August 15, 2023: Trump, advisers charged, Maui search, Russian fuel station, Taliban, Typhoon Lan

August 15, 2023: Trump, advisers charged, Maui search, Russian fuel station, Taliban, Typhoon Lan

1. Former U.S. President Donald Trump was hit with a fourth set of criminal charges when a Georgia grand jury issued a sweeping indictment accusing him of trying to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.

2. Search teams with cadaver dogs have combed through 25% of the Lahaina disaster zone from the Maui wildfires, discovering the remains of a 99th victim on Monday, but perhaps hundreds more people were unaccounted for nearly a week after the disaster.

3. A fire at a fuel station in the southern Russian region of Dagestan killed at least 30 people including three children, Russia's emergency services ministry said on Tuesday.

4. Afghanistan's Taliban marked the second anniversary of their return to power on Tuesday, celebrating their takeover of Kabul and the establishment of what they said was security throughout the country under an Islamic system.

5. Nearly 900 flights in Japan were cancelled and 240,000 people were ordered to move to safety as a slow-moving typhoon crossed Japan's main island of Honshu not far from the ancient capital of Kyoto, cutting off power to tens of thousands of homes.

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