Planes with evacuees unable to leave Afghanistan, unclear as to why

A robot dog operating alongside ATVs in the southwest U.S. Photo: Courtesy Ghost Robotics.

Police in Windsor, Ont., commenced their enforcement Saturday of an injunction granted on Friday by an Ontario judge to allow for protesters at the Ambassador Bridge to be cleared out. Sean O’Shea has more details on how the enforcement proceeded, with protesters closest to the bridge seen moving back peacefully, while others drove their vehicles away from the area.

COVID-19 in Nova Scotia declined slightly since Friday, the province announced on Saturday.In an abbreviated weekend news release, the province said there were 79 people in hospital who were admitted due to COVID-19 and were receiving specialized care in a designated unit. That’s down by three since Friday.However, another three people were in intensive care, for a total of 14.

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SALT LAKE CITY - Traffic deaths decreased in Utah after the state enacted the strictest drunken driving laws in the nation five years ago, new research published Friday by a U.S. government agency shows.The findings, which pertain to fatalities involving and not involving alcohol, provide initial validation for conservative lawmakers who passed the law over concerns from restaurant and tourism industry lobbyists.In the study published by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, researchers wrote that, in the years after Utah changed the drunken driving threshold from .08% to .05% blood-alcohol content, the number of crashes and fatalities fell even though drivers logged more miles."Changing the law to .05% in Utah saved lives and motivated more drivers to take steps to avoid driving impaired," said Dr.

HARPER, Kan. - Rain on a wedding day can be upsetting for any couple, but a tornado can be downright frightening during the vows.In some cultures, rain is viewed as good luck, symbolizing various things from fertility to unity. It can also represent that your marriage will last a lifetime. Candra and Caleb Pence would agree.It was May 19, 2012, and the 21-year-old bride was ready to marry the man of her dreams.

MOSCOW - With the risk of war looming larger, Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Joe Biden held a high-stakes telephone call Saturday as a tense world watched and worried that an invasion of Ukraine could begin within days.Before talking to Biden, Putin had a telephone call with French President Emmanuel Macron, who met with him in Moscow earlier in the week to try to resolve the biggest security crisis between Russia and the West since the Cold War. A Kremlin summary of the call suggested that little progress was made toward cooling down the tensions.The closely watched call between Biden and Putin began shortly after 11 a.m.

KABUL, Afghanistan - Demonstrators in Afghanistan’s capital Saturday condemned President Joe Biden’s order freeing up $3.5 billion in Afghan assets held in the U.S. for families of America’s 9/11 victims — saying the money belongs to Afghans.Protesters who gathered outside Kabul's grand Eid Gah mosque asked America for financial compensation for the tens of thousands of Afghans killed during the last 20 years of war in Afghanistan.Biden's order, signed Friday, allocates another $3.5 billion in Afghan assets for humanitarian aid to a trust fund to be managed by the U.N.

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COVID-19 on Saturday.According to the provincial COVID-19 dashboard, the deaths involve a person in their 70s and two people in their 80s in Zone 1 and one person in their 90s in Zone 4.A total of 286 people with COVID-19 have now died in New Brunswick. Anti-mandate demonstration in Fredericton enters Day 2 Since Friday, hospitalizations have dropped by 13, for a total of 122 people in hospital.

Ottawa is seeing another influx of people in the downtown as the demonstrations against COVID-19 public health measures and vaccine mandates enters its third weekend. Reports say there was some sort of party or additional protest late Friday night.

WILLINGBORO, Pa. - Officials in Burlington County announced Saturday that a man was shot and killed in a parking lot in a Willingboro shopping center. The investigation began after officers were called to the Kennedy Plaza in the 400 block of John F. Kennedy Way just after 7:30 p.m.

