthermore, the United States has mainly restricted travel by non-American travelers coming from Europe since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, this matter becomes a point of dispute in trans-Atlantic relations. However, the new rules will allow outsiders if they have a vaccination proof and a negative coronavirus test, the White House announced Monday.

The American president planned to reduce his time at the UN amid COVID-19 concerns. Biden was to meet with Scott Morrison, the Australian Prime Minister, while in New York before shifting remaining diplomacy of the week to virtual and Washington settings.

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On Sunday, the top United States infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said he believes millions of American nationals who already received full vaccination against the COVID-19 will ultimately need a booster dose to remain sufficiently vaccinated. U.S. President Joe Biden’s top medical adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci, told NBC’s show that eventually, the real proper régime would turn out to be the original two doses, including a boost, a 3rd shot of the Moderna or Pfizer BioNTech vaccines or a second dose from the earlier single Johnson & Johnson vaccination.

On Friday, a panel of United States health experts rejected giving a 3rd Pfizer shot to all U.S. nationals but suggested them for people sixty-five and older and those with serious health issues. Furthermore, the panel postponed its decision on boosters for those who administered Johnson & Johnson and Moderna shots. Fauci said a booster dose decision for Johnson & Johnson and Moderna recipients is factually a couple to some weeks away. Further, he adds that they are developing that right now to get the statistics to the Food and Drug Administration, so they can inspect it and make a determination about the booster shops for those people.

70 million People 12 and Elder Americans Remain Unvaccinated

Ultimately, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that one hundred and eighty-one million Americans receive full vaccination, but another projected seventy million people twelve and older remain unvaccinated, either because they opposed to inoculations or skeptical of them, think they won’t catch the coronavirus, cautious of government officials urging them to receive the vaccination or some other reason.

According to the agency, since mid-August, over two million people have already received a booster dose, mainly because the administration said people with severe health issues should do so, but also speciously because thousands of Americans who are not ill felt the requirement to get a booster. However, he said that he believes that there is a better chance that as Americans get into the coming months into 2022, the statistics point to the benefit of having a much broader blanket of people getting a booster dose.

Joe Biden Ordered Businesses with Hundred or More Employees

Fauci told the State of the Union of CNN that until that happens to show that he strongly recommends that those who received the vaccination, unless they fall into a previously approved category for a booster dose, wait their turn instead of showing up at a clinic and asking for a dose. Recently, Biden ordered businesses with hundred or more workers to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for their employees or require weekly testing, and mandatory doses for 2.5 million employees for the national government, without the choice of weekly tests for coronavirus.

Fauci told NBC News that the possibility of a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for air travelers is still on the table right now. However, the vaccination mandate of the president for a projected eighty million employees remains controversial, with several state governors of the Republican party saying they view it as an overreach by the president.

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Emal Ahmadi said his brother Zamarai, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike, was innocent and had no links with the ISIS-K that U.S. officials called him the facilitator in those days after his death. 29th August, a U.S. airstrike in Kabul killed Zamarai Ahmadi and nine other Afghan civilians, including seven kids. For almost three weeks, American officials kept claiming the drone strike was righteous and that at least one ISIS-K facilitator killed.

‘We want justice,’ say the family of 10 civilians killed in a US airstrike that officials now say was ‘a mistake’

— Mazi Urch_mann (@Urch_mann) September 19, 2021

The Pentagon admitted on Friday that it was a tragic mistake. Zamarai Ahmadi, a forty-three-year-old technical engineer at Nutrition and Education International, a United States nonprofit organization, had no tied with ISIS-K. On CNN, Emal Ahmadi said that while the American acknowledgment by the United States that his elder brother was a victim and not a terrorist took the family some relief, they are still facing difficulties to understand what happened.

He asked the United States knew that inside the car, inside the area, were children, why did they target innocent Afghan civilians in this area? Furthermore, his daughter Malika killed in the attack along with her uncle, her seven cousins, and another child. The child was only two years old. Emal Ahmadi said that all of them were innocent, like his daughter. Ahmadi converse with the CNN inside the damaged family two-story house in a Kabul neighborhood that Zamarai Ahmadi shared with his three brothers with their wives and children.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Offered his Condolences

Lloyd J. Austin III, the United States Secretary of Defense, offered his sympathies in a statement and called Ahmadi an innocent victim whose activities were completely harmless. Further, he added that they apologize and will try to learn from this horrible mistake. The commander of United States Central Command, General Frank McKenzie, said the Pentagon was considering compensations payments to the infected family. While it was tough to reach out to people in Afghanistan, they will be trying to do so.

When asked what they want from the United States, Emal Ahmadi and his brother Romal with his three children killed in the drone strike, said justice. Moreover, the family had to borrow money to pay for the funerals, and there were several at one time they could not afford to pay from their own pocket. Asked whether he could forgive America for what they did, Emal Ahmadi said, maybe.

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The United States started expulsion of Haitian migrants camped in a Texas border town back to their native land Sunday. Moreover, they tried blocking other people from crossing the border from Mexico in a huge show of force that signaled the staring of what could be one of the instants, large-scale expulsions of refugees or migrants in America during last some decades.

