manager at serve on s international response team and has lead search and rescue missions across the world. he explained what the rescue effort would entail. thoughts go out to those affected and those rescuers who are digging out, trying to help. it is a technical rescue and from a firefighter background it is not like a house fire that is relatively fast in terms of rescue or even a car crash, which can be an hour or two at worst, but this is days and nights, slow methodical work, very technical, and. i know that the team there, the task force there are based out of miami dade, so as awful as it is, they have one of the world s heaviest and best trained teams literally local to this incident, which is a blessing. inaudible. having said that, it is slow going, you can tjust pile loads of people on top of this thing, there is after.
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What’s new? A Russian-brokered ceasefire between Armenia and Azerbaijan ended a six-week war in and around Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan regained most of the territory it lost to Armenian forces in the first war, which ended in 1994. Russian peacekeepers have deployed to Nagorno-Karabakh.
Why does it matter? Decades of failed negotiations after the first Nagorno-Karabakh war hardened positions on both sides, which culminated in 2020’s six weeks of bloodshed. Today, the ceasefire plan leaves many questions unanswered, including the crucial issue of Nagorno Karabakh’s status, but immediate efforts to force compromise on that risk backfiring.
What should be done? Rather than seek an elusive comprehensive agreement, parties and stakeholders should prioritise humanitarian needs and international support to rebuild infrastructure and forge cooperative ways forward, including through commerce. Of outside actors, Russia will play the lead role, but success is more likely if Eu
intensified again this afternoon. and with more snow expected tonight, the digging out has been nonstop. reporter: among the highest snowfall totals in the midwest, 23 inches in minnesota, 12 in michigan and 6 in wisconsin. the storm overturning semis from north dakota to connecticut. and in pennsylvania, one driver was killed when his suv spun out of control authorities urging drivers to be careful with more snow on the way. gabe gutierrez, nbc news, morristown, new jersey this is tom costello in a snow-covered cornfield in south dakota, the tragic end to a thanksgiving weekend hunting trip of 12 family members aboard, only 3 survived the ntsb now inspecting the remains of the single-engine pc-12 near the small town of chamberlain. sources say the plane had been sitting for more t takeoff around 12:35 saturday on an icy runway the plane went down just a mile from the airport in tblthen