Day: November 13, 2025
Kazakhstan has sent 18 tons of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan after a deadly earthquake near the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif earlier this month.
The aid from Kazakhstan includes medicine, medical instruments, bedding, tents and other essentials, and the Ministry of Health has also sent a team of medical workers to help affected communities in Afghanistan, the Kazakh government said on Thursday. It released photographs that show military personnel loading boxes of aid onto a military transport plane.
A 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit near Mazar-i-Sharif around 1.a.m. local time on November 3, killing more than two dozen people, injuring more than 1,000 and damaging the city’s centuries-old Blue Mosque. Mazar-i-Sharif is near the border with Uzbekistan, which exports electricity to Afghanistan. The earthquake temporarily knocked out that power supply.
Countries in Central Asia and elsewhere also responded with aid deliveries after a far more devastating earthquake in eastern Afghanistan on August 31. That disaster killed at least 2,200 people.
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- TSA officers who displayed “exemplary service” during the 43-day shutdown will receive $10,000 bonuses.
- Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced the bonus, but did not specify how many would get checks.
- The shutdown caused widespread travel chaos, including flight delays and swaths of cancellations.
Transportation Security Administration officers “who served with exemplary service” during the 43-day government shutdown will receive $10,000 bonus checks, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced on Thursday.
“And what that means is that we are going to not only continue their paychecks like they should have received all along, but also they’re going to get a bonus check for stepping up, taking on extra shifts, for showing up each and every day, for serving the American people and taking seriously the mission that the Department of Homeland Security takes seriously and that they take seriously every single day,” Noem said.
The shutdown, the longest in US history, caused widespread travel chaos, as air traffic controllers faced staffing shortages, and FAA flight reductions led to widespread cancellations.
It remains unclear when the checks will be deposited into the TSA officers’ accounts or what the eligibility criteria are to receive the bonus.
“This is not everybody here that works at this airport that will be getting checks,” Noem said. “We’re going to continue to evaluate every single employee that helps during the shutdown and stepped up and went above and beyond.”
Representatives for the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider seeking more details about the bonus payments.
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