The chaos at Kabul's airport is conflicting with President Joe Biden's reassuring words in a speech Friday. A Defense Department official said U.S. troops evacuated around 5,700 people Friday, including around 250 Americans, from Kabul.
U.S. Air Force Handout via ReutersIn a rare bright spot in the week since the Taliban recaptured Afghanistan, the U.S. Air Mobility Command confirmed that an Afghan woman delivered a baby girl after going into labor onboard a packed evacuation flight on Saturday. After the woman went into labor before landing at the U.S. airbase in Ramstein, Germany, where scores of evacuees are being taken, the pilot made a potentially lifesaving maneuver to save the woman’s life.
"Seven billion tonnes of rain fell across Greenland within a three-day period the past week.It's also the largest amount on record.Higher temperatures have also triggered the warming of ice sheets, which experts say are melting faster.Ice loss on August 15, triggered by rain and high temperatures, was seven times above average for mid-August."You raise temperatures a couple degrees in the mid latitudes, it's something you don't maybe notice even.
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