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'Shocking': With grief and dismay, US veterans watch Afghanistan fall'Shocking': With grief and dismay, US veterans watch Afghanistan fall. Video: Afghan citizens attempt to enter Pakistan to escape Taliban. WASHINGTON: Marc Silvestri was confident it was time for his colleagues to return home a decade after returning from Afghanistan.However, the army veteran has been startled as he watches the chaotic pullout occur in real-time."It's been a difficult couple of days,", the Revere, Massachusetts-based 43-year-old chief of veterans services told AFP."I never expected the Taliban's speed and audacity to be what it is after twenty years and billions of money," he remarked.The quick Taliban takeover has brought shock, fury, resignation, and fear to US veterans of the 20-year war, as well as their Afghan comrades left behind and countrymen at home hurting from the disastrous end to the US operation.The Afghan military and government dissolved in a matter of days.Because of a failure to thoroughly comprehend Afghanistan, veteran Chad Fross believes that the withdrawal of US soldiers "was always going to be a mess," regardless of who was in command.To see friends die, lose body parts, or lose their wits,'" Fross explained.For Fross and others, the fate of women is a terrible aspect of the Taliban ascendancy."I believe a lot of people are bothered by these kinds of principles that we thought we were going over there to secure," Fross remarked.He also promised to evacuate "thousands" of US citizens and Afghans who had helped with American forces and were afraid of Taliban retaliation.Many veterans believe it is inhumane to leave Afghans who worked with them to deal with the "very real" threat of Taliban retaliation."I just think that's wrong,", Fross added, echoing the views of several veterans interviewed by AFP.In a statement released Monday, the nonpartisan Iraq and Afghanistan Soldiers of America, which is dedicated to post-9/11 veterans, urged US officials to "spend no extra time" in sending Afghans who worked with Americans to the US.In a statement, Tom Porter, IAVA's Executive Vice President for Government Affairs, said, "We must uphold our obligations to those who have sacrificed so much on our behalf."He cited the infamous photographs of the US leaving Saigon, which have colored the US legacy in Vietnam since then and are now circulating again as social media users draw comparisons with the US pullout from Afghanistan.As the collapse unfolded, Silvestri said one Vietnam veteran came out to him, saying, "I never thought I'd see it again..."I believe the best thing any of us can do at this time is listen,", he told AFP, repeating the countless messages from organizations in recent days reminding veterans of support services.
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On Monday, the Mauritian ambassador to the United Nations, Jagdish Koonjul, raised his country's flag over a northern atoll, formally challenging Britain's possession of the Chagos archipelago.
According to the Guardian, officials sang the national hymn and raised the flag during a ceremony on the tiny atoll of Peros Banhos at 10:30 a.m.
We are hoisting the flag in the symbolic manner that the British have done so many times to establish colonies.
"We, on the other hand, are reclaiming what has always been ours," remarked Koonjul.
Following that, officials and the assembled media listened to a pre-recorded address from Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth.
In a message broadcast through a speaker, Jugnauth said, "This is the first time Mauritius has led an expedition to this section of its land."
"I am disappointed that I was unable to participate in this historic visit." He went on to say that he was pleased that "our Chagossian brothers and sisters" were able to visit their homeland without the need for a British escort.
"As the state with sovereignty over the Chagos archipelago, the message I wish to send to the world is that we will ensure wise stewardship of its territory – over maritime security, marine environment conservation, and human rights, particularly the return of those of Chagossian origin,", Jugnauth said.
A metal plaque beneath the flagpole read, "Visit of the Mauritius delegation to the Peros Banhos archipelago, Republic of Mauritius, in the context of the scientific assessment of Blenheim Reef."
In 1965, three years before Mauritius obtained independence from the United Kingdom, the Chagos Islands were separated from it.
The 2,000 people who resided on the tiny islands and atolls were deported after Britain loaned the area to the United States. The majority traveled to Mauritius or the Seychelles, but a few went to the United Kingdom.
The International Court of Justice in The Hague unanimously declared in 2019 that the United Kingdom should hand over the territory to Mauritius. The United Kingdom has not done so.
