A United States military investigation into a deadly Kabul drone strike on a vehicle in August has found it killed 10 civilians and the driver and that the vehicle targeted was likely not a threat associated with ISIS-K, announced Gen. Frank McKenzie, the top general of US Central Command, at the Pentagon on Friday. [...]

Tottenham to host world's first net zero carbon elite football game -- but is a carbon-neutral match possible?

Tottenham Hotspur hopes to end Sunday's Premier League game against Chelsea on zero -- not zero goals or shots on target, but zero carbon emissions. [...]

Italy will likely hold a referendum on decriminalizing cannabis next year

Italy will likely decide whether or not to decriminalize cannabis in a referendum next year, after campaign groups managed to gather the required 500,000 signatures in a week. [...]

Expo 2020 Dubai: Schools to offer students free transport

The world fair has several of its pavilions designed with children and youth in mind [...]

Pakistani PM Imran Khan to prod Taliban to form inclusive govt

PM Imran Khan took the initiative after meetings with leaders of countries neighbouring Afghanistan [...]

Majid Al Futtaim to get priority in govt contracts: Dubai Ruler

The Nafis programme aims to increase the number of UAE nationals in the sector from 2 per cent to 10 per cent [...]

DOH reports 23,134 additional COVID-19 cases

(Eagle News) — COVID-19 cases in the Philippines climbed to 2,347,550 on Saturday, Sept. 18, after the Department of Health reported 23,134 additional COVID-19 cases. According to the DOH, of the total cases, 90.5 percent were mild, 5 percent asymptomatic, 0.6 percent critical, 1.3 percent severe, and 2.63 percent were moderate cases. Recoveries rose to 2,126,879 with the addition of 27,024 recoveries. The COVID-19 death toll is now at 36583 with the addition of 255 […] [...]

US panel recommends Covid boosters for people 65 and older

by Issam AHMED Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A panel of leading US medical experts advising the government voted in favor of authorizing boosters of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine for everyone aged 65 and up, as well as people at high risk of developing severe Covid. The same committee however rejected an initial proposal, submitted by Pfizer and backed by President Joe Biden’s administration, to fully approve boosters to everyone aged 16 […] [...]

US admits strike in Kabul killed 10 civilians, including 7 children, not IS militants

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A top general admitted the United States had made a “mistake” when it launched a drone strike against suspected Islamic State militants in Kabul, killing 10 civilians including children instead during the frenzied final days of the US pullout from Afghanistan last month. The strike, a macabre coda to the 20-year US war in Afghanistan, was meant to target a suspected IS operation that US intelligence had “reasonable certainty” […] [...]

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