Air base holding evacuees filled to capacity as more Afghans try to escape the Taliban
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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.
Evacuees who were lucky enough to get out of Afghanistan were flown to Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany on Friday. Those Afghan evacuees can stay at Ramstein for several weeks, according to U.S. military officials. Other evacuees were flown 1,200 miles to Doha, Qatar on the Persian Gulf. But with so many evacuees flying to Doha over the past few days, space at Doha is starting to become limited. U.S. officials say there's simply no more room here to process them. Al Udeid Air Base hit capacity on Friday, forcing the U.S. to suspend flights for hours at Kabul airport until it could find other countries, like Germany, to agree to transit evacuees through their territories to safety.Five people boarded OceanGate's Titan submersible last summer to dive down to see the wreckage of the Titanic, but less than two hours later, the vessel imploded, killing all on board. Now, a billionaire from Ohio wants to make his own attempt – an idea he had just days after the Titan met its fatal end.
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