US launches mass expulsion of Haitian migrants from Texas: The U.S. flew Haitians camped in a Texas border town back to their homeland Sunday and tried blocking others from crossing the border from Mexico in a massive show of … Click to Continue » https://t.co/NK3uwN64Ce pic.twitter.com/fjFO3X0tLL

— Forever Reem (@ForeverReem_1) September 20, 2021

Over three hundred and twenty migrants reached Port-au-Prince on three flights, and Haiti said flights expected Tuesday. Ultimately, United States authorities moved to expel several over twelve thousand migrants camped across a bridge in Del Rio, Texas, after crossing from Ciudad Acuña, Mexico. According to the United States official, the U.S. administration plans to start seven expulsion flights on a daily basis from Wednesday, three to Cap-Haitien and four to Port-au-Price.

Departing flights will continue to carry out operations from San Antonio, but management may add El Paso. The only apparent for such an exclusion without a chance to seek out asylum was in 1992 when the Coast Guard stopped Haitian refugees at sea, said senior American advocate at Refugees International, Yael Schacher. Likewise, a large number of Mexican nationals sent back to their homeland during peak years of immigration but over land and not instantly.

Federal and State Law Enforcement Conformed Migrants

Central American nationals also crossed the country border in similar numbers without being subject to mass expulsion, though Mexico agreed to accept these immigrants from the United States under coronavirus pandemic-related authority in effect since March 2020. Mexico doesn’t accept excluded Haitians or individuals of other nationalities outside of Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, and Honduras.

When the border closed on Sunday, the immigrants initially found alternative ways to cross nearby until federal and state law enforcement confronted them. A reporter from the Associated Press saw Haitian migrants still crossing the river into the United States around 1.5 miles east of the earlier spot, but Border Patrol agents and Texas law enforcement officials finally stopped them.

As they crossed, some Haitian nationals carried boxes on their heads filled with food. Some immigrants removed their pants before getting into the river and carried them. Others unconcerned about getting wet. Security agents screamed at the immigrants who were crossing the river to get out of the water. Many people who successfully crossed the river and sitting along the bank on the United States side were instructed to the Del Rio camp. Agents yelled, go now.

For the last many years, Haitians have been migrating to the United States in a big number from South America, many having left their Caribbean country after a deadly earthquake of 2010. After jobs withered from the Summer Olympics of 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, several made the risky trek by foot, car, and bus to the American border, including through the infamous Darien Gap, a Panamanian jungle.

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On Friday, leaders at a meeting of Russia, China, and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization emphasized the need for working with the Taliban-led Afghanistan government to prevent an approaching humanitarian crisis and an economic downfall in the war-scarred country. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Tajikistan came one month after the Islamist Taliban recaptured the power in Kabul as the U.S.-led Western forces withdrew, ending approximately two decades of contribution in the Afghan war.

Xi Jinping, the Chinese President, speaking through a video link to the security bloc, renewed his call for the insurgents to eliminate terrorism while vowing to provide additional support to the neighboring nation and requesting others to do so. In addition, the Chinese press quoted the president as urging the members to promote the peaceful transition of power in Afghanistan, guide it to develop a comprehensive political structure, adopt moderate and sensible foreign and domestic policies, definitely combat all types of terrorism live in peace with its neighbors.

China and other neighboring countries of Afghanistan have emphasized the U.S. and its allies supply Afghanistan with humanitarian and economic aid rather than abandoning it. Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, also addressed the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit through a video link and underlined the need for working with the Taliban government and for world powers to consider unfreezing the assets of Afghanistan that kept in foreign banks.

The U.S. and Western Nations Pledged Humanitarian Aid

The United States and other Western nations pledged swift humanitarian aid of over $1.2 billion. However, they are waiting to observe whether the Taliban leaders will defend the human rights of minorities and women and stem terrorism before diplomatically engaging with them. Moreover, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Afghanistan would not have access to lender resources, ending development projects in the country.

Last week, the Taliban announced an all-men thirty-three-member interim cabinet, and it drew strong criticism domestically and internationally for not being an inclusive political system as the Islamist movement promised. Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan Niazi told the summit that for their part, the Taliban leaders must fulfill their promises made above all ethnic groups represented. He emphasized by adding that it is vital for the stability of Afghanistan.

Prime Minister @ImranKhanPTI‘s remarks at Meeting of Heads of Delegations of Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Collective Security Treaty Organization on “Outreach on Afghanistan”

(With Urdu Subtitles)#PMIKvisitsTajikistan#PMIKatSCOSummit pic.twitter.com/u5jIUfYY0M

— Prime Minister’s Office, Pakistan (@PakPMO) September 17, 2021

Niazi said it was a matter of relief for neighboring nations, specifically that the power transition in the Afghan capital happened without significant violence, civil war, and mass migration of refugees. The Russian president also echoed Pakistan’s leader’s words during his address to the summit. However, he adds that the Taliban controls almost the whole territory of Afghanistan, and the new authorities should encourage them to deliver on their own pledges to make peace.

