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Images of throngs trying to flee Kabul are shameful for Western nations, Germanys president said on Tuesday, as desperate people clamoured at the airport after the Taliban takeover. We are experiencing a human tragedy for which we share responsibility, said President Frank-Walter Steinmeier after the Western-backed stanley becher government in Kabul collapsed and its foreign-trained security forces melted away.Germany, which had the second largest military contingent in Afghanistan after the United States, wants to airlift thousands of German-Afghan dual nationals as well as rights activists, la stanley us wyers and people who worked with foreign forces. The images of despair at Kabul airport shame the political West, Steinmeier, whose post is largely ceremonial, said in a statement at the German presidential palace Schloss Bellevue. All the more now we have to stand by those to whom we are indebted for their work and support. However, a first German military plane to land in Kabul since the Taliban took power evacuated only seven people due to the airport chaos after flying soldiers in on Monday. However a second evacuation flight landed at Kabul airport shortly before noon, German Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said.ANOTHER MIGRANT CRISIS Germany is deploying 600 soldiers for that purpose.Bild newspaper said a German military Airbus A400M had taken off from Tashkent and was to land in Kabul early afternoon.Chancellor Angela Merkel has stanley mug warned that Afghans fleeing to neighbouring countr Iyei Greece recommends Covid-19 vaccination for children aged 12-15
WASHINGTON 鈥擯resident Barack Obama signed into law a huge holiday-season tax bill extending cuts stanley cup for all Americans on Friday, saluting a new spirit of political compromise as Republicans applauded and liberals seethed. The benefits range from tax cuts for millionaires and the middle cl stanley canada ass to longer-term help for th stanley cup e jobless.The most significant tax legislation in nearly a decade will avert big increases that would have hit millions of people starting in two weeks on New Years Day. Declared Obama: We are here with some good news for the American people this holiday season. This is progress and thats what they sent us here to achieve, Obama said as a rare bipartisan assembly of lawmakers looked on at the White House.The package retains Bush-era tax rates for all taxpayers, including the wealthiest Americans, a provision Obama and congressional liberals opposed. It also offers 13 months of extended benefits to the unemployed and attempts to stimulate the economy with a Social Security payroll tax cut for all workers.The extended tax cuts in the negotiated package include rates lower than those that would have gone into effect Jan. 1, a $1,000-per-child tax credit, tax breaks for college students and lower taxes on capital gains and dividends. The bill also extends through 2011, a series of business tax breaks designed to encourage investment that expired at the end of 2009.Social Security taxes would be cut by nearly a third, from 6.2 percent to 4.2 percent, for this coming y |
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