US military commanders are anticipating that a formal order will be given by President Donald Trump as soon as this week to begin a further withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan and Iraq before Trump leaves office on January 20, according to two US officials familiar. The Pentagon has issued a notice to commanders known as a "warning order" to begin planning to drawdown the number of troops in Afghanistan to 2,500 troops and 2,500 in Iraq by Jan 15, the officials said. Currently there are approximately 4,500 US troops in Afghanistan and 3,000 troops in Iraq. The Pentagon and White House did not immediately respond to CNN's request for comment. Sweeping changes at the Pentagon last week have put Trump loyalists in place and knowledgeable sources told CNN's Jake Tapper last week that the White House-directed purge at the Defense Department may have been motivated by the fact that former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and his team were pushing back on a premature withdrawal from Afghanistan that would be carried out before the required conditions on the ground were met. Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller sent a seemingly contradictory message to the force on Friday saying the US must continue its battle against al Qaeda and the terrorist forces behind 9/11 while also saying it was time to bring troops home. "This war isn't over," Miller wrote in his message. "We are on the verge of defeating al Qaida and it's associates, but we must avoid our past strategic error of failing to see the fight through to the finish. Indeed, this fight has been long, our sacrifices have been enormous, and many are weary of war -- I'm one of them -- but this is the critical phase in which we transition our efforts from a leadership to supporting role," he wrote in reference to the current US role of supporting counterterrorism campaigns such as the one in Afghanistan. "All wars must end. Ending wars requires compromise and partnership. We met the challenge; we gave it our all. Now, it's time to come home," Miller added.

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Two airports in Ethiopia's Amhara state which neighbors Tigray -- where federal troops are fighting local forces -- were targeted by rocket fire late on Friday, the government said, as an 11-day conflict widened. The airport in Gondar in Amhara state, which neighbors Tigray, was hit on Friday, while another rocket aimed at the Bahir Dar airport missed the target, the government said. The ruling Tigray party, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), said the Tigray Defence Forces conducted missile strikes in military bases in Bahir Dar and Gondar in retaliation for air strikes conducted by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's forces in various parts of the state. "As long as the attacks on the people of Tigray do not stop, the attacks will intensify," Getachew Reda, a spokesperson for the TPLF, said in a statement on the Facebook page of the Tigray state's communications office. Abiy sent the national defense force on an offensive against local troops in Tigray last week, after accusing them of attacking federal troops. Hundreds of people have been killed. The prime minister has said government warplanes were bombing military targets in Tigray, including arms depots and equipment controlled by the Tigrayan forces. The government says its military operations are aimed at restoring the rule of law in the mountainous state of 5 million people. Members of Amhara region militias ride on their truck as they head to face the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), in Sanja, Amhara region near a border with Tigray, Ethiopia, November 9. One of the rockets hit the airport in Gondar and partially damaged it, said Awoke Worku, spokesperson for Gondar central zone, while a second missile fired simultaneously landed just outside of the airport at Bahir Dar. "The TPLF junta is utilising the last of the weaponry within its arsenals," the Ethiopian government's emergency task force wrote on Twitter. The Amhara regional state's forces have been fighting alongside their federal counterparts against Tigray's fighters. Yohannes Ayele, a resident of Gondar, said he heard a loud explosion in the Azezo neighborhood of the city at 10:30 p.m. local time. Another resident of the area said the rocket had damaged the airport terminal building. The area was sealed off and firefighting vehicles were parked outside, the resident added. An Ethiopian Airlines worker who did not wish to be identified said flights to both Gondar and Bahir Dar airports had been canceled after the attacks. The United Nations, the African Union and others are concerned that the fighting could spread to other parts of Ethiopia, Africa's second most populous country, and destabilize the wider Horn of Africa region. More than 14,500 people have fled into neighboring Sudan, with the speed of new arrivals "overwhelming the current capacity to provide aid", the U.N. refugee agency said on Friday. Ethiopia's Human Rights Commission, appointed by the government but independent, said it was sending a team of investigators to the town of Mai Kadra in Tigray, where Amnesty International this week reported what it said was evidence of mass killings. Amnesty International said on Thursday scores and possibly hundreds of civilians were stabbed and hacked to death in the region on Nov. 9, citing witnesses. It said it had not been able to independently confirm who was responsible, but said the witnesses had blamed fighters loyal to Tigray's local leaders The Tigray state government denied involvement in the reported killings. "TPLF absolutely refutes allegations the TPLF members and the Tigray special police force were involved in this most tragic event," it said in a statement. The rights commission said in a statement it would investigate all allegations of human rights violations in the conflict.

Course my vote is for DH1 nice song, better than DH2

Hello, What about rules of battles; The song should be max 7 mins , any song above 7 mins will be cancelled . Coz DH1 It has a duration of 10 minutes.

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1. IN CHILE WE HAVE THE DRIEST DESERT ON THE PLANET. Related image Far to the north of Chile, 886.2 miles from Santiago is the famous Atacama Desert, reputed to be the “driest place in the world” that covers a 600-mile stretch of the Pacific coast, west of the Andes. The desert is estimated to occupy 41,000 square miles or 49,000, if the land at the foothills of the Andes is included. In a region 60 miles south of Antofagasta, where the desert averages 10,000 feet high, the earth has been compared to that of the planet Mars, and for its unique appearance, various scenes of the landscape of Mars have been filmed. there, one of the best known television series Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets. The region is used in a special way by NASA to test many instruments that will be used in future expeditions to Mars. 2. IN OUR CULTURAL STOCK, WE HAVE “THE MOST PRECISE WORD IN THE WORLD”. She is Mamihlapinatapai and is a native of the Yaganes, an indigenous people of Tierra del Fuego. It means "a look between two people, each of whom waits for the other to begin an action that both want but that neither is encouraged to initiate." 3. THE OLDEST MUMMIES IN THE WORLD WERE FOUND IN THE NORTH OF CHILE. The Chinchorros mummies were discovered approximately 100 years ago in the arid Atacama Desert. According to studies, the bodies were mummified more than 7,000 years ago. Unfortunately, due to the increased humidity in northern Chile, certain bacteria invaded the remains of the ancient mummies and degraded the tissue, giving it a blackish appearance. 4. THE LONGEST FOOTBALL GAME IN THE WORLD WAS PLAYED IN CHILE. The largest commune in Santiago de Chile is La Florida. This is where the longest soccer game in the history of the foot ball took place, with a duration of 120 hours !! At that meeting a new Guinness record was set, of course: 2,357 people passed through the court and the final result was 505-504. 5. THE MOON WAS INSCRIBED BY A CHILEAN. The lawyer, painter and poet Jenaro Gajardo Vera was passionate about investigating what was happening beyond planet Earth. Such was his concern that he founded the Interplanetary Telescopic Society. And one fine day, on September 25, 1954 in the Maule region, Don Jenaro declared himself the owner of the Moon before a notary public. It is said that the audacious man registered the natural satellite of the Earth because it was a requirement of membership to the Social Club of Talca to have a property. 6. WE HAVE THE EIGHTH WONDER OF THE WORLD. In the Magallanes region is the Torres del Paine National Park, Chile's main tourist destination. Its beautiful places were chosen the Eighth Wonder of the World in 2013, among 300 places in 50 countries. 7. CHILE IS THE MOST EXTENSIVE AND NARROW COUNTRY ON THE LAND. From North to South, Chile has a distance of 4,300 kilometers. In the extreme north is the tripartite border with Bolivia and Peru, and in the extreme south, the Islote Águila, part of the Diego Ramírez Islands in the cold waters of the Drake Pass. 8. THE LONGEST TELEVISION SHOW IN THE WORLD IS CHILEAN Guess which one? It is Sabado Gigante, which was broadcast for more than 5 decades without interruption. They were 53 years, 1 month and 11 days long. 9. THERE ARE NO POISONOUS SNAKES IN THE NATIONAL TERRITORY. More than 3,000 species are known and none are poisonous. 10. ASTRONOMIC POWER. Chile is home to some of the most important scientific astronomical observatories in the world. These are located in the north of our country, from the Coquimbo Region to the Atacama Region, generally towards the interior of the mountain range. What many do not know is that these observatories can be visited by the general public, and they make different tours of their facilities.

It has a month, a little less than that since it was after the rejection of my application, and I do not think it is be well seen since if the corruption in the staff is accepted we will not continue to grow and we will stagnate. I don't think you have to give much explanation, since the photo speaks for itself

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It's not the world's highest mountain, nor is it the hardest one to climb, presumably. Famed climber Reinhold Messner never bothered with this obscure peak and it won't be landing a NatGeo special or an "Into Thin Air" sequel anytime soon. So why exactly are we nominating Muchu Chhish - a 7,453-meter lump of glacier-flanked rock and ice tucked in a remote valley of northern Pakistan's Karakoram Range (home to bigger, badder, better-known, 8,000-meter A-listers like K2, Broad Peak and Gasherbrum I & II) - as the latest holy grail of mountaintops? Because among all the numberless and largely nameless mountains that have yet to see a human foot, flag or breathless YouTube post on their standoffish summits, Muchu Chhish is, for all wild and crazy intents and purposes, the highest unclimbed hill on Earth. (See above image) Only one mountain gets that spotlight at a time, however bright or (in this case) rather faint. Everest had its lengthy tenure until 1953, when the Himalayan giant and highest point on Earth was first successfully reached. The world's second highest summit, K2, was checked off a year later in 1954. Number three, Kanchenjunga, was scaled in 1955. Next up, Mt. Lhotse, the world's fourth highest peak, was surmounted in 1956. And so on. Now it's Muchu Chhish's turn. Mighty number 61, or thereabouts. Mountain height rankings start to get hazy around this point. But the natural human ambition to notch that next big first ascent remains as clear and compelling as ever. "There's a sort of authorship to any first ascent - like a writer or a painter creating something from scratch," says American Alpine Institute executive director Jason Martin, who has logged his share of rock climbing firsts in the American West - and hadn 't heard of Muchu Chhish until now. "I think the biggest and most interesting thing when it comes to first ascents on giant, remote mountains like this one where you're basically an astronaut is just that - reaching this otherworldly spot where nobody else has been. Another element, of course , is the huge added challenge of it because there's virtually no information on how to do it. " The world's highest unclimbed mountain ** Hiding in the Western Karakoram on the Batura Wall - a massive ridge of 7,000-meter peaks looming above one of the world's largest non-polar glaciers - Muchu Chhish has foiled all attempts by sporadic expeditions to reach its elusive crest over the last few decades. The barely visited peak (also known as Batura V) has held its own double-asterisked distinction as the highest unclimbed mountain for several years now. Why the two asterisks in this case? * Another Asian peak, 7,570-meter Gangkhar Puensum, remains the actual highest unclimbed mountain on Earth at present, but its location in Bhutan (where mountaineering has been prohibited since 2003) means this off-limits summit is respectfully withdrawn from worldly contention. ** There's a debatable point that Muchu Chhish is technically a secondary peak (or "subpeak"). According to National Geographic, most geologists define a mountain as an independent landform exceeding 300 meters (about 1,000 feet) above its surrounding area. Muchu Chhish is shy of that prominence, but venerated among very legit Karakoram climbing circles as a bona fide mountain. All hair-splitting aside, who would really want to deny sufficiently grand-ish Muchu Chhish its provisional status as the highest, permissible unclimbed peak of one sort or another on earth? Certainly not any outlier alpinist braving its unsolved slopes during a narrow climbing window in late summer. "There's still a lot of great unclimbed peaks out there - more than people think - but unless you start playing with definitions Muchu Chhish is really the highest one left," says alpinist Phil de-Beger, who was part of a three- person UK expedition to Muchu Chhish in August 2014 - already six years ago, but still one of the most recent and few serious attempts on this mountain. "You've got some of the biggest mountains in the world in the Karakoram, and it's always a real adventure out there," adds de-Beger, who has logged other first ascents in that area with fellow climbing partners Tim Oates and expedition leader Peter Thompson. "I get asked about Muchu Chhish all the time by climbers who want that 'first ascent tick' on the highest permissible unclimbed peak. But that's not nearly as interesting as the mountain itself if you ask me." What makes climbing Muchu Chhish more interesting than bragging rights? "It's the unknown," de-Beger tells CNN Travel. "On an unclimbed peak in the Karakoram that hasn't been mapped out like those overpo[CENSORED]ted prize peaks in the Himalayas, it's essentially still very exploratory. That's what has really fueled us to go to that area in general, and what keeps us going. " Until it's time to turn around. "About 80% of the deal with these climbs is being lucky" During the 2014 expedition, the three climbers called it quits around the 6,000-meter mark, well below the summit, upon hitting a long, steep snow ridge that had unexpectedly transformed into a bullet-hard sheet of ice. "According to what we'd heard from previous expeditions, which had climbed that same ridge (to reach a neighboring peak) in years past, we were hoping to do basic kick steps and it would just be a long slog," recounts- Beger. "But by the time we got there it had essentially become a sustained ice climb. Not super-hard on its own, but also not something we were really prepared for at that altitude and for that duration without being able to put up a camp. " The surprise tilted ice rink, likely caused by climate change over the years, was presaged by rough, unexpected conditions on the peak right from the start. After a dramatic commute to the secluded mountain along the precipitous Karakoram Highway and a multi-day trek from the Hunza Valley featuring rowdy yak herds and a glacial labyrinth riddled with rocky crevasses en route to base camp, the three mountaineers had timed their climb for optimally dry conditions.