Moreover, the SCO comprises Pakistan, Uzbekistan, China, India, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Kazakhstan. Afghanistan is an observer state, but it wasn’t invited to the meeting on Friday because member countries haven’t recognized the Taliban government yet.

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Scientific advisers to the United States Food and Drug Administration voted not to suggest coronavirus Pfizer vaccine third dose for most Americans, a possible significant blow to the Biden government after it announced a strategy to boost adults before advisory committees had a chance to evaluate scientific evidence in public.

Dr. Arnold Monto, the committee chair and the University of Michigan epidemiologist continued discussions after the vote. Sixteen of the eighteen advisers opposed the extensive proposal for COVID-19 vaccine boosters for those older than sixteen, even as some members believed there is a role for a third shot.

A 3rd friggin shot?!? How much “boosting” until the experiment works? At least they said no. Probably because of the .
“FDA advisers vote against Pfizer booster shots for the general population” https://t.co/GsUQQFstzx

— THATISABSURDITY.COM (@AuthorofAbsurd) September 17, 2021

After the preliminary no vote, the committee suggested a much small number of American nationals receive booster doses of the Pfizer vaccine at least half a year after their first shots, this time under emergency use approval rather than full approval. Moreover, the eighteen-member panel consistently advised a third dose to Americans older than sixty-five and at high risk of severe illness due to the virus.

Because of the emergency use approval, research will possibly continue on third doses as the Pfizer vaccine works to achieve full approval. Afterward, the adviser panel further clarified the emergency use approval should include health workers and those Americans at high risk of work-related coronavirus exposure. The FDA’s decision about vaccines and its related biological products advisory committee is not binding, but the Food and Drug Authority usually follows its advice.

 Background of Recommending Booster Doses in America

The decision from the FDA came after significant public scientific opposition came about a booster shot. Much of the statistics favored Israel, while figures were less on whether a third dose could help protect individuals against death and hospitalization. A member and associate professor of microbiology and immunology at the Medical School University of Michigan, A Oveta Fuller, said that there are several questions for him to feel ok to say yes to the approval; he summed up the views of many voting members.

Another committee member, a Harvard assistant professor of microbiology and molecular genetics, Dr. Eric Rubin, said he strongly suspects the COVID-19 vaccine will be low-risk. Further, he adds that he will not be comfortable giving it to a sixteen-year-old for all the reasons everybody raised. Pfizer submitted safety statistics on only about three hundred adults aged eighteen to fifty-five who received a third dose, a sample size many members said was too small.

In addition, the decision of the FDA throws the Biden government’s plan doubtful to provide vaccine booster shots. Governmental officials haven’t recommended third shots for Americans who received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, though they still may. All corona vines currently available in the United States are highly efficient against severe illness, hospitalization, and death from the virus. Questions of FDA committee members about declining vaccine immunity have a tendency to focus on how effective vaccines remain against preventing coronavirus infection, spread, and prevention on mild to moderate illness.

On the other hand, scientists said they had trouble supporting the Pfizer request for booster shots for most American nationals for reasons including heart inflammation, the risk of myocarditis, and questions about whether booster doses are confined to older Americans.

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The Pentagon reverses its defense of a deadly drone strike that killed several civilians in Afghanistan last month, announced Friday that a review unveiled that attack killed only civilians, not an Islamic State extremist as initially believed. The head of the United States Central Command, Marine General Frank McKenzie, told a Pentagon press conference that the drone strike was a tragic mistake.

Additionally, they generally apologized for the error and said the U.S. is considering making compensation expenses to the family of the victims. Further, he said that the decision to attack a white Toyota Corolla sedan, after having followed it for around eight hours, was made in an intense belief – based on a standard for reasonable inevitability – that it posed a forthcoming risk American forces at Kabul international airport. He said the U.S. officials believed that the car was carrying explosives in its trunk.

Pentagon admit drone strike that killed multiple civilians in Afghanistan last month killed only civilians not Islamic State extremist as first reported. “The strike was tragic mistake,” Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie, head of US Central Command, told Pentagon news conference.#biden pic.twitter.com/tnEsaf0fY2

— chris west (@cwest0583) September 17, 2021

After some days of the 29th August attack, Pentagon officials emphasized that they conducted the strike correctly, despite ten civilians, including seven children, being killed in the attack. However, later on, news organizations raised doubts about that version of the strikes, reporting that the driver of the targeted car was a long-time worker of a U.S. humanitarian organization and mentioning negligence of evidence to support the claim of the Pentagon that the car contained explosives.

U.S. Final Evacuation and Attack

Moreover, the drone strike was the last of the American war that ended as it started in 2001 – with the Taliban seized Kabul. The speed with which the insurgents invaded Afghanistan took the United States government by surprise and forced it to send many thousand troops to the Afghan capital airport for a swift evacuation of U.S. nationals, Afghans, and others. The evacuation from Kabul, which started on 14th August, unfolded under a continuous threat of attack by an Afghanistan affiliate of the Islamic State group.