COLOMBO (News 1st); President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said that the nature or extent of the challenges will not matter in fulfilling the promises made to the people.He noted that development activities continue in the country while taking necessary steps to control the COVID-19 pandemic.The President also pointed out that the economy, which had been collapsed for nearly two years, is gradually recovering.The President made these remarks participating in the first round of discussions in a series of sessions with professionals representing various fields, held at the President’s House on Friday (11).The professionals who participated in the discussion said that they are further committed to make the national programme a success by giving the necessary strength to achieve the goals desired by the President, said a statement.The professionals vehemently rejected the allegations spread by some sections with the objective of achieving narrow political agendas, the statement added.Experts in the field said that the new approach to agriculture initiated by the President is being continuously supported by the researchers and entrepreneurs who are engaged full time in these fields, further noted the statement.Representatives from a wide range of fields, including education, policy, sociology, agriculture, research, water and renewable energy, medical, engineering and innovation, were present at the discussion with the President.Ministers, State Ministers, Members of Parliament, the Governor of the Central Bank, the Secretary to the President, the Principal Advisor to the President and many others were also present.

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Ontario hospital on Saturday with COVID-19, as the province continues to battle the pandemic.New data released by the province on Feb. 12 suggests a drop in the number of people in hospital from the previous day.

LAS VEGAS - Members of the U.S. Air Force were greeted as they returned home to Nevada this week after assisting with the massive evacuation effort of Afghan nationals and their families amid the U.S.

Phil Collins detailed the extent to which his health has declined in recent years, noting that he can no longer physically play the drums.  The singer will hit the road with his band, Genesis, again later this month, reuniting with Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford. Although he’ll be singing on the tour, he’ll no longer play the drums.

KABUL, Afghanistan - Dozens of foreigners, including Americans, boarded a commercial flight at Kabul airport on Thursday in the first large-scale evacuation since U.S and NATO forces withdrew from Afghanistan at the end of last month.The departure of some 200 Westerners on a Qatar Airways flight to Doha marked a significant breakthrough in the bumpy coordination between the U.S.

WASHINGTON - The sailor killed in the suicide bomber attack during the evacuation mission in Afghanistan late last month has been posthumously promoted, according to the Navy. And he and the other 12 service members who died during the attack have been awarded Purple Hearts.The 13 troops were killed Aug.

American Airlines aircraft.(Photo by Alex Tai/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) FORT WORTH, Texas - American Airlines will no longer offer paid pandemic time off for employees who get sick but are not vaccinated.It says that applies to workers who are infected or are put into quarantine because of exposure to the virus. Those employees will have to use sick time or take medical leave.The airline will continue to pay for time off for those employees who have shown proof of vaccination.American has 133,000 employees.The policy goes into effect Oct.

announced on Monday more than 124,000 Afghans and 6,000 U.S. citizens were successfully evacuated out of Afghanistan. "The United States mobilized an unprecedented, global effort through our diplomatic channels to evacuate U.S.

FORT DRUM, N.Y. - Soldiers who helped during evacuations in Kabul, Afghanistan returned home to a thunderous welcome ceremony on Sept. 6 at Fort Drum, New York. Video shared of the ceremony shows the "Polar Bears" of the 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry, filing into a building as friends and family applaud and cheer. The commander of the 10th Mountain Division, Maj.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The Taliban on Tuesday announced a caretaker Cabinet that paid homage to the old guard of the group, giving top posts to Taliban personalities who dominated the 20-year battle against the U.S.-led coalition and its Afghan government allies.Interim Prime Minister Mullah Hasan Akhund headed the Taliban government in Kabul during the last years of its rule.

Justin Trudeau says he “might have” been hit by gravel thrown by protesters at an election campaign stop in London, Ont., on Monday.Trudeau was leaving the event when he was surrounded by angry protesters, some of whom appeared to be throwing handfuls of gravel and debris at the party leader.RCMP security detail were forced to hold up their hands to try and protect Trudeau from getting hit as he got on his campaign bus. Some members of the media following the Liberal campaign were hit by the small projectiles, but were not hurt.At London rally protesters threw gravel/small rocks at Trudeau.

This image obtained by Fox News shows the Taliban's white flag painted next to the former U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan.

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday that the country needs to “look back” at the 20-year war in Afghanistan, and that investigation should include the State Department.

