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April 28, 2021
Good morning. We’re covering how virus variants are powering India’s Covid surge and President Biden’s first address to Congress.
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Patients receiving oxygen in the back of a rickshaw in New Delhi this week.Credit.Atul Loke for The New York Times
Is a variant to blame for India’s Covid crisis?
Doctors, the public and the news media in India point to a so-called “double mutant” coronavirus variant both more contagious and more resistant to vaccines as the explanation for skyrocketing cases. Scientists say the data is too thin, and cite other possible reasons behind the country’s second wave.
After twenty years of United States efforts, Afghan military faces a grim outlook
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Last Updated: Apr 28, 2021, 03:15 PM IST
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Ammunition shortages are just one of the serious and systemic issues plaguing soldiers and police officers who will soon have to defend Afghanistan and themselves without U.S. aircraft overhead or American troops on the ground.
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Afghan soldiers, left, and American soldiers blew up a Taliban firing position in the village of Layadira, in Afghanistan s Kandahar Province, on Feb. 14, 2013
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The Taliban attack on a police outpost at the edge of the city began at dusk, with the muted chatter of machine-gun fire and the thud of explosions. The men under attack radioed Capt. Mohammed Fawad Saleh at his headquarters, several miles away, desperate for help.
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