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SRI LANKA CONFIRMS HIGHEST WHEN PEOPLE LOSE DAILY COVID-19 DEATHS AS CONFIDENCE IN THE LOCKDOWN CALLS GROW LOUDER AUGUST GOVERNMENT 20 - 22, 2021 HUNTED BY THE TALIBAN, VOL: 4- ISSUE 261 US-ALLIED AFGHAN FORCES . ARE IN HIDING COLLAPSE AND CONQUEST 30 GLOCAL PAGE 03 HOT TOPICS PAGE 04 COMMENTARY PAGE 07 INSIGHT PAGE 08 Registered in the Department of Posts of Sri Lanka under No: QD/130/News/2021 UNICEF warns A billion children at ‘extreme risk’ from climate impacts LONDON - Almost half the berg’s first school strike, which world’s 2.2 billion children are sparked a global movement. After already at “extremely high risk” a pause in public demonstrations from the impacts of the climate during the coronavirus pandemic, crisis and pollution, according to a global climate strike is planned a report from UNICEF. The UN for September 24.. agency’s head called the situation Henrietta Fore, UNICEF execu- “unimaginably dire”. tive director, said: “For the first Nearly every child around the time, [this report gives] a com- world was at risk from at least one plete picture of where and how of these impacts today, including children are vulnerable to climate heat waves, floods, cyclones, dis- change, and that picture is almost ease, drought, and air pollution, unimaginably dire. Virtually no the report said. But one billion child’s life will be unaffected.” children live in 33 countries fac- ”Children are uniquely vulner- ing three or four impacts simulta- able to climate hazards,” she said. neously. The countries include In- “Compared to adults, children dia, Nigeria and the Philippines, require more food and water per and much of sub-Saharan Africa. unit of body weight and are less The report is the first to com- able to survive extreme weather bine high-resolution maps of cli- events.” mate and environmental impacts The report calls for the inclu- with maps of child vulnerabil- sion of young people in all climate ity, such as poverty and access to negotiations and decisions, in- clean water, healthcare and edu- cluding at the UN Cop26 summit cation. “It essentially [shows] the in Glasgow in November. “The likelihood of a child’s ability to decisions will define their future,” survive climate change,” said Nick said Fore. “Children and young Rees, one of the report’s authors. people need to be recognized as - Mohammad Javadzadeh / IRANIAN RED CRESCENT / AFP The report was launched with the rightful heirs of this planet youth climate activists on the that we all share.” An Iranian soldier distributes and Baluchestan province of people have tried to flee decade insurgency. Iran shares third anniversary of Greta Thun- -The Guardian boxes of juice to Afghan on Thursday (19), as they try Afghanistan since the hardline a 900-kilometre (560-mile) refugees gathered at the to enter the Islamic republic Islamist militants swept into border with Afghanistan, and Iran-Afghanistan border following the takeover of their the capital on Sunday (15), already hosts nearly 3.5 million between Afghanistan and the country by the Taliban earlier completing a stunning rout of Afghans, according to the UN’s WHO’s Africa director says southeastern Iranian Sistan this week. Tens of thousands government forces after a two refugee agency Booster shots ‘make a mockery of vaccine equity’ Taliban revenge fears grow in Afghanistan NAIROBI — The Africa direc- Thursday (19). “As some richer tor at the World Health Organi- countries hoard vaccines, they Report says militants carrying out door-to-door manhunt zation (WHO), Dr. Matshidiso make a mockery of vaccine eq- KABUL - The Taliban are going house- confirmed the fears of many. The Taliban bers to be exposed to torture and execu- Moeti, criticized the decisions by uity.” to-house searching for opponents and have been conducting "targeted door-to- tions." some wealthy nations to start ad- The WHO has called for a mora- their families, according to an intelligence door visits" of people who worked with The Taliban have denied such accusa- ministering coronavirus booster torium on booster shots until the document for the UN that deepened fears US and NATO forces, according to a con- tions in the past and have several times shots, saying the decisions “make end of September to free up vac- Friday (20) Afghanistan's new rulers were fidential document by the UN's threat as- issued statements saying fighters were a mockery of vaccine equity” when cine supplies for low-income na- reneging on pledges of tolerance. sessment consultants seen by AFP. barred from entering private homes. the African continent is still strug- tions. But several wealthy nations After routing government forces and The report, written by the Norwegian They also insist women and journalists gling to get vaccine supplies. have said they would not wait that taking