The week in charts: Afghanistan, Haiti, the coronavirus and more

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The scenes at Kabul airport this week tell of the chaos created by America’s withdrawal, after 20 years of war that have cost $2trn and the lives of more than 2,000 Americans—and more than 117,000 Afghans

and spread around the world remains shaky. Although covid-19 was first spotted in Wuhan, in China, the country’s rulers have obstructed investigations into the virus’s emergence and have promoted far-fetched theories that it may have originated elsewhere. Whether or not it leaked from a laboratory, as some suspect, biosafety in labs worldwide. People working with deadly pathogens do so with too little transparency or oversight.

The scale of the canyons and skies of the American West are almost too much for the mind to take in. So it is with thethat has the region in its grip. It has lasted 22 years and is the second-worst in more than a millennium. Lake Mead, America’s biggest reservoir, is at its lowest since it was first filled in the 1930s. On August 16th the Bureau of Reclamation, a federal agency, declared the first-ever water shortage on the Colorado River, which Mead straddles.

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