The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office stated in response to the international rulings in 2019 that the UK "has no doubt as to our sovereignty over the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), which has been under continuous British sovereignty since 1814, " and that "Mauritius has never held sovereignty over the BIOT and the UK does not recognize its claim."
Mauritius' claim is complicated by the fact that the Chagos Islands are 2,200 kilometers (1367 miles) away.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has called a special emergency conference to discuss how to deal with a newly found coronavirus strain that has a significant number of mutations.
Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, the World Health Organization's technical lead on Covid-19, announced the meeting on Thursday during a livestreamed Q&A; session, stating that specialists would meet on Friday to discuss the new strain, called B.1.1.529, which has been found in South Africa, Botswana, and Hong Kong.
"This is being discussed with our colleagues in South Africa by our technical advisory group on virus evolution," Van Kerkhove said of the new version, adding, "We're also meeting again tomorrow."
The WHO official stated, "We don't know much about the newly emerging strain right now," noting that just roughly 100 whole genome sequences are available for review. What is known is that the variety already has "a substantial number of mutations," generating questions and worries about how this would affect diagnostics, treatments, and immunizations. Van Kerkhove said it could take several weeks for researchers to get enough understanding of the B.1.1.529 strain's impact as they continue to investigate it.
Soumya Swaminathan, the WHO's senior scientist, said the South African variety had a number of concerning changes in the spike protein,referring to the molecular mechanism that allows the coronavirus to infiltrate host cells and induce infection.
Ravi Gupta, a professor of clinical microbiology at Cambridge University, said his lab study discovered two particular mutations in the new strain that could improve infectivity and limit antibody recognition. Ravi Gupta had previously warned of the danger of "super mutant" Covid variations.
In response to the World Health Organization's statements on the new COVID strain, the British government briefly halted flights to six African countries, citing Sajid Javid, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, as justification. As well, South Africa and other African countries will be barred from entering Israel as well.
According to Tulio de Oliveira, director of South Africa's Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation, up to 90% of new infections in the country's Gauteng region – which includes Johannesburg, a major city – featured the new type. He recently addressed his worries to the WHO ahead of its emergency meeting, saying that the crucial question to be answered is what exactly is the effect of the vaccines.
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The US won an appeal in London's High Court to extradite Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, on charges of breaching an eavesdropping statute and plotting to hack government systems.
Judge Timothy Holroyde declared, "The court grants the appeal."He said that the US has offered Britain a bundle of assurances about Assange's custody conditions.
Wikileaks' publication of large troves of sensitive US military records and diplomatic cables, which officials claim put lives in danger, has been charged with 18 crimes by US authorities.
The US was appealing a London District Judge's finding on Jan. 4 that Assange should not be extradited because he would most certainly commit suicide in a US prison.
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‘Literally platforming a terrorist’: The New Yorker takes heat after it hosts climate activist arguing for ‘blowing up pipelines’
After a climate change activist called property destruction the most effective protest technique and praised the violence that plagued George Floyd marches, The New Yorker has been accused of inciting violence.
Online commentators have been outraged by a recent episode of The New Yorker podcast discussing whether the climate movement should "embrace sabotage," in which one of the featured guests, Andreas Malm, an ecology professor at Lund University in Sweden, argued that energy pipelines can be attacked for the sake of saving the environment.
Malm, who published a book titled "How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire" earlier this year, appeared to support the ransomware attack that shut down the Colonial Pipeline in May, causing gasoline shortages on the US east coast, and appeared to call for attacks against Total and China's CNOOC $3.5 billion crude pipeline in Uganda and Tanzania.
"If people in that region were to attack the construction equipment or blow up the pipeline before it’s completed, I would be all in favor of that.
I don’t see how that property damage could be considered morally illegitimate given what we know of the consequences of such projects," he said.
Malm brags about his role in a property destruction campaign for a good cause, claiming that his organization slashed the tires of "thousands of SUVs" in Sweden in 2007, claiming that the vandalism caused a decline in demand for the vehicles.
Malm said he doesn't hate nonviolent climate protests, like as Greta Thunberg's school-strike movement, but he is upset by activists', "dogmatic dedication to non-violence".
Malm claimed that the anti-police movement would not have gained as much if Black Lives Matter (BLM) demonstrators had not done "tremendous property destructions" on public and private property.