over Kabul on Sunday (15) to end Centre for Global Analyses, said militants have nothing to fear under their new rule, African countries continue to long. two decades of war, the hard-line Islam- were also screening people on the way to although several media workers have lag far behind other continents in In the United States, the Biden ist movement's leaders have repeatedly Kabul airport. reported being thrashed with sticks or inoculations, with only 2% of the administration said Wednesday vowed a complete amnesty as part of a "They are targeting the families of those whips when trying to record some of the continent’s 1.3 billion people fully (18) that it would provide booster well-crafted PR blitz. who refuse to give themselves up, and chaos seen in Kabul in recent days. vaccinated against COVID-19. Al- shots to most Americans begin- Women have also been assured their prosecuting and punishing their families Tens of thousands of people have tried though vaccine shipments have ning as soon as Sept. 20. France rights will be respected, and that the 'according to Sharia law'," Christian Nel- to flee Afghanistan since the Taliban accelerated in recent weeks, Af- and Germany also said they plan Taliban will be "positively different" from lemann, the group's executive director, swept into the capital. rican nations are still not get- to offer shots to vulnerable popu- their brutal 1996-2001 rule. told AFP. The United States said Thursday (19) ting nearly enough to meet their lations, and Israel has already But with thousands of people still try- "We expect both individuals previously it had airlifted about 7,000 people out of needs, Moeti said. given third shots to more than 1 ing to flee the capital aboard evacuation working with NATO/US forces and their Kabul over the past five days. Instead of offering additional million residents. flights, the report for the United Nations allies, alongside with their family mem- -AFP doses to their already fully vac- President Joe Biden defended cinated citizens, she said, rich offering Americans an additional countries should give priority to shot when many countries were poor nations, some of which are struggling to deliver initial doses being ravaged by the coronavirus to their populations. “We’re pro- Taliban kill relative of DW journalist in Afghanistan pandemic. viding more to the rest of the BERLIN - Taliban fighters in Afghani- ist, who now works in Germany, DW which he said showed the danger to “Moves by some countries glob- world than all the rest of the world stan have shot and killed a relative of a said Thursday (19). media workers and their families in Af- ally to introduce booster shots combined,” Biden said in an inter- Deutsche Welle (DW) journalist while A second relative was seriously ghanistan. threaten the promise of a brighter view on ABC. “We’re keeping our hunting for him, the German public wounded but others were able to es- The Taliban had raided the homes of tomorrow for Africa,” Moeti said part of the bargain.” broadcaster said. cape, it said, without giving details of at least three other DW journalists, the in an online news conference -NYT The militants were conducting a the incident. DW director general Pe- broadcaster said. @Copyrightshouse-to-house search for the journal- ter Limbourg condemned the killing, -AFP Man surrenders after ‘bomb threat’ Trending News Sri Lanka: President Gotabaya Raja- stan set to be the final twist in their long Quote for Today near US Library of Congress paksa’s office says he will make a spe- and thorny relationship. The ability to delude yourself may be an WASHINGTON — A man who had a bomb, and one of the offic- cial statement, as the COVID Task Force Burkina Faso: The impoverished Sahel important survival tool. claimed to have a bomb in a pick- ers observed what appeared to be meets to decide on the next step to be state is plunged once more into mourn- -Jane Wagner up truck outside the Library of a detonator in his hand, Manger taken to contain the spread of the coro- ing, as the toll of people killed by suspect- Congress surrendered to police said. The police spent hours ne- navirus. ed jihadists the day before climbs from 49 Word for Today Thursday (19) after hours of nego- gotiating with Roseberry, he said. Japan: The Paralympic flame arrives to 80, including 65 civilians. Minatory [min-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] tiations and evacuations of several Manger told reporters that of- in Tokyo, as virus cases hit fresh records government buildings in the area. ficers had observed items on Bangladesh: Hundreds of sex workers -adjective -menacing; threatening nationwide just four days before the at the country’s largest brothel are vac- The man surrendered peace- Roseberry’s truck that concerned Games begin.

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