McKenzie, who supervised American military operations in Afghanistan, including a concluding evacuation of American forces and over one hundred and twenty thousand civilians from Kabul airport, shared his sympathies to the friends and families of those killed. However, he also said that now he convinced that around ten civilians, including seven children, tragically died in that airstrike. Furthermore, he adds that they now evaluate that it is unlikely that the car and those who killed have associations with ISIS-K or were a real threat to United States forces.

Before the airstrike, American intelligence specified a possibility that the vehicle would use in an attack against American forces. On 29th August morning, such a white Toyota Corolla detected at comping in Kabul that American intelligence in the previous forty-eight hours that the Islamic State group used it to plan and help attacks. The United States drone traced the vehicle from that compound to many other locations in the city before decided to attack it at an area just some miles away from the Kabul airport.

U.S. Defense Secretary Apologized for Attack on Vehicle

Lloyd Austin, the United States Defense Secretary, stated apologized for the attack and called it a horrible mistake. Austin said that they came to know that there were no links between the Islamic State group and the driver of the vehicle and that the activities of the driver that day were completely safe and not at all related to the looming threat they faced.

Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, General Mark Milley, told reporters two days after the attack they carried righteous airstrike and that at least one of the persons killed was a facilitator for the Afghan affiliate Islamic State group, which killed around one hundred and sixty-nine Afghan civilians and thirteen American service members in a suicide attack on 26th August at the Kabul airport.

Milley expressed regret after McKenzie’s comments on Friday. Milley told journalists that it is a horrible tragedy of war and also heart-wrenching. Additionally, he said that they remained committed to staying transparent about the incident. The humanitarian aid group, Amnesty International, called admission a mistake from the American military a good first step.

A senior crisis adviser with Amnesty International, Brian Castner, said that the Pentagon must now commit to impartial, transparent, and full probe into this incident. Anybody suspected of criminal charges should prosecuted in a fair trial. Families of the victims and survivors should keep informed of the development of the probe, and the U.S. should give full compensation.

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The new government of Israeli collapsed long-serving Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister this summer, is full of conflicts. There are pro-settlement right-wingers, no pro-peace left-wingers, practical centrists, and even for the first time an Arab Islamist party, all sitting together in one governing alliance.

There is almost no accord on the most disruptive matter – the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which is just how Micah Goodman likes it. A political philosopher, Goodman flew to public fame in Israel and beyond for his contrarian thesis on how to sort out prolong the conflict.

Goodman’s paradigm of “shrinking the conflict”, despite its ambiguity, has clearly a leftist bent.

The things he proposes like stopping settlement construction outside the blocs and, especially, recognizing the Palestinian State, put a brake on all Greater Israel fantasies. https://t.co/NQSzx6ZbPa

— Michael (@novussubsole) September 17, 2021

Several people called him the court philosopher of Naftali Bennett, the Prime Minister, an ultra-nationalist ex-settlement leader, who publicly embraced Goodman’s example of shrinking the conflict. However, other leftist and mainstream ministers have also come calling. Even the Biden government apparently assumed what Goodman calls his pragmatic and less conceptual approach.

Moreover, the White House remains devoted to a two-nation solution; Antony Blinken, the Secretary of State, said that the instant priority was to rebuild trust between Palestinians and Israelis in May. Goodman himself confused with the recent interest from diplomats, politicians, and generals. Earlier in his career, Goodman wrote books evaluating ancient Jewish texts, which he says was exactly the accurate training for tackling a conflict as combative as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Israel Started Issuing 15000 New Work Permits for Palestinians

In recent weeks, Israel started to issuing fifteen thousand new work permits inside Israel for Palestinians, floating the Palestinian Authority a five hundred million dollars loan, re-establishing Joint Economic Committees (JEC) to discuss upcoming projects, allowing reunification such as legal status for Palestinian spouses in the West Bank, and preliminary approving two thousand new housing units for Palestinian people in the part of the West Bank under full Israeli control.

Last week, one senior official told CNN that they intended to make every effort to shrink the conflict and start shaping the solution, starting with economics and infrastructure. Still, the more extensive measures outlined above are tremendously unlikely given the make-up of the present Israeli alliance. However, it doesn’t discourage Goodman in his mind; it only boosts his thesis.

Goodman says that there is no harmony in the government about the end game, but they can reach an agreement about the game. Further, he adds that it is the entire approach of this government on all issues. The significant thing is to agree on the action instead of on the narrative spreading across it. Critics of Goodman from both the left and the right are not as optimistic.

For the right, the moves he is raising likely run an advanced security risk than he appreciates, and in any case, misses the higher point. The left doesn’t see too much new in the thesis of Goodman and, at worst, is doubtful that reducing the conflict is the similar approach adopted previously by the Israeli right – economic peace or managing the conflict – only rebranded.

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On Thursday, a group of over forty Muslim-American civil rights organizations in the U.S. announced a campaign to boycott Hilton all over the world because the Hilton announced to construct a hotel on the site of a Uighur Mosque that the Chinese Xinjiang region authorities bull-dozed.

Speaking at a press conference in Virginia held in front of the Hilton headquarters, Council on American-Islamic Relations said that they had been negotiating indirectly with the administration of the hotel group, appealing them to call off the construction plan of the hotel, but that negotiations end with no results.

