On the last day of August, here are some things going on:
From National Review, despite rhetoric from his administration, President Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan was not a success.
From FrontpageMag, the shocking parallels between Biden's policies on Afghanistan and immigration.
From Townhall, who benefits from the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan?
From The Washington Free Beacon, in June, Biden waved a mandate that would have required the Pentagon to report to Congress about the risks of leaving Afghanistan.
From the Washington Examiner, the Pentagon denies leaving military service dogs in Afghanistan.
From The Federalist, the Biden presidency is already a disaster, and he's got no one to blame but himself.
From American Thinker, what "high crimes and misdemeanors" meant in 1787.
From CNS News, according to congresscritter Jim Jordan (R-OH), it should be no surprise that five things happen when Democrats get their way.
From LifeZette, congresscritter Kevin McCarthy (R-Cal) makes an "awkward" claim about the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
From NewsBusters, according to right-wing commentator Brent Bozell, the withdrawal from Afghanistan is so bad that even Biden's media hacks can't save him.
From Canada Free Press, the mindless criticizing of then-President Trump makes no sense after what Biden has done.
From Global News, the U.S. helps bring Afghan refugees to Canada, but 1,250 Canadians are still in Afghanistan.
From TeleSUR, Mexico's National Migration Institute suspends two agent for alleged misconduct in an operation to control a migrant caravan.
From TCW Defending Freedom, with apologies to parliamentcritter Stella Creasy (Labour), the Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan is indeed Islam.
From the Evening Standard, Extinction Rebellion protesters occupy parts of two bridges in London. (Do the streets leading to those bridges go anywhere near the Chinese embassy?)
From the Irish Examiner, Taoiseach Micheál Martin announces a "significant reduction" in Ireland's coronavirus restrictions.
From The Brussels Times, what's new in Belgium starting tomorrow.
From Dutch News, the Dutch government will end its financial support for businesses hit by coronavirus restrictions on October 1st.
From Free West Media, Germans expect and fear a new wave of refugees.
From Euractiv, Norway starts pumping natural gas from the third stage of its Troll gas field.
From Hungary Today, Hungarian official Árpád János Potápi delivers school supplies to first-graders in Hungarian-language schools in the Serbian region of Vojvodina. (If you read Hungarian, read the story at OrientPress.)
From ReMix, Hungary and Russia agree to a 15-year gas deal.
From Sputnik International, President Putin will travel to Russia's far east to attend an economic forum.
From The Sofia Globe, 12 districts in Bulgaria are coronavirus red zones.
From Ekathimerini, plans to create a new ministry in the Greek government are dropped.
From Independent Balkan News Agency, the first Afghan refugees arrive in North Macedonia.
From Balkan Insight, Moldovans celebrate the anniversary of their country's return to the Latin alphabet.
From EuroNews, three Balkan states create their own mini-Schengen.
From The Slovenia Times, the annual inflation rate in Slovenia for August in 2.1 percent, due to a rise in fuel prices.
From Malta Today, plans for reopening schools in Malta are finished and await the health authority's approval.
From Allah's Willing Executioners, Swiss police fatally shoot an alleged knife-wielding man who had been "seen praying". (If you read French, read the story at Les Observateurs.)
From The North Africa Post, Spain refuses to host the leader of Polisario a second time, thus avoiding a new crisis with Morocco.
From Turkish Minute, according to a poll, support for Turkey's governing Justice and Development Party has declined to 29.1 percent.
From The Times Of Israel, Israel hands every child a do-it-yourself coronavirus test.
From Egypt Today, according to President Abdel El Sisi, Egypt has has modern and integrated infrastructure.
From The New Arab, why democracy in Tunisia is at a crossroads.
From IranWire, the victims of child marriage in Iran have no voice.
From The Express Tribune, the Pakistani government reduces the price of petroleum products.
From The Afghanistan Times, the U.N. urges the Taliban to allow Afghans to travel abroad. (I'm pleasantly surprised to learn that The Afghanistan Times still exists.)
From India Today, several people are injured in a stampede at a coronavirus vaccination site in Banarhat, West Bengal, India.
From New Age, many centers in Bangladesh suspend coronavirus vaccinations.
From the Daily Mirror, for the first time in history, twin baby elephants are born in Sri Lanka.
From TRT World, music goes silent in Afghanistan.
From The Straits Times, Singapore will send 500,000 coronavirus vaccine doses to Australia, which will return the favor in December.
From the Borneo Post, according to its chief minister, 91 percent of the adults in the Malaysian state of Sarawak have received their first dose of coronavirus vaccine.
From Vietnam Plus, Vietnam Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh inspects a coronavirus treatment hospital in the capital city of Hanoi.
From Gatestone Institute, President Biden lets China "get away with the crime of the century".
From The Stream, Wisconsin reportedly lost track of 82,000 ballots in the 2020 election.
From The Daily Signal, Senator Fake Cherokee (D-MA) is photographed without a mask at a wedding despite an indoor mask mandate.
From Energy Daily, converting thermal energy into electricity could help military personnel.
From The American Conservative, "unworthy of the sacrifice".
From The Western Journal, the illegal alien who brutally murdered Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts learns his sentence.
From BizPac Review, a reporter hits White House press secretary Jen Psaki with a quote from the sister of a Marine killed in the Kabul suicide bombing.
From The Daily Wire, the Biden administration is considering giving aid to the Taliban despite its designation as a terrorist group. (Wouldn't that be giving aid and comfort to our enemies?)
From the Daily Caller, according to a Pentagon spokesman, Americans "get stranded" overseas "all the time".
From Breitbart, according to a survey, Virginia gubernatorial candidates Terry McAuliffe (D) and Glenn Youngkin (R) are in a dead heat.
From Newsmax, according to new research, a major contributor to coronavirus-related deaths is a high viral load in the lungs.
From the New York Post, an interpreter who helped save then-Senator Biden in Afghanistan in 2008 is now stranded there.
And from The Moscow Times, a Russian sushi delivery chain apologizes for featuring a black man in an advertisement.
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