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A United States drone strike has killed the leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, in Afghanistan, confirmed US President Joe Biden on Monday, 1 August in a speech from the White House. Al-Zawahiri was killed in a precision strike “that would remove him from the battlefield, once and for all," Biden said. White House officials said that Al-Zawahiri was sheltering in downtown Kabul to reunite with his family, and was killed in "a precise tailored airstrike" using two Hellfire missiles. The…