Executive director of CAIR, Nihad Awad, announced their worldwide boycott campaign against Hilton. Further, he added that everyone has the right and choice to choose where to go on their travel or to carry out business conferences or to hold events, banquets, or weddings. Awad also said that the recent project is an open violation of human rights that contributes to the destruction of Uighur faith and culture.

#LIVE NOW: CAIR, Coalition Partners Announce Global Boycott of @HiltonHotels Over Plan to Build Hotel on Site of Demolished #Uyghur Masjid in #Chinahttps://t.co/Ig4Ykm4UgB #BoycottHilton #HiltonHurtsUyghurs #GenocideHotel #SaveUyghur

— CAIR National (@CAIRNational) September 16, 2021

China paid a long campaign against the mostly inhabited Muslim Uighur population with mass imprisonments, separating children from families, forcible sterilizations, and destroying cultural and religious locations. However, China denied the claims. The site that driven the boycott was a masjid in the Hotan region, the Chinese local administration destroyed it in 2018, and now Hilton plans to turn the place into a Hampton Inn hotel.

Local authorities destroyed how many mosques in Xinjiang between 2017 and 2020?

Awad said that they already knew the proposed project of the Hilton group in early June. In July, a bipartisan United States congressional commission requested Hilton Worldwide not permit its name to be associated with the hotel project. According to the Australian Strategic Policy institute research, local Chinese authorities partially or completely destroyed around sixteen thousand mosques in nine hundred Xinjiang locations between 2017 and 2020.

China removed minarets from mosques and demolished some of them. The reports on the ground verified the destruction, and also satellite images confirmed the destruction from previous years until now. However, officials in Beijing told CNN earlier this year that they didn’t forcibly destroy or restricted any religious sites, and they also invited the media to visit the sites.

Reuters said that in twelve days of reporting during Ramadan in April and May, the journalists observed several partially or completely demolished mosques. In addition, the United Nations (UN) and human rights groups evaluate that the authorities held around one million Uighurs Muslims and other ethnic minorities in camps. Initially, China denied the existence of camps, but afterward, it stated that they are vocational centers to combat extremism in the area.

The U.S. Announced to Import Ban on all Cotton and Tomato Products from Xinjiang

Additionally, China denied allegations that it mistreats minority Muslims of Uighur in Xinjiang or that they carried out forced labor there. In January, the United States announced an import ban on all tomato and cotton products from Xinjiang over accusations that they made with the forced labor of Uighurs.

Many western brands like Nike, H&M, and Burberry faced consumer boycotts in China after growing concerns about alleged forced labor in Xinjiang. China holds approximately twenty percent of the global cotton market, and eighty percent of its cotton comes from Xinjiang. Likewise, earlier in September, a human rights group filed a lawsuit against German prosecutors alleging that many fashion retailers profited from forced labor in the Xinjiang region of China.

On Monday, Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations’ rights chief, said that current efforts to gain access to the Xinjiang region of China to investigate reports of serious violations against Uighurs Muslims have failed. Further, she adds that she was finalizing a report on the situation.

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Friction between ideologues and pragmatists in the leadership of Taliban intensified since the group established a hardline Cabinet last week that is more consistent with their previous harsh rule in the late 1990s than their recent promises of comprehensiveness, according to two Afghan sources familiar with the matter. Moreover, the power struggle took place surreptitiously, but rumors instantly started circulating about a recent violent conflict between the two camps at the Afghan presidential palace, including claims that Abdul Ghani Baradar, the leader of the pragmatic group, killed.

Friction among Taliban pragmatists, hard-liners intensifies: The friction between pragmatists and ideologues in the Taliban leadership has intensified since the group formed a hard-line Cabinet last week that is more in line with their harsh rule in the 1990s than their recent… pic.twitter.com/y3FbCevv2u

— Trumpeth Magazine (@Trumpethnews) September 16, 2021

The gossips reach such intensity that a handwriting and an audio statement, both supposedly by Baradar himself, denied that he had been murdered. Later on, Wednesday, Baradar came on the Afghan national television in an interview. In that interview, he clarified that he was traveling from the capital, so he had no access to media to deny his death news.

Taliban Seizure of the Afghan Capital and Taliban Interim Government

However, Baradar worked as the chief negotiator during the negotiations between the United States and the Taliban, leading to the American forces pulling out from Afghanistan. The withdrawal completed in late August, around fifteen days after the Taliban takeover the Kabul. Soon after the Kabul seizure, Baradar had the first senior Taliban official to propose the possibility of an inclusive government, but such optimism dissatisfied with the establishment of an all-men, all Taliban interim government last week.

In another sign that the hard-liners prevailed, the Taliban raised the white flag over the presidential palace by replacing the national flag of Afghanistan. Furthermore, a Taliban official said the leadership still has not made an ultimate decision on the flag for the country, with several leaning toward finally flying both banners side by side. The official spoke with the media on the condition of anonymity.

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A group of Democratic representatives once again demanded Facebook to abandon plans to release an Instagram for kids, after a report by the Wall Street Journal that said Facebook conducted researches on the effects of the app on teenagers, which reveal that the social media app had a harmful impact on the mental health of teenage girls.

