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August 19, 2021: Taliban fire on protesters, Biden on troops in Afghanistan, Masks, Haiti, Sydney

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August 19, 2021: Taliban fire on protesters, U.S. troops may stay longer, Masks, Haiti, Sydney

1. Several people were killed in the Afghan city of Asadabad when Taliban fighters fired on people waving the national flag at an Independence Day rally, a witness said.

2. U.S. troops may stay in Afghanistan past an Aug. 31 deadline to evacuate Americans, President Joe Biden said, and the Pentagon said the U.S. military does not currently have the ability to reach people beyond Kabul airport.

3. Florida's largest school district imposed a mask mandate in defiance of the state's governor.

4. Tremors shook buildings in the southern Haitian city of Les Cayes, a Reuters witness said, a few days after a devastating earthquake killed almost 2,200 people across the Caribbean nation.

5. Australia reported its biggest one-day rise in coronavirus infections, as authorities began doling out emergency supplies of vaccine in the Sydney suburbs worst hit by an outbreak of the fast-moving Delta strain.

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