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Amid US exit, chaos abounds in Afghanistan
Neutralising Osama was a moral victory for the US but little else seems to have been achieved. It is making the same mistake it did in Iraq a premature conflict termination
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It’s a little late in the day for the US to make amends. (Express Illustrations | Amit Bandre)
The two-decade war in Afghanistan will be analysed from multiple angles in the years to come and mostly will be classified as a huge strategic failure on the part of the US and its allies. The inability of a superpower to turn things around and erase Afghanistan’s reputed title ‘Graveyard of Empires’ will probably be seen as a failure of leadership, strategy and international cooperation to bring peace to a stricken land. The US defeat in Vietnam, classified by Richard Nixon as a campaign where strategic objectives were met, and the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan were both events of the Cold War. The adversaries then were clearly ran
Cientos de muertos en Canadá por la ola de calor elperiodico.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from elperiodico.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Una ola de calor abrasa Canadá y provoca dos centenares de muertes
Los termómetros llegan a rozar los 50 grados, mientras se suceden los decesos repentinos y los incendios arrasan zonas boscosas
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Canadá había sido sometida a tal prueba de fuego como la que ahora provoca muertes súbitas en las calles o los hogares y revienta el asfalto de las carreteras. La ola de calor que azota Norteamérica se ha convertido en un cementerio. Las autoridades del país notificaron ayer la muerte de al menos 233 personas en cuatro días como consecuencia de unas temperaturas que han alcanzado los 49,6 grados centígrados en la provincia de Columbia Británica.