On Wednesday, Senator Edward Markey, Representative Lori Trahan, and Representative Kathy Castor sent a request letter to Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, to proceed with their demands. Moreover, the letter highlighted key facts from the Tuesday report of the Wall Street Journal about internal findings of Facebook, including that Instagram (social media app) negatively affected body image for one in three girls, six percent of American teens drew their desire to end their lives to the app.

Recent reports prove that Facebook knew Instagram is a significant threat to the mental health of young people. @USRepKCastor, @RepLoriTrahan, and I are demanding that Mr. Zuckerberg immediately abandon Facebook’s plans to launch a new version of Instagram for kids. pic.twitter.com/Jc82mrtqNM

— Ed Markey (@SenMarkey) September 15, 2021

The letter further said that one in five American teens reports that Instagram makes them feel inferior about themselves, and it makes teens feel pressure to match the body shapes and money of influencers. Moreover, the representatives said these findings paint a shocking and clear picture that Instagram poses significant threats to the wellbeing of young people. The lawmakers also have some concerns that Facebook continues to fail in its responsibility to protect young users.

Lawmakers Demand More Information on Facebook’s Research on Children and Teen Mental Health

The letter further asks the Facebook CEO to provide more information on the research of his firm on the mental health of teens and children and its plans for new products or platforms directed to teens by 6th October. In response to the article of Wall Street Journal, Instagram said it found that the social media effects mixed. The app can give voice to relegated communities, keep users connected, and be a place where people usually have negative experiences.

Instagram also said that it made features to helps users protect themselves from bullying by allowing them to hide viewer counts. Additionally, the company is focusing on combating negative body image and negative social comparison. In April, Zuckerberg announced his plans to develop an Instagram version for kids, which instantly drew concerns from the public and representatives that children would not have enough protection under the new app.

After the announcement, attorneys general from forty-four states and counties urged the social media company to stop its plans. Likewise, in May, a group of representatives including Castor and Markey with Senator Richard Blumenthal called for Facebook to license the plans for an Instagram for kids, alleging the firm didn’t address the concerns of lawmakers with the app.

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On Wednesday, the President of the United States Joe Biden revealed his plan to help Australia acquire nuclear-powered submarines, a key move toward countering rival China as the president works to build international support for his approach to China. The announcement from Biden came as part of a new three-sided partnership among the U.S., the United Kingdom, and Australia that the leaders of three nations mutually revealed Wednesday afternoon.

President Biden – appearing with Australian and UK prime ministers virtually – announces new trilateral agreement to help Australia acquire nuclear powered submarines in an apparent challenge to China’s activities pic.twitter.com/I3g1tMjJPM

— Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) September 15, 2021

Biden said that the U.S., the U.K., and Australia have long been capable and faithful allies. Further, he added that they took another historic step to formalize and expand cooperation among all three countries because they all recognize the imperative of guaranteeing stability and peace in the Ind-Pacific region over the long term. The alliance triggered what was expected as an outbreak of diplomatic engagements for the U.S. president this autumn, from the United Nations (UN) next week’s meetings to a White House summit of Asian leaders to October’s group of twenty talks in Italy.

AUKUS

Behind his efforts is a struggle to gather the United States and West partners in Asia in the fight between dictatorship versus democracy, one of the significant aims of his presidency. In addition, the U.S. president made countering China a central feature of his foreign policy as tensions intensified over Taiwan and the South China Sea and said he wants U.S. allies on board.

The new alliance between the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia – three English-speaking naval democracies – is not specifically about China, officials insisted before the announcement. Instead, they expressed the three nations would hold a schedule of meetings over the upcoming months to harmonize and settle on cyber issues, defense, and advanced technologies to meet the latest security challenges better. Additionally, they named the new partnership as AUKUS and pronounced it as aw-kiss.

The initiative to build nuclear submarine capability in Australia will allow the nation to uniformly operate at a much advanced level. Moreover, nuclear submarines have the ability to move at higher speeds, stealthily and strength, than conventional ones, which must surface more often. As a result, a senior administration official said before the announcement, allowing Australia to combat at a much better level and expand U.S. capabilities. Further, he added that it is about maintaining peace and stability in the region.

Extremely Sensitive Technology

Australian top officials were also in Washington for the Wednesday meeting with their counterparts, including U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The American president announced that Austin would lead efforts for the United States government in deep collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy and the State Department.

U.S. officials said the further details of the new alliance were held closely during their development over the past weeks and months, but government stakeholders and other allies would brief on the particulars in the coming days. Furthermore, the United Kingdom United States plans to dispatch strategic and technical teams to classify the best way for Australia to obtain nuclear submarines over the next eighteen months. However, the new plan will mean withdrawing a ninety billion dollars deal Australia already made with France for conservative submarines.

