World News Desk

• ‘Game over’: Westerners Rush to Leave Kabul as Taliban Takes Capital

• First Water Cuts in U.S. West Supply to Hammer Arizona Farmers

• Pandemic Prompts Changes in How Future Teachers Are Trained

• U.S. Says Up to Afghans to Defend Country, but Will Isolate Taliban if They Take Power

• Ethiopia Calls ‘All Capable’ Citizens to Fight in Tigray War

• Nagasaki Marks 76th Anniversary of Atomic Bombing

• Resurgent Taliban Take Provincial Capital, Kill Afghan Government Spokesman

• Forecasters: Hurricane Season to be Busier than First Thought

• Mexico’s Referendum on Trying Ex-presidents Falls Short

• Mired in Crises, Lebanon Marks 1 Year Since Horrific Blast

• Burkina Faso Sees More Child Soldiers as Jihadi Attacks Rise

• Senate Unveils $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill

• LA’s Venice Beach a Flashpoint in City’s Homeless Crisis

• Vigilantes Raid Southern Mexico Town, Abduct 21, Burn Homes

• South, North Korea Reopen Hotlines as Leaders Seek to Rebuild Ties

• To Reach a Peace Deal, Taliban Say Afghan President Must Go

• Firefighting Demand, Lack of Drivers Bring Airport Fuel Shortages in U.S. West

• UN Adopts First Resolution on Vision, Aims to Help 1 Billion

• Tunisian Democracy in Crisis After President Ousts Government

• U.S. Imposes New Cuba Sanctions over Human Rights Abuses