Orr enjoyed a long and distinguished career in business, government and academia, with positions at the Asian Development Bank, Boeing Japan and others organizations.
By Hans-Edzard Busemann and Christian Kraemer BERLIN (Reuters) -Images of throngs trying to flee Kabul are shameful for Western nations, Germany s 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 government in Kabul collapsed https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/evacuation-flights-resume-kabul-airport-biden-defends-us-withdrawal-2021-08-17 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, lawyers 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. All the mo
By Laura Gottesdiener and Ricardo Arduengo LES CAYES, Haiti (Reuters) -Survivors of the earthquake that killed at least 1,941 people in Haiti clamored for food, shelter and medical care on Tuesday as search and rescue efforts resumed after a tropical storm lashed the Caribbean nation with rain, causing dangerous flooding. Quake damage to several major hospitals hampered humanitarian efforts, and doctors in makeshift tents outside battled to save the lives of the many injured, including young children and the elderly. But they could not help them all. There weren t enough doctors and now she s dead, said Lanette Nuel, sitting listlessly next to her daughter s body outside the main hospital of Les Cayes, one of the towns worst hit by both the tremor and the storm s heavy rains and winds. The 26-year-old deceased woman, herself a mother of two, had been crushed by debris during the magnitude 7.2 quake. Now she lay under a white sheet on the floor. We came in yesterday afternoon, she died
TASHKENT (Reuters) - Uzbekistan has detained 84 Afghan military servicemen who crossed the border on Saturday, the Tashkent government said on Sunday, adding that another group of soldiers had amassed near a border checkpoint on the Afghan side. Afghan servicemen crossed the border into Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in a similar way last month when they retreated from the Taliban insurgents offensive - which has accelerated in recent days leaving little but the capital Kabul https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/us-troops-arrive-afghan-capital-assist-evacuations-2021-08-14 in the Afghan government s hands. On Sunday, insurgents took the key eastern city of Jalalabad without a fight. Uzbekistan s foreign ministry said in a statement that the first group of 84 Afghan soldiers made no attempts to resist when Uzbek border guards detained them but instead sought medical help. The Tashkent government is also providing humanitarian aid to a group of Afghan soldiers who have amassed on the A
By Andre Paultre and Kate Chappell PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - When Lydie Jean-Baptiste saw her neighbors running from their homes on Saturday and felt the ground begin to shake beneath her feet, the 62-year-old Haitian was flooded by terrifying memories of the earthquake a decade ago that devastated her hometown. For many in the poor Caribbean nation, Saturday s major quake - which killed more than 300 people and left hundreds injured - revived the trauma of the Jan. 12, 2010 temblor from which the country was still reeling. The neighbors, I saw them running and running. I said ‘What’s wrong?’ They said ‘Earthquake!’ and I rushed to the front door, Jean-Baptiste said. All of a sudden, I had all those images of January 12 coming to my mind and I felt really, really scared. Her neighborhood of Delmas, in the southern outskirts of Port-au-Prince, was tossed by Saturday s quake, whose epicenter was some 150 km (90 miles) to the west of the capital. But in 2010, the tremor struck