Afghanistan Earthquake Kills 1,000 People and Injures at Least 1,500 Others Near Pakistan

A major earthquake has hit Afghanistan, killing 1,000 people and wounding at least 1,500, authorities have announced. On Wednesday, the 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck southeast of Khost, the capital city of the country’s Khost Province, near its shared border with neighboring Pakistan. TheUnited States Geological Surveyreports the quake had a depth of six miles. Bakhtar News Agency/AFP via Getty Images The United Nations secretary general’s deputy special representative for Afghanistan, Dr.

Afghanistan Veteran Brad Snyder Becomes First U.S. Man to Win Gold in Paralympic or Olympic Triathlon

Photo: OIS/Joe Toth/Shutterstock Three-time ParalympianBrad Snyderwon his sixth gold medal on Saturday in the men’s para triathlon, becoming the first U.S. athlete to bring home a gold medal in the men’s triathlon event at the Olympics or Paralympics. “It’s a big moment, obviously, because you spend so much time visualizing and hoping and preparing for it,” Snyder toldNBC Sportsof his para triathlon victory. “Just like in Rio and just like in London, there’s no way you can possibly imagine how good it’s going to feel – and it was really a good feeling.

Afghanistan's Last Jewish Man Reportedly Refuses to Leave, So Would-Be Rescuers Help Dozens Escape Instead

Photo: Jerome Starkey/Getty Efforts initially put toward evacuating the mandescribed asthe “last Jew in Afghanistan” have instead helped dozens escape from the country’s capital following the Taliban takeover after the man refused to leave, according to a report. An attempt to extract Zebulon Simantov had been underway up until Rabbi Moshe Margaretten — president of theTzedek Association, a nonprofit dedicated to humanitarian cases that has been helping rescue high-risk individuals out of Afghanistan — got word that the 62-year-old did not want to flee, theJewish Telegraphic Agencyreported earlier this month.

Afghans Describe Fear and Looming Future After Taliban Takeover: 'We Thought We Had More Time,' Dad-of-3 Says

Photo: Haroon Sabawoon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Emotional sketches oflife on the ground right now in Afghanistanunderline some of the most pressing questions as the U.S.continues to evacuate peopleamid the Taliban takeover: Who will be able to leave? What comes next for those who won’t get the chance? And what will life be like under modern Taliban rule? The military has since secured the capital’s airport with thousands of additional troops temporarily deployed to Kabul, the U.

Afraid Daughter, 3, Wouldn't Survive Chemo, Her Parents Turn to Medical Marijuana

Photo: Chloe Aftel It was July 2014 and Jaclyn von Harz and her husband, Jim, knew their 3-year-old daughter Cecilia —whose right lung was filled with cancerous tumors — didn’t have much time or fight left in her tiny body. “She was just so emaciated,” Jim tells PEOPLE in a story in this week’s magazine. “She’d lost all her hair, lost all her weight. There just wasn’t much of her left.