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Midday bulletin 16 August 2021

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Scott Morrison to meet with the national security cabinet over the Taliban's takeover of almost all of Afghanistan; New South Wales records 478 locally acquired cases of COVID-19 and 8 COVID related deaths and Roger Federer out of tennis for months with a knee injury.



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