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Aug 31

The U.S. Justice Department said it had evidence classified documents were deliberately concealed from the FBI when it tried to retrieve them in June from former President Donald Trump's Florida home, prompting its unprecedented search of his estate reut.rs/3B1JxnI 1/5

In a 54-page filing, prosecutors publicly alleged for the first time that Trump aides falsely certified in June that the former president had returned all the government records he had stored in his home after leaving the White House in January 2021 2/5

The filing also revealed that Trump lawyers 'explicitly prohibited government personnel from opening or looking inside any of the boxes' inside a storage room when FBI agents first traveled to his Palm Beach Mar-a-Lago resort in June to retrieve the records 3/5

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Aug 30

Lauded in the West for helping bring down the Berlin Wall and end the Cold War without bloodshed, Mikhail Gorbachev was despised at home as the gravedigger of the communist Soviet Union. He has died at age 91 reut.rs/3e4Gke6

One of the most talked-about people in the world, here are some quotes about Gorbachev, who was the last Soviet leader: reut.rs/3AyMJWC

Here's a timeline of some key events over the nearly seven years that Mikhail Gorbachev held power in the Soviet Union reut.rs/3R4o8zJ

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Aug 29

Early estimates put the damage from Pakistan's deadly floods at more than $10 billion, its planning minister said, adding that the world has an obligation to help the South Asian nation cope with the effects of man-made climate change reut.rs/3PZGh0j 1/5

In the north, residents and officials said villages were almost entirely cut off from the rest of the country due to destruction wrought by heavy rains. Damage to highways is also hampering relief efforts in southern Pakistan 2/5

Unprecedented flash floods caused by historic monsoon rains have washed away roads, crops, infrastructure and bridges, killing at least 1,000 people in recent weeks and affecting more than 33 million reut.rs/3pR3YgX 3/5

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Aug 26

JUST IN: The U.S. Justice Department released a redacted version of the affidavit it used to win court approval for the FBI's search of former President Donald Trump's home, a document that could shed more light on the evidence that led to the search reut.rs/3Klj0ox

The FBI action was part of a federal probe into whether Trump illegally removed documents when he left office in January 2021 after losing the presidential election to Democrat Joe Biden, and whether he tried to obstruct the government's investigation reut.rs/3TgSctA

The affidavit, a document that is not usually made public unless someone is charged with a crime, is a sworn statement outlining the evidence that gave the department probable cause to seek a search warrant

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Aug 24

Afghan women's rights activists opened a library in Kabul hoping to provide an oasis for women increasingly cut off from education and public life under the ruling Taliban reut.rs/3AhhAa1 1/5

Since taking over Afghanistan a year ago, the Islamist Taliban said women should not leave home without a male relative and must cover their faces, though some women in urban centers ignore the rule 2/5

Secondary schools for girls largely remain closed after the Taliban went back on promises to open them in March 3/5

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Aug 24

Six months ago today, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin ordered tens of thousands of Russian troops into Ukraine on a 'special military operation,' a mass invasion on a scale unseen in Europe since World War Two tmsnrt.rs/3CtCaGJ 1/7

Since then, tens of thousands of people have been killed, millions have fled and cities have been reduced to rubble by Russia's relentless bombardment reut.rs/3QM5f4D 2/7

As Russian bombs fell on Kyiv and its residents huddled in metro stations for shelter or crammed train stations to flee, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy made clear he would go nowhere reut.rs/3CpTPiJ 3/7

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