"I don't think anyone can seriously argue that the BLM movement in 2020 would have achieved more if there had been no confrontation, no windows smashed, no police stations or cars burned", Malm said, referring to the storming and torching of a Minneapolis police station as a "catalyst for the movement".
Some online commentators have chastised Malm's pro-violence stance, accusing the magazine of reinforcing the professor's ideas.
The New Yorker, according to Pluribus Editor Jeryl Bier, is "literally platforming a terrorist".
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"There will be a crash and depression." "Gold, silver, bitcoin, and real estate will all crash," tweeted the author of the bestselling financial intelligence book "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" on Twitter on Thursday.
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More wastewater tests upstate have revealed the presence of polio, increasing concerns that the virus is spreading after a resident of Rockland County who was not immunized was paralyzed and hospitalized last month.
State officials informed county leaders earlier this week that wastewater samples collected from two different locations in Orange County in June and July tested positively for the virus.
The findings come days after the New York State Department of Health, in the absence of any more cases, discovered comparable signs of community spread in sewage samples taken in nearby Rockland.
According to prior polio outbreaks, "New Yorkers should be aware that there may be hundreds of additional cases of infection for every case of paralytic polio identified,", State Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett stated.
The Department is treating the lone incidence of polio as only the tip of a much larger potential spread, especially in light of the most recent wastewater discoveries.
The initial case is genetically linked to seven positive samples that were identified through analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in both Rockland and Orange Counties.
Following the hospitalization and paralysis of an unvaccinated adult in Rockland last month, the first confirmed case of polio in the United States in ten years, state officials are urging everyone who is not immune to the potentially fatal virus to get vaccinated.
Before major vaccination campaigns in the second half of the 20th century that virtually eradicated the virus, polio was a highly contagious and possibly fatal virus that disabled or killed thousands of children in the United States.
It may take up to 30 days before symptoms, which can be minor and flu-like, start to manifest.
Officials determined that the strain discovered in Rockland was a product of the oral polio vaccination, which contains a milder variant of the virus that can occasionally replicate and spread among those who have not received the vaccine.
In the United States, an inactivated polio immunization is now given as an injection rather than an oral vaccine.
Although the person who contracted the virus hadn't recently traveled, the variety found in Rockland is genetically connected to a strain recently discovered in Jerusalem, Israel, according to officials.
According to officials, the virus's origin is still being looked into.
As more information becomes available, Bassett said, "What we do know is clear: the risk of polio is present in New York today."" We must face this moment by ensuring that adults, especially those who are pregnant, and young children by the age of two are up to date on their immunizations—the safe protection that every New Yorker needs against this crippling virus."
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A petition against Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky's scheduled speech at a singing competition akin to Eurovision has been signed by tens of thousands of Italians. Matteo Salvini, the deputy prime minister, told journalists that the festival "should remain the festival of Italian song and nothing else."
According to Reuters, the petition, which accuses NATO and Kiev of "brutally repressing" Russian speakers in the Donbass, has gathered about 33,000 signatures.
The petition asks the Sanremo Music Festival's organizers to revoke Zelensky's invitation to speak via video link on the contest's final night, February 11, at the annual Eurovision-style competition.
"Zelensky? I have no idea how he sings," Salvini told reporters on Thursday. "I won't listen to anything else if I have time to watch state television, just to see music."
Salvini stated that the stage at Sanremo should "stay reserved for music," even though he favors the "Western viewpoint" on the dispute.
The Italian newspaper Il Post stated that former congressman Alessandro Di Battista is planning a "counter-festival" to oppose Zelensky's appearance, and that Gianni Cuperlo of the center-left Democratic Party advised the Sanremo festival organizers not to "confuse" politics with leisure.
Zelensky has been on a PR crusade in the West for the past 11 months, during which Russia's military campaign in Ukraine has been ongoing. The former actor and comedian spoke via video link from Kiev at the Glastonbury music festival in the UK, the Cannes and Venice film festivals, and earlier this month at the Golden Globes.
According to Il Post, Zelensky himself asked for permission to speak at Sanremo.
