Desperation at both ends of the frantic Afghanistan evacuation route as U.S. facility in Doha reaches capacity
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Doha, Qatar — Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have been quashing scattered protests with gunfire, whips and sticks, while the group's leaders insist they will not harbor terrorists in the country again. At Kabul airport, people were seen handing young children over the perimeter wall to U.S. troops this week, desperate for their kids to avoid life under the Islamic extremists who've retaken control after 20 years, hot on the heels of the American withdrawal.
CBS News' Roxana Saberi reported that the mayhem outside the U.S.-controlled airport continued on Friday, with hundreds of desperate Afghans still gathering — despite Taliban warnings and violence — in hopes of escaping the militants' reign. Gunfire was heard again on Friday as Taliban gunmen tried to disperse crowds.For the first half-dozen years of her pro career, Daria Kasatkina was known as an ascending player, whose tennis was predicated on brains, not brawn, using her racket less as a high-powered weapon than a scalpel. She was known throughout tennis by her nickname, Dasha. She was not known for being political, or particularly outspoken.
Noumea — France's president held a flurry of meetings with local representatives in the restive Pacific territory of New Caledonia on Thursday, urging calm after deadly rioting, and vowing thousands of military reinforcements will stay in place to quell what he called an "unprecedented insurrection."