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Iranian personnel have been on the ground in Russian-occupied Crimea helping Moscow's forces conduct attacks on Ukraine with Iran-made drones, the US State Department says. "We assess that Iranian military personnel were on the ground in Crimea and assisted Russia in these operations," State Department spokesperson Ned Price tells reporters at a briefing. SOUNDBITE
About 70 Italian diplomats and Afghans reach Rome after being evacuated from Kabul following the fall of the capital to the Taliban. The KC-767 military transport plane touched down at Rome's Fiumicino international airport at about 1230 GMT carrying some 50 diplomats and 20 Afghans who had worked with Italian forces in Afghanistan, says the foreign ministry. IMAGES
Kabul, Jul 4 (EFE / EPA).- (Camera: Hedayat Amid) The United States this weekend left Bagram Air Base, its main military installation in Afghanistan, in the hands of Afghan forces, a crucial step in the final phase of the withdrawal of international forces, as violence grows in the country.FOOTAGE OF BAGRAM AIRBASE IN KABUL. SOUNDBITES OF AHMAD RASHAD, STUDENT.TRANSLATIONS: “I am Ahmad Rashid, an eleventh-grade student at the school, for the past eight years we have been working to sell old American products and materials, which are coming out of the Bagram base. Our sales decreased significantly since the US forces began to withdraw. In the past, we had between 60,000 and 70,000 Afs sales per day, but now even we can't sell things worth 500 Afs per day ... In the last few months, (US forces) were destroying materials and goods before sending them out of the base.Now we also have a threat from the Taliban in the area, the Taliban have almost already infiltrated the nearby villages and the security is not good in the area.We don't know what to do after this, should we leave the country or not? Because the government's situation is not good either.
Ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Laos this week, the country is still struggling to clear unexploded bombs dropped by U.S. warplanes during the Vietnam War.
Having already said there would be no apology, U.S. President Barack Obama says he hopes to reflect on the suffering of war during his historic visit to Hiroshima. He made the statement during a joint news conference Wednesday, with Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Villagers in north Afghanistan are burying the more than 180 people killed in some of the region's worst avalanches in three decades. Mana Rabiee reports.
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