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Students at Connecticut’s Quinnipiac University will be fined up to $2,275 and lose internet access if they fail to comply with the university’s COVID-19 vaccination policies. [emaillocker id=521003] The private liberal arts college in New Haven County announced the new penalties on Aug. 16 in an email sent to some 600 students who haven’t yet provided proof of COVID-19 vaccination or requested an exemption. Students at Quinnipiac were required to submit their vaccination records by Aug. 1, according to an email obtained by The Epoch Times. Those not in compliance by Sept. 14 will begin to face $100 weekly fines, with increases…

MPs hammered Boris Johnson over the ‘catastrophic failure’ in Afghanistan today – as the PM swiped at Joe Biden saying the ‘successful’ Afghan mission could not continue without ‘American might’. As the desperate evacuation effort continues in Kabul, the premier defended his handling of the chaos insisting there was a ‘hard reality’ as a result of the US stance. [emaillocker id=521003] Mr Johnson told the recalled chamber – packed out for the first time since last year after Covid restrictions were dropped – that the ‘sacrifice’ of British troops was ‘seared into our national consciousness’. He said the ‘core mission’…

Facebook has said that it will maintain its ban of pro-Taliban content under “U.S. law,” and that it was blocking WhatsApp accounts linked to the terrorist group, after the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan on Sunday. [emaillocker id=521003] “The Taliban is sanctioned as a terrorist organization under U.S. law and we have banned them from our services under our Dangerous Organization policies,” a Facebook spokesperson told several media outlets. Facebook, which owns Instagram and WhatsApp, has a “dedicated team of Afghanistan experts, who are native Dari and Pashto speakers and have knowledge of local context, helping to identify and alert us to emerging…

Tammy Abraham has completed his £34m move to Roma after finding himself surplus to requirements at Chelsea. Roma were in the market for a new striker after selling Edin Dzeko to Internazionale, who signed the Bosnian after allowing Romelu Lukaku to join Chelsea for £97.5m, and have won the race for Abraham after fending off competition from Arsenal. The 23-year-old has been allowed to leave his boyhood club after playing only 17 minutes in the final three months of last season under Thomas Tuchel. Abraham found himself on the sidelines after Tuchel replaced Frank Lampard as Chelsea’s manager, although the forward still…

Rail fares in England and Wales are on track to rise at their fastest rate in a decade unless ministers decide to prevent steep price increases to encourage commuters back on to trains. [emaillocker id=521003] Annual increases in rail fares are usually governed by the July retail prices index (RPI), plus another 1%. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said on Wednesday that RPI for July was 3.8%, meaning prices could rise by 4.8% in January. That would be the steepest increase since 2012. However, the government has not yet revealed its plans for January price rises as it considers…

The Biden administration is facing increased scrutiny by congressmen from both parties following the collapse of Afghanistan to the Taliban earlier this week. [emaillocker id=521003]President Joe Biden defended his decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan in a press conference Monday. He criticized the previous three administrations’ handling of the war over the 20 years that the United States has occupied the country. “Our mission was never supposed to be nation-building … [or] creating a unified centralized democracy,” Biden said at one point. He continued, “There was never a good time to withdraw U.S. forces,” referencing the several attempts by other administrations to get…

The U.S. Air Force is investigating the lead-up to an incident earlier this week involving an American military aircraft that departed a Kabul airport with civilians hanging onto its landing gear who fell to their deaths. A statement from the Air Force confirmed that human remains were discovered on the C-17 military plane, and it confirmed that the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI) is reviewing all information and details about the incident. “OSI’s review will be thorough to ensure we obtain the facts regarding this tragic incident,” said a statement from the Air Force, which was obtained by…

New Zealand will go into a national lockdown on Tuesday night, after detecting one case of Covid-19. The entire country will be at alert level 4 – the highest level of lockdown – for at least three days from midnight, and the regions of Auckland and Coromandel for four to seven days. New Zealand has not had a level 4 lockdown in more than a year, and the case is believed to be the first Delta in-community transmission. The prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, said: “Delta has been called a gamechanger, and it is. It means we need to again go hard…

U.S. soldiers deployed at the Kabul airport have been shot at and were forced to return fire, killing two, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said on Aug. 16. Two “armed individuals” were shot and killed in separate incidents at the airport, Kirby told reporters in an off-camera briefing, coming as thousands of people crowd around the facility to try to flee Afghanistan after the Taliban took over the country and declared victory on Aug. 15. About 2,500 troops are currently at the airport, Kirby said. There are “preliminary indications” that one U.S. soldier may have been wounded. The United States will now focus…

Many thousands of people may have isolated unnecessarily because a government error meant they were “pinged” by the Covid app for a “close contact” in the prior five days rather than two days, a Whitehall whistleblower has told the Guardian. As the isolation rules for double vaccinated people were relaxed on Monday, it has emerged that users were never told the app could notify of contact with an infected person as far back as five days before the positive test. Official guidance for the NHS Covid app defined close contact as occurring two days before the infected person had symptoms, while the official NHS…