Taliban thank world for aid, urge U.S. to show ‘heart’
The Hindu
The Taliban on Tuesday thanked the world for pledging hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency aid to Afghanistan, and urged the U.S. to show “heart” to the impoverished country.A donor conference
The Taliban on Tuesday thanked the world for pledging hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency aid to Afghanistan, and urged the U.S. to show “heart” to the impoverished country.
A donor conference in Geneva on Monday saw countries promise a total of $1.2 billion in aid for Afghanistan.
Amir Khan Muttaqi, the regime’s acting Foreign Minister, told a press conference the Taliban would spend donor money wisely and use it to alleviate poverty.
Former astronaut William Anders, who took iconic Earthrise photo, has died in Washington plane crash
William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo from space in 1968, was killed on June 7 when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state.