As Afghans try to escape the Taliban’s wrath, the European Union is bracing itself for a potential influx of migrants. But as Redmond Shannon reports, EU leaders can’t decide how to avoid a chaotic repeat of the 2015 Syrian refugee crisis.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The Taliban said on Monday they have taken control of Panjshir province north of Kabul, the last holdout of anti-Taliban forces in the country and the only province the Taliban had not seized during their blitz across Afghanistan last month.Thousands of Taliban fighters overran eight districts of Panjshir overnight, according to witnesses from the area who spoke on condition of anonymity, fearing for their safety.

Afghanistan have been unable to leave the country for days, officials said Sunday, with conflicting accounts emerging about why the flights weren’t able to take off as pressure ramps up on the United States to help those left behind to flee.An Afghan official at the airport in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif said that the would-be passengers were Afghans, many of whom did not have passports or visas, and thus were unable to leave the country. He said they had left the airport while the situation was sorted out.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - It was Nov. 13 , 2001.

Fred Bednar returned to his property on Friday in the Killiney Beach area to find his home completely destroyed by the White Rock Lake wildfire.

Afghanistan, says she’s getting heartbreaking pleas for help from women still trapped in the country.Shakila Zareen, when she was only 17 years old, was forcibly married to a much older cousin, 14 years her senior, who had links to the Taliban. Her husband shot her in the face.

resettle thousands of Afghan allies into the United States and confirmed that DHS has denied evacuees from entering the U.S. due to "derogatory" information obtained during the vetting process.Mayorkas was joined by Robert J.

Shakila Zareen fled to Canada from Afghanistan after her husband shot her in the face. As Rumina Daya reports, she says she’s now afraid for her family and others, now that the Taliban has taken over the country.

Afghan refugees arrive at Philadelphia International Airport. Credit: The City of Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA - A 9-month-old Afghan baby on a flight of evacuees died after landing at the Philadelphia International Airport, according to authorities. "We send our deepest condolences to the family and loved ones of the decedent," a city spokesperson said in a statement to FOX 29.No word on how the baby died.

MISSION, Kan. - The COVID-19 surge is stretching oxygen supplies and sending hospitals scrambling for more ventilators, even as there are signs of hope that the spread of the virus is slowing down in pockets of the U.S.In Tulsa, Oklahoma, a hospital recently called 911 after coming within just a few hours of running out of oxygen because they needed an emergency transfer for a patient on high-flow oxygen. The hospital got a shipment later that day, but the experience was a warning to other hospitals, said Dr.

Several locations have been left off the list of those which will be required to participate in Ontario’s new vaccination program, including some which were targeted the hardest during lockdowns. Matthew Bingley reports.

PHILADELPHIA - Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf on Wednesday said nearly 50 of the state's Air National Guard service members have been activated to support Afghan ally refuge efforts around the country, including at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. "Pennsylvania will do whatever it takes to provide the resources and the open arms for the Afghan people to feel safe and welcomed," Gov.

CINNAMINSON, N.J. - Refugees from Afghanistan are still arriving at Philadelphia International Airport, with more than a half dozen flights Tuesday.Among those arriving in the U.S., people who helped the U.S. government during the war.

COVID-19.No one thought Davy Macias, a 37-year-old nurse, would be fighting for her life due to the virus.Davy Macias. (Family provided photo) "You don't want to see this, you don't," said Davy's brother Vong Serey.

Ontario will extend a temporary sick leave program for workers until the end of this year.Labour Minister Monte McNaughton announced Tuesday that the pandemic program set to expire on Sept. 25 would be extended to Dec.

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden addressed the nation on Tuesday following the departure of the last remaining troops from the Kabul airport, marking the United States’ complete withdrawal from Afghanistan and ending America’s longest war. Biden is under heavy criticism, particularly from Republicans, for his handling of the final evacuation, which successfully airlifted thousands of people from Kabul airport but left more than 100 Americans behind.In his remarks from the White House about the U.S.