Good morning. We're covering the wrap-up of the Afghanistan withdrawal and the wreckage from Hurricane Ida. |
 | | Taliban forces patrolled outside the airport gate in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday.Jim Huylebroek for The New York Times |
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The final hours of America's presence in Afghanistan |
Earlier Monday, the U.S. military shot down rockets aimed at the Kabul airport. The U.S. also warned that more attacks, like the one last week outside the airport that killed nearly 200 people, were possible before the withdrawal ended. |
By the evening, a sense of calm and resignation had descended as hope dwindled among the Afghans seeking to escape via the airport. Some had the requisite documents but were not allowed through. Roughly 1,200 people were airlifted from Kabul in 24 hours leading to Monday morning, the White House said, for a total of about 116,000 evacuations in the past two weeks. |
A few hundred people were waiting outside the airport perimeter but were kept at a significant distance by Taliban fighters guarding the area. A few planes — mostly C-17's, large military transport aircraft — took off and turned west into the setting sun. |
 | | Shipping delays and shortages caused by the pandemic are getting worse.Scott McIntyre for The New York Times |
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Get used to coronavirus shortages |
A shipping container that cannot be unloaded in Los Angeles because too many dock workers are in quarantine cannot be loaded with soybeans in Iowa, leaving buyers in Indonesia waiting, and potentially triggering a shortage of animal feed in Southeast Asia. |
Factories around the world are limiting operations, despite powerful demand, because they cannot buy metal parts, plastics and other crucial inputs and raw materials. Earlier this month, Toyota announced it would slash its global production of cars by 40 percent because of a shortage of computer chips. |
Central banks weighing concerns about inflation rates have not been able to answer a key question: How long will the delays last? "There is a genuine uncertainty here," said one economist. Normalcy might be "another year or two" away, he added. |
 | | Debris from a building that collapsed on Rampart Street in New Orleans.Edmund D. Fountain for The New York Times |
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Search-and-rescue teams fanned across Southeast Louisiana after Hurricane Ida pummeled the area, 16 years to the day after Katrina hit. |
Buildings were razed in some areas, and at least one person died. Some places were cut off from rescue teams because of flooded roads or downed power lines. |
But a $14.5 billion system of levees, barriers and pumps that protect New Orleans appeared to have held firm, passing the most severe test since being expanded and hardened after Hurricane Katrina. |
 | | A satellite image from March showing a steam plant near North Korea's main atomic complex in Yongbyon.Satellite image Maxar Technologies, via Associated Press |
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- North Korea has restarted a plutonium-producing reactor, the U.N. nuclear watchdog warned, while talks with the U.S. remain stalled.
- China tightened limits for video games. Children and teenagers are now banned from online gaming on school days, and limited to one hour a day on weekend and holiday evenings under government rules issued on Monday.
- The Indian ride-sharing app Ola, which is backed by SoftBank, could raise up to $1 billion through an initial public offering, Reuters reported.
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 | | Iván Duque, the president of Colombia.Jean Chung for The New York Times |
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 | | Paralympic athletes Zakia Khudadadi and Hossain Rasouli arrived at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Saturday.TBS, via Associated Press |
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It took international collaboration and multiple failed attempts for two Afghan Paralympians to make it to the Tokyo Games. Here's how they did it, and what might come next. |
 | | The family while on set filming their Hulu television series.Philip Cheung for The New York Times |
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TikTok stars on a bigger screen |
For 14 years, the Kardashians ruled the genre of reality shows documenting famous families. When their program ended this summer, it left a gap in the TV landscape — one that the D'Amelios, TikTok's most famous family, want to fill with an upcoming documentary series on Hulu. |
Charli D'Amelio, 17, is the most popular person on TikTok, with 123 million followers. She's sold signature drinks at Dunkin' and has appeared in Super Bowl commercials. Her sister Dixie, 20, and their parents also have large followings. |
Sara Reddy, the showrunner, who had previously worked on "Toddlers and Tiaras," said she wasn't familiar with the D'Amelios when she was first pitched them as subjects. "I'm not a teenager," she told The Times. "I really found it easy to roll my eyes at social media during Covid. Then I dug in, and what really struck me was I felt like the family was a living social experiment." She added, "I came into their life right as fame was changing for them." |
 | | Bryan Gardner for The New York Times |
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In the mini-series "Laetitia," the Oscar-winning documentarian Jean-Xavier De Lestrade turns to fiction to tell a story of grisly murder in western France. |
That's it for today's briefing. See you next time. — Melina |
The latest episode of "The Daily" is about the recall election in California. |
Sanam Yar wrote the Arts and Ideas section. You can reach Melina and the team at briefing@nytimes.com. |
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