Just as US forces struggle with the desperate evacuation from Afghanistan, Vice President Kamala Harris embarks Friday on a trip to Vietnam, site of perhaps an even more infamous American military debacle.

In midst of Afghan crisis, US VP Harris visits Vietnam

Here is WION's Daily Morning News Brief with what’s happening around the world today. Foreign aid has started to reach Haiti days after a powerful earthquake killed nearly 2,200 people and flattened tens of thousands of buildings into rubble.

Morning news brief: Capitol hill bomb threat standoff ends, and more

Sydney extended its two-month-old lockdown for another month and introduced a partial curfew Friday, as Australia's largest city struggled to contain a fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak.

Sydney extends lockdown, imposes partial curfew

A man who threatened to set off a bomb on Washington's Capitol Hill surrendered to police Thursday, ending an hours-long standoff that rattled lawmakers still shaken by January's pro-Trump insurrection.

Capitol Hill bomb threat standoff ends as suspect surrenders

Syria's air defence system engaged "hostile targets" over the capital Damascus late Thursday, state news agency SANA reported, with a military source claiming they were Israeli missiles.

Syria says air defence shot down Israeli missiles

August 20 in history: Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is first published, and more

Joe Biden has said that he, along with his wife, Jill Biden, plan on getting a booster shot. He further said that he is comfortable doing so while millions remain unvaccinated because America has “provided more to the rest of the world than all the rest of the world combined”.

Joe Biden says he and first lady Jill Biden plan on getting COVID-19 booster shot

New Zealand's coronavirus outbreak grew to 31 people and spread to capital Wellington. The first case in the outbreak emerged in Auckland on Tuesday as the government put the entire country into a level-4 lockdown, which means the highest level of restrictions.

New Zealand's COVID-19 outbreak spreads to capital Wellington

Sexual harassment is rife at mining camps in Western Australia, with firms across the industry reporting multiple complaints that have led to 48 staff being fired by the world's biggest, BHP, since 2019, submissions to a government inquiry showed.

Sexual harassment rife in mine camps, western Australian inquiry finds

The Ugandan government announced on Friday it had halted the activities of 54 non-governmental organisations, a major escalation of its efforts to tighten control over civil society.

Uganda suspends 54 NGOs including prominent rights group

Drug firm AstraZeneca on Friday announced positive results from a trial of a treatment for COVID-19 symptoms. The drug, made from a combination of two antibodies, was initially developed as a treatment for those who had already been exposed to the disease.

AstraZeneca hails trial results for COVID-19 treatment

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett received a coronavirus vaccine booster shot on Friday, as the country began administering them to people aged 40 and over amid a spike in infections.

Israel's PM Bennett receives COVID-19 booster shot as infections surge

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