The decision sparked tensions between Australia and New Zealand, with Jacinda Ardern, the NZ Prime Minister, issuing a statement on Thursday saying Canberra’s nuclear-powered submarines would ban the country’s waters. In a statement to CNN, Ardern’s office said that the position of New Zealand in relation to the ban of nuclear-powered vessels in the country’s waters remains unchanged. The statement added that they welcomed increased engagement by the United States and the United Kingdom in the Asia Pacific region.

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The first flight of SpaceX streaked into Earth orbit Wednesday night with a health care worker, two contest winners, and their rich sponsor, the most ambitious dive still in space tourism. Jared Issacman, the billionaire leader of the flight, urged moments before launch by saying, punch it, SpaceX. Furthermore, the two men and two women of the Dragon capsule are preparing to spend three days going round and round the Earth from a remarkably high orbit – hundred miles higher than the International Space Station (ISS).

SpaceX launches 4 amateurs on private Earth-circling trip – Associated Press: SpaceX launches 4 amateurs on private Earth-circling trip Associated PressView Full Coverage on Google News pic.twitter.com/iHsUuTa1no

— King Tri-Zi (@KingTriZi) September 16, 2021

It’s the first entry of Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, in the competition for space tourism dollars. Issacman, 38, is the 3rd billionaire to launch this summer, after the space-skimming flights by Blue Origin’s Jeff Bezos and Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson in July 2021. Only Isaacman made his affluence from a payment-processing firm he began in his teens. Hayley Arceneaux, 29, a childhood bone cancer survivor, also joined Isaacman on the trip dubbed Inspiration4. She now works as a physician assistant at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, a hospital where she went her treatment.

Isaacman vowed $100 million from his own pocket to the hospital and now planning another hundred million dollars in donations. Arceneaux became the youngest U.S. citizen in space and the first individual with a titanium rod in her left leg. Sweepstake winners Sian Proctor, 51, a community college instructor in Tempe, Arizona, and Chris Sembroski, 42, a data engineer in Everett, Washington, are also along the ride.

NASA Administrator about the Space Trip

Bill Nelson, the Administrator of NASA, tweeted to congratulate Inspiration4 and said that low-Earth orbit is now more accessible for more individuals to experience the space wonders. NASA looks forward to the future, where it is one of several customers in the commercial space market. Onward and upward! In another tweet, he said that the Inspiration4 launch reminds of what can be accomplished when NASA partners with private industry. Further, he adds, a commercial capability to fly private missions is the peak of NASA’s vision with a commercial crew.

Congratulations #Inspiration4! Low-Earth orbit is now more accessible for more people to experience the wonders of space. We look forward to the future – one where @NASA is one of many customers in the commercial space market. Onward and upward!

— Bill Nelson (@SenBillNelson) September 16, 2021

The recycled Falcon rocket flew from the same Kennedy Space Center pad previously used by the three previous flights of an astronaut for NASA. However, this time, the Dragon capsule intended for an altitude of three hundred and seventy-five miles, just outside the Hubble Space Telescope. Across the United States, SpaceX employees cheered passionately at every flight milestone.

Isaacman noted that some people reached space less than six hundred during sixty years upon reaching orbit. However, he added that several more are about to follow the same path because the doors are opening, which is pretty incredible—the capsule used for the second astronaut flight of SpaceX for NASA to the ISS. The single noteworthy change is the large domed window at the top in the position of the normal space station docking mechanisms.

When will SpaceX carry out the next private trip?

Though the spaceship is automatic, the four riders of Dragon spend around six months in training for the flight to tackle any emergency. Their training included fighter and centrifuge jet flights, reentry and launch practice in capsule simulator of SpaceX, and a hard trek up Mount Rainier of Washington in the snow. Then, four hours before the launch, the riders met with Musk before emerging from the huge rocket hangar of SpaceX, blowing kisses and waving to their beloved ones and firm employees before they began to get into their sleek white flight suits.

The next private trip of SpaceX will be on early next year and see an ex-NASA astronaut accompanying three rich businessmen to the space station for a seven-day visit. Furthermore, Russia is launching a film director, an actress, and a Japanese tycoon to the ISS in the upcoming few months. SpaceX tweeted about the visit details and said that the Inspiration4 crew would carry out scientific research intended to advance and facilitate human health on Earth and future long-duration spaceflights.

During their multi-day journey, the @Inspiration4x crew will conduct scientific research designed to advance human health on Earth and during future long-duration spaceflights https://t.co/Lb5nvDYGwZ

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) September 15, 2021

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On Tuesday, the Taliban leaders welcomed the international community for vowing aid of hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency assistance to Afghans. On the other side, they condemned the criticism from the United States and others about their interim government. Amir Khan Muttaqi, the acting foreign minister of the Taliban government, vowed the Taliban would ensure aid reaches those who need it.

Several years of conflict, war, severe drought, and the COVID-19 pandemic pushed the already developing nation to the edge. Since the swept back to the government, conditions got worse last month as the U.S. and Western-allied forces pulled out and foreign aid dried up. Last week, the insurgents announced an acting government in the Afghan capital.

