Tweets Of The Day

Virus update:
• Idaho hospitals nearly buckling in steady COVID surge.
• Excitement meets worry as European kids head back to school.
• U.S. hospitals have a nurse staffing crisis.
• African youths battle an economic downturn.

More @AP coverage: https://t.co/8HNd26RvF6

— The Associated Press (@AP) September 3, 2021

India tightened curbs on movement in Kashmir's main city of Srinagar, with scores of armed soldiers fanning out ahead of prayers on Friday, a day after a veteran secessionist leader, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, was laid to rest https://t.co/hmV1HUerXB

— Reuters (@Reuters) September 3, 2021

After just a year in office, Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga says he will not run for his ruling party's leadership, effectively ending his tenure and throwing wide open the race for the next premierhttps://t.co/MwGRIg2Xhd pic.twitter.com/dmgmxMc3dt

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) September 3, 2021

Worst Tripoli fighting in a year shows limits of Libya peace push https://t.co/CdqzS8pr1l pic.twitter.com/qpdmMrLZX1

— Reuters (@Reuters) September 3, 2021

#UPDATE IS-inspired attacker shot dead after New Zealand supermarket knife rampage.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she is "gutted" the man, a Sri Lankan national, had managed to carry out his "hateful" assault even though he was on a terror watchlist https://t.co/8Hgl5n1AEg pic.twitter.com/2blzac6Ts6

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) September 3, 2021

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended his decision to call an election during the pandemic in first debate of the campaign for this month’s election. Trudeau is facing a tough re-election battle against his Conservative Party rival. https://t.co/o6ICPaMacu

— The Associated Press (@AP) September 3, 2021

On TikTok, U.S. Marines salute the car owned by Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee, who was killed in #Afghanistan last week. Gee left the car in the parking lot where she worked aboard Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. pic.twitter.com/W9LAxM0Xku

— James LaPorta (@JimLaPorta) September 2, 2021

People should probably read Nicolas Chaillan's take-this-job-and-shove-it letter to the USAF. Chaillan is the French software entrepreneur hired by Will Roper to be the Air Force's chief software officer. And apologies to Johnny Paycheck.https://t.co/G0M6DDq8cm

— Steve Trimble (@TheDEWLine) September 2, 2021

PICTURES OF THE WEEK (28 August- 3 September)#AFP https://t.co/mmYpIJBfYn pic.twitter.com/2sJC9jmUIE

— AFP Photo (@AFPphoto) September 3, 2021