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Six years ago, more than a million migrants travelled across the Mediterranean and Europe to reach Germany - many of them Syrians escaping the civil war. So, could history repeat itself as refugees try to flee Taliban rule in Afghanistan? Henry Ridgwell reports.

California voters have rejected a move to unseat their governor in a recall election, a rarely used provision of direct democracy in some 20 U.S. states. Nearly two thirds of voters had rejected the recall effort by mid-Wednesday. Newsom, a Democrat, faced down 46 challengers.

Iceland is now the home of the world's largest direct air capture and storage plant of carbon dioxide. The plant aims to remove 4,000 tons of carbon dioxide - one of the main contributors to global warming - from the air each year, as VOA’s Mariama Diallo reports.

VOA60 World- Authorities shot and killed a violent extremist Friday after he stabbed six people at supermarket in Auckland, New Zealand

As Haiti recovers from a quake that struck the country nearly two weeks ago, relatives bury a girl near the ruins of her house. She’s among the more than 2,200 people killed by the 7.2 magnitude quake. Elsewhere, women say they fear for their safety and that of their children.

Hurricane Ida made landfall in the U.S. Gulf Coast state of Louisiana Sunday as a Category Four storm, with 240-kilometer-per hour winds on the Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane intensity. The storm’s arrival comes 16 years after Hurricane Katrina’s onslaught. Arash Arabasadi reports

Thirty years ago, a group of Soviet hard-liners attempted a coup in the Soviet Union aimed at stopping reforms started by then President Mikhail Gorbachev. The coup failed in the course of three days but put in motion events that would forever change its course. VOA’s Daria Dieguts reports.

Two Afghan American families who were in Afghanistan when the U.S.-backed government fell last week are talking about their harrowing journey from the Kabul airport back to America. VOA Afghan service reporter Mohammad Ahmadi visited with the families and filed this report.

As Israel expands its third COVID booster shot campaign, analysts are pointing to wide disparities between Jews and Arabs when it comes to getting vaccinations. While 80 percent of eligible Jewish Israelis have been vaccinated, about one-third of Arab citizens of Israel have yet to get their shots.

Two Afghan American families who were in Afghanistan when the U.S.-backed government fell last week are talking about their harrowing journey from the Kabul airport back to America. VOA Afghan service reporter Mohammad Ahmadi visited with the families and filed this report.