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Hong Kong is banning all incoming flights from the main airlines in Turkey and the Philippines after six arriving passengers tested positive for Covid-19. Health authorities are tightening rules for travellers in a bid to keep the number of virus cases in the city at zero.
Richard Kimber reports from Hong Kong.
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Japan's Health Ministry has said that foreign materials found inside Moderna vaccines in Okinawa Prefecture may be fragments of rubber stoppers from the vials, and there was no issue with the quality of the batch.
The reassurance came after 1.63 million doses of Moderna vaccines distributed across Japan were suspended over fears of contamination.
Phoebe Amoroso reports from Tokyo.
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CLIP: http://fsnradionews.com/feeds/0830-okinawa-moderna-vaccines.mp3Denmark has announced that it will be closing its embassy in Tanzania in what the country's foreign ministry says is part of a reorganisation.
Isaac Lukando reports.
A California parole board has voted in favor of releasing Sirhan Sirhan from prison.
He was arrested and convicted of the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy more than 50 years ago.Two of Kennedy's sons spoke in favor of Sirhan's release.
Rachel Silverman has this report from Oakland.
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The US intelligence community is divided over the origin of COVID-19 in China.
This revelation is made in a newly released report…coming three months after US President Joe Biden requested a more in-depth review. The US President says he'll continue to press China into revealing more about what happened soon after the first cases were reported in Wuhan.
US Correspondent Rachel Silverman has that story.
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The White House says another terror attack in Kabul is "likely" and say US forces at the airport are taking additional measures to protect themselves and would-be evacuees.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has disclosed that thousands of potential ISIS-K terrorists have been released from Afghan prisons by the Taliban.
Our Washington Correspondent Simon Marks reports.
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The Pentagon says it believes there was only one explosion in the Kabul airport attack, and one suicide bomber.
The death toll from Thursday’s attack stands at 170 Afghans and 13 US service members- 200 people have been wounded.
Pentagon officials have reiterated that evacuations remain the priority, while confirming they have the capabilities on the ground to deliver on President Biden’s pledge to hunt the terrorists down.
Nina-Maria Potts reports:
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The United Kingdom has entered the final stages of evacuations from Afghanistan. The Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said the final civilians will be flown out in the next 24 hours - to allow time for the military drawdown. Laura Makin-Isherwood reports.
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Half of India's eligible adults – that's roughly 450 million people have now received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccines.
The country was once suffering from an acute vaccine shortage but now authorities hope to fully inoculate all adults in the next three months.
Experts say the target may be unrealistic as Ishan Garg reports from New Delhi.
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