Taliban welcome billion dollar aid by the UN and international community. Countries who endorsed aid to the people of Afghanistan are non-Muslim. Taliban term these countries enemies of Islam and Islamic principles. pic.twitter.com/GC8OSbGhkR

— Afghanistan Defenders (@AfghanistanDef9) September 14, 2021

On Monday, an international conference in Geneva saw donors of the United Nations vowed over $1 billion in aid to help combat the worsening humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan. Furthermore, the U.N. warned the country’s economy is on the edge of collapse, and hundreds and millions of people could soon run out of food.

Muttaqi insisted that the Afghans desperately need help, but this humanitarian relief shouldn’t link to any political reasons. The acting foreign minister also requested the world to unfreeze the assets of Afghanistan to enable the capital to use its own money to stop a falling humanitarian crisis. Since the seizure of the Taliban, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank froze the access of Afghanistan to funding, while the U.S. froze billions of dollars held in its reserve for Kabul.

Will the U.S. establish direct diplomatic engagement with the Taliban-led government?

Antony Blinken, the United States Secretary of State, reiterated on Monday that the direct diplomatic engagement of Washington with any Taliban-led régime would link to whether it sustains the commitments of insurgents to fight terrorism and support human rights, including those of minorities and women. Blinken said that the provisional government of the Taliban falls very short of the mark set by the global community for inclusivity, an administration that is widely representative of the Afghan nationals, not just the insurgents and its community.

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Boston, Massachusetts was reducing its field of mayoral candidates for the first time to two individuals of color, likely both women – a simple change from the continuous string of white men elected mayor in the first two hundred years of the city. Electorates cast votes in preliminary mayoral voting that will select two candidates from a field of five key contenders, all of whom are people of color, while four of them women.

Two victors of the Tuesday contest will face off against each other on 2nd November, steering in a new era of the city that fought with ethnic and racial conflict. Interim Mayor Kim Janey, City Councilors Andrea Campbell, Michelle Wu and Annissa Essaibi George, and the city’s ex-economic development chief John Barros were contending to be one of the top candidates.

Since more than two candidates have qualified for the 2021 Boston mayoral election ballot, a non-partisan preliminary election is set for today in order to determine which two candidates will make the general election.

The 2021 Boston mayoral election will be held on November 2. pic.twitter.com/NFy1x8y72Z

— Only In Boston (@OnlyInBOS) September 14, 2021

Essaibi George and Wu told their supporters on Tuesday night that they were the major two vote-getters, despite below one percent of votes officially matched, and both Campbell and Janey faced defeat. Still, the press not called the winners because the concerns only counted a small number of votes. However, Janey already made history by becoming the first woman and first Black Bostonian to took charge of the top Boston’s office in an interim capacity after ex-Mayor Marty Walsh resigned earlier this year to become the labor secretary of President Joe Biden.

Charles Stuart Case Inflamed Simmering Racial Tensions in Boston

Janey congratulated Michelle Wu and Annissa Essaibi-George in a statement on their wins. She added that it was a historic and feisty race, and she wished both of them good luck for the final election. All of the contenders of the race belong to the Democratic party, and mayoral races in the city don’t include party primaries.

Furthermore, the contenders hail from a different range of backgrounds. For example, Campbell and Janey are Black, while Wu’s parents migrated from Taiwan to settle in the United States. In the same way, Essaibi George calls herself a 1st generation Arab-Polish American and Barros is of Cape Verdean descent.

Wu maintained a lead over the other major four contenders during last some polls, setting up a hike among other candidates for the second place if her lead holds. Wu grew up in Chicago, and then to attend Harvard University and Harvard Law School, she moved to Boston. And in the current scenario, she is the only contender who was not born in Boston.

Since the 1970s, the city changed radically, when Boston found itself in the state’s attention over the chaos on by school desegregation, and the case of Charles Stuart once again inflamed mounting racial tensions in the late 1980s. In 1989, Stuart believed to kill his pregnant wife while he tried to blame the murder on an unknown Black man, which stimulated police to search Black neighborhood areas in vain for a suspect person. Later Stuart committed suicide by jumping from a bridge.

Political Change in Boston

According to the latest statistics of the United States Census, there is around 44.6 percent of the white people living in the city, 19.1 percent are Black residents, 18.7 percent are Latino inhabitants, and around 11.2 percent are residents of Asian nations. Moreover, the city changed itself politically too much. In 2018, Ayanna Pressley, the ex-Boston City Councilor, defeated Michael Capuano, the longtime Democratic United States Representative, to become the first Black female elected to Congress from Massachusetts.

The same year, an ex-federal prosecutor, Michael Capuano, won the election to become the first female district attorney of Boston and the first Black female district attorney of the city, and the first Black female to hold such a seat anywhere in Massachusetts. Then, in July, U.S. President Joe Biden nominated her to become the top federal prosecutor of the state.

Boston is also facing some sort of challenges such as redevelopment, due to which many residents were forced out of their residencies. In addition, the city’s new mayor will also face challenges like racial injustice, transportation woes, ongoing response to the coronavirus pandemic, and policing to schools. One of the most prominent problems is the housing cost, which is overtaking the financial means of several residents and future homeowners. The race is also the first preliminary election in the history of Boston to allow mail-in voting. Last week, it also allowed early voting for the voters.

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