Posts Tagged ‘rescue’

U.S. Special Operations Veterans Conduct Mission to Rescue Afghan Allies: ‘We Did What We Should Do’

***Warning — Graphic Content*** A volunteer group of American veterans of the Afghan war performed a final mission Wednesday called the “Pineapple Express” to help hundreds of Afghan elite forces and their family members to safety. ABC News reported Friday: Moving after nightfall in near-pitch black darkness and extremely dangerous conditions, the group said it […]

Americans Trapped By Taliban With No Rescue Plan Happy To Hear They Are Not Stranded

Americans Trapped By Taliban With No Rescue Plan Happy To Hear They Are Not Stranded KABUL—Americans stuck in Afghanistan with no way to get to the airport or sneak past the Taliban are relieved after White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki confirmed that they’re not actually stranded.  “It’s irresponsible to say these Americans are stranded,” said […]

Furor Erupts After Australian Officials Kill Rescue Dogs Over COVID-19 Fears

Australian district officials have set off a storm of controversy after ordering the killing of several impounded rescue dogs because of COVID-19 transmission fears, triggering a government investigation. The rural Bourke Shire Council in New South Wales ordered the dogs shot last week to prevent volunteers at an animal shelter from traveling to the pound to collect […]

Democrats Furious After Glenn Beck Raises Over $20M To Rescue Christians Trapped in Afghanistan

Conservative radio host Glenn Beck has triggered Democrats after raising a whopping $20 million to help rescue Christians trapped in Afghanistan. Beck’s Nazarene Fund seeks to ensure that thousands of Christians will be safely evacuated from the country before they are killed by Biden’s newly-empowered Taliban terrorist regime. The fund aims to extract over 5,000 people currently […]

Sources: British And US Troops At Odds In Afghanistan As UK Engages Rescue Missions

Reports have surfaced that British and American forces are unhappy with each other at Kabul airport, as UK Military commanders are overseeing rescue missions into the city itself, while US commanders are sitting tight, leaving US nationals to fend for themselves. Thousands of Americans trapped in the city were again advised by the US embassy […]

Von der Leyen must act now to rescue Afghans working with EU missions | View

The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan marks a historic failure of the West, NATO, the US and Europe. The reasons for this failure require an honest and thorough analysis. However, it is now of first and foremost importance that this failure puts a responsibility on all allies involved in the missions in Afghanistan. A responsibility for […]

‘Game Over’: Westerners Rush To Leave Kabul, Rescue Afghans

The chop of U.S. military helicopters whisking American diplomats to Kabul’s airport on Sunday punctuated a frantic rush by thousands of other foreigners and Afghans to flee to safety as well, as a stunningly swift Taliban takeover reached Afghanistan’s capital. U.S. reports of gunfire at the airport threatened to shut down one of the last avenues […]

Race to rescue survivors as death toll from Germany-Belgium floods reaches 170

Rescue workers are racing to find the hundreds of people still missing in floods that have caused devastation in western Germany and Belgium, as the death toll from the disaster reached 170. Some 143 people have died in Germany after burst rivers and flash floods earlier this week caused homes to collapse and ripped up roads […]

Race to rescue 14 workers trapped inside a flooded tunnel in China

Efforts are underway to rescue over a dozen workers in southern China who were trapped inside an under-construction tunnel that sprung a leak and subsequently flooded, two days after the mishap occurred. An evacuation had begun on Wednesday after workers noticed the tunnel had sprung a leak. The tunnel collapsed in the early hours of […]

Rescue efforts paused in Florida over concerns remaining building could fall

Rescue efforts at the condominium that partially collapsed in Florida were paused on Thursday out of concern about the stability of the remaining building, officials said. Crews had seen expansions in cracks they were monitoring, including movement in a large column hanging from the structure “that could fall and cause damage to support columns” in […]

IRS to the rescue? Tax audits eyed for infrastructure cash

Republicans say they won’t raise taxes on corporations. Democrats say they won’t raise taxes on people making less than $400,000 a year. So who is going to pay for the big public works boost that lawmakers and President Joe Biden say is necessary for the country? Enter the IRS Biden is proposing that Congress build […]

Celebrating the 76th anniversary of ‘Liberation and Rescue Day’

“Liberation and Rescue Day” of European Jews from the Nazis, held on 26 Iyar to mark the Nazi surrender and rescue of the refugees – commemorating the saints who sacrificed their lives in the war against the Nazis – was celebrated on Friday night under the auspices of the European Rabbinical Conference. Events were held […]

Eight-Year-Old Raises over $1,300 for Children’s Hospital and Animal Rescue

Eight-Year-Old Raises over $1,300 for Children’s Hospital and Animal Rescue Facebook/The Home Stretch Dog Haven, Inc.Amy Furr17 Apr 20219 2:09 A girl who was stuck inside her Locke, New York, home, when her dad tested positive for the coronavirus in January, used the time wisely.Eight-year-old Kendall Manuel kept herself busy thanks to a teacher who […]

Marines, Seals Head Rescue of Millions of Tortured Children, While Trump Implodes Fiat Dollar for a Global Currency Reset

Before It’s News.com Judy Byington | April 22 2021 US Special Ops Military forces numbering over 10,000 began training in July 2018 for the rescue of children from the Illuminate’s DUMBS – deep underground military bases – an extensive tunnel system that ran beneath every major US city as well as every major capitol throughout […]

Rescue underway to free 21 miners trapped in China – watch

Twenty-one miners are trapped in a flooded coalmine in northwest China‘s Xinjiang region, Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported on Sunday, citing a local emergency department. A section of the mine filled with water, leading to power outages just after 6 p.m. (1000 GMT) on Saturday when 29 miners were working at the site in […]

3 Israeli nanosatellites blast into space to test new method for rescue beacons

A Soyuz rocket blasted off Monday from Kazakhstan carrying a payload that included three Israeli nanosatellites that will test an alternative way of providing emergency location services for those in need of rescue. The launch had been delayed for two days due to bad weather but eventually succeeded in sending 38 small satellites from 18 […]

Coronavirus live: 18,000 Palestinians working in Israel vaccinated so far, rescue services say

News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World. © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved Source Views: 0

Thai Navy Conducts Purrfect Rescue Of Cats Trapped On Sinking Ship

BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai navy sailors braved choppy waters to launch a dramatic rescue this week after discovering four cats had been abandoned on a sinking ship that caught fire off a paradise island. After the crew had been taken to safety on Tuesday, the navy was sent to the site of the capsized vessel […]

Police and army launch bid to rescue 317 girls kidnapped from their school in Nigeria

Authorities in Nigeria are scrambling to rescue 317 girls abducted from a boarding school by gunmen in northern Nigeria on Friday, police said, the latest in a series of mass kidnappings of students. Police and the military have begun joint operations to rescue the girls after the attack at the Government Girls Junior Secondary School […]

Danger, discord and dilemma: A diary of life aboard a migrant rescue ship in the Mediterranean Sea

“In those oil rigs, the hell of Libya begins,” said Marc Reig, the captain of Open Arms, as he looked out on the horizon to glimpse four monstrous structures; structures that sit some 80 nautical miles from the coast of Tripoli. The image itself is terrifying: two pairs of metal skeletons protrude from the sea […]

Powered by WordPress | Designed by: Premium WordPress Themes | Thanks to Themes Gallery, Bromoney and Wordpress Themes