Italy has less support for Zelensky and NATO's actions in Ukraine than the majority of Western European nations. A study conducted earlier this month found that 50% of Italians are against their country's arming of Kiev, while a similar percentage is in favor of a speedy resolution to the crisis, even if it means Ukraine giving up lost territory.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has nonetheless vowed to support the Ukrainian cause "fully."
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The coronavirus that is threatening the world now is considerably different from the one that first appeared in Wuhan two years ago, according to Belgium's prime minister, who claims it is three times more contagious than the initial variant.
As hysteria over the "Omicron" strain sweeps Europe, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo told a press conference on Friday that the latest wave of coronavirus should be designated Covid-2.
De Croo was speaking while Belgian scientists looked into two Covid-19 samples that were thought to represent the new B.1.1.529. Virologist Marc Van Ranst confirmed that one of the samples was the variety first discovered in Botswana shortly after De Croo's remarks. On Monday, the patient returned from Egypt.
The strain, designated "Omicron" by the World Health Organization on Friday, was initially discovered in Botswana on November 11 and is thought to have spread throughout southern Africa.
The spike protein of the variation has 32 mutations, which could allow the virus to bypass vaccine-induced protection. The strain has been dubbed "the worst one we've encountered so far" by the UK Health Security Agency.
De Croo was speaking while Belgian scientists looked into two Covid-19 samples that were thought to represent the new B.1.1.529. Soon after, Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel recently announced a new set of COVID-19 measures to combat the virus's fatal fourth wave.
The limits include a three-week shutdown of nightclubs and dance halls, as well as the prohibition of private parties. Restaurants will be limited to a maximum of six people per table, and hospitality will be obliged to close at 11 p.m.
"We're making every effort to ensure that everyone can see one another. We can still go to pubs and restaurants, and we can still participate in events, but we must do so securely,", De Croo noted.
The extremely contagious Delta strain, which initially appeared in India, has been driving the fourth wave thus far. The prime minister stated that Belgium has never had more infections than it does now.
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Thailand: After years of accusations of torture, the military is on trial.
Every year, reports of troops being abused mercilessly within military barracks surface in Thailand. In 2020, an organization monitoring human rights in Thailand said that violence is part of the Thai Army's "culture of torture," a claim backed up by an Amnesty International investigation. Private Wichian Puaksom, 26, was one of the many casualties, dying in June 2011 after being assaulted at a military installation in Narathiwat. According to Wichian's niece Narissarawan Keawnopparat, prosecutors are expected to present the case against ten suspects in the 46th Military Circle Court on Thursday (September 30). Narissarawan has been lobbying for the trial for years. Despite persistent intimidation and death threats, Narissarawan has fought boldly for justice, taking on the powerful Army. She was even arrested on a slander charge, but that didn't stop her from uncovering the truth about her uncle's death. Who was Private Wichian? Wichian was ordained after completing secondary school in the southern province of Songkhla, where he was born and raised. He went on to Mahachulalongkornrajavidyala University, a higher education college for monks, where he earned a first-class honors degree. Thammasat University awarded him a master's degree in community development. After eight years as a monk, Wichian, at 26, chose to give up his saffron robes and join the army to serve his motherland. He could have avoided conscription if he had continued on as a monk. But, feeling that every Thai man owes it to his country to serve in the army, he volunteered and opted to serve in the insurgency-plagued southern province of Narathiwat. What happened to him? His service in the South began on May 1, 2011, although little is known about his life throughout the next month. Wichian escaped the Narathiwat-based training camp twice, according to records, once on May 9 and again on May 29. His military instructors were reportedly incensed by his escape and harshly thrashed him after catching him. Wichian's mother received a call from a doctor at Naradhiwas Rajanagarindra Hospital on June 5 informing her that her son was very ill. Her son was covered with bruises and burn marks when she arrived at the hospital. He died later that night as a result of his injuries. Autopsy showed he had suffered broken ribs after being hit with blunt objects. It registered the cause of death as kidney failure caused by serious wounds. Long saga. Narissarawan, a child social worker, has been fighting for justice in the case for a long time. After a military commander submitted a complaint regarding a Facebook post in which she accused the Army of sheltering "certain people," she was jailed in 2016. Her determination was
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