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United States military announced on Tuesday that thousands of American troops are coming home from Afghanistan and Iraq.

The American military has been involved in Afghanistan since 2001, when it led an international force to knock the ruling Taliban group out of power.

The Taliban were sheltering Al Qaeda terrorists who were responsible for the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.

The U.

S military has been involved in Iraq since 2003, when it led an international force to knock Iraqi President Saddam Hussein out of power.

The American government accused him of sheltering terrorists as well, in addition to building illegal weapons of mass destruction.

Though American forces did not find those weapons after the conflict began, The numbers of US servicemen and women in Iraq and Afghanistan have fluctuated over the years.

Currently, there are about 4500 American troops in Afghanistan and 3000 in Iraq.

The Trump administration plans to withdraw around 2000 from Afghanistan and 500 from Iraq in the weeks ahead, leaving about 2500 forces in each country.

A senior U.

S defense official says the reduction in forces is consistent with President Trump's promise to bring troops home from the two nations, and the acting US secretary of defense says America is on the verge of defeating the Al Qaeda terrorist group.

But critics of the withdrawal, including some Republican lawmakers, say it's not the right time to reduce US troop numbers in these countries and that the decision would come as good news to terrorist groups.

The withdrawal of many American troops is expected to be completed by January 15th of next year.

When you think about it, the poet Dylan Thomas is kind of relevant.

Our next story, Rage Rage Against the Dying of the Light could serve as a piece of advice from psychologists.

When it comes to warding off the Winter blues, Seasonal effective disorder can coincide with short winter days, and if that time of year gets you down, there are a few pieces of advice in a new paper published in the International Journal of Well Being one Get Outside.

A number of studies have shown that people who spend at least two hours per week in the great outdoors are healthier and happier to change your mindset.

Find things about winter you look forward to.

If you're stuck indoors, it might be a cup of hot chocolate.

While watching.

It's a wonderful life.

Activities you could positively associate with winter can reportedly improve your outlook.

Dr.

Sanjay Gupta has some more info and advice.

When it comes to seasonal effective disorder, at least 12 million Americans suffer from something known as seasonal effective disorder or S A D numbers probably even higher than that.

Longer nights, shorter days.

All of that leads to a chemical imbalance in the brain.

What happens is your serotonin levels air down and melatonin, which makes you sleepy.

That's up to make sense.

Symptoms can be mild or severe.

You could get fatigue, lack of energy, oversleeping, difficulty concentrating and also cravings for food that cause weight gain.

That probably sounds familiar as well.

Diet and exercise can always help also get outside as much as you can.

You can also get a specialty designed lightbox.

You just sit there and stare at it for a while each day, or at least put it on your desk.

The point is, you could get a boost of more natural light.

Worst case.

Some doctors may recommend antidepressants or psychotherapy to help you get through this.

Another tidbit.

Find things that bring you joy.

Open up the blinds in your house.

Play some of your favorite music and be with your family.

Laughter and togetherness are always great.

Therapy for the Winter Blues.

12th Trivia.

Which of these military leaders founded a famous city in Egypt?

William the Conqueror, Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great or Attila the hun?

Hmm?

It was in the year 332 BC that Alexandria, Egypt, was founded by Alexander the Great.

Oh, it was sometime around the year 500 BC, that dozens of coffins were buried around the Egyptian capital of Cairo, and they were recently unearthed in mint condition from a large burial ground.

Egyptian authorities say they're in such good shape because they belong to people who were quote a little bit rich.

At least one of them contained a mummy, which officials air X raying to try to find out the person's gender and age of the time of death.

The find of more than 100 ancient coffins also contained 40 statues and other artifacts.

They'll be sent to museums throughout Egypt.

Announcements of MAWR discoveries from this area are expected in the weeks ahead.

The Egyptian government hopes finds like this will attract more tourists to the country, where political instability, terrorism and now the coronavirus pandemic have hurt that industry.

The issue of overfishing is our next topic.

It's taking fish out of the oceans faster than they can replenish their numbers.

Naturally, environmentalists say this condemn Ege the entire marine ecosystem.

There's several reasons this happens with a growing global population, There's a growing demand for seafood, the commercial fishing industry is expanding and many people rely on it for their livelihood.

But environmentalists say their arm or commercial fishermen and women than the world needs some people fish illegally or don't report everything they catch.

And critics say governments contribute to overfishing by paying commercial fishermen to help with their businesses.

There are rules in place around the world that aim to prevent overfishing.

One main way this has done is by putting limits on what people can catch.

Some fishermen opposed this, saying regulations make their jobs harder and limits make it harder for them to earn a living.

But for those who support over fishing regulations, there's a new tool available that can help them keep track of their catch.

Every day, thousands of fishing trawlers take to our seas, releasing miles and miles of nets to catch fish.

But over the last few decades this led to overfishing, dramatically depleting the seas of vital fish stocks.

Now, smart technology offers hope to tackle overfishing and illegal catches.

We need to find a way to harvest the fish sustainably in the center of Ocean Laboratory in Trondheim, Norway, that cutting edge technology is being developed.

An indoor pool that simulates an ocean basin.

Laser scanners that analyzed fish stