The report was made public in response to House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul’s April 25 request that the State Department to declassify its After-Action Review on Afghanistan within 60 days.

Drones are patrolling Ballina beaches for sharks every day of the current school vacation period.Wilkinson had surfed in a heat before the shark bit Fannings board.

The shark might have been deterred from attacking Wilkinson by the unfamiliar touch of a leg rope on its snout or the overhead noise of the drone.Wilkinson had competed at the J-Bay Open in South Africa when fellow Australian surfer Mick Fanning was attacked by a large great white shark.A great white shark circled to within inches of pro surfer Matt Wilkinsons board before darting away in a chilling encounter captured by a drone that is part of an Australian shark warning system.

Ballina is part of the New South Wales state coast north of Sydney that has become notorious for shark attacks in recent years.Im not entirely sure why the shark decided to turn away at the last minute.

The 32-year-old surfer from Sydney said he never saw the shark while he was paddling his board but heard a fin or tail break the waters surface during the recreational surf on Wednesday off the tourist town of Ballina.

in this photo supplied by Surf Life Saving NSW.evacuate and secure sensitive materials at the embassy.

and “seemed to rely on received assurances that the [Afghan] government and its security forces would concentrate on the defense of Kabul and believed that they could hold the Taliban at bay for some time.” they were forced to condense its timetable “from three days to less than 24 hours” because they were not expecting the Taliban to reach the embassys front door so soon.

“The decisions of both President Trump and President Biden to end the U.military mission in Afghanistan had serious consequences for the viability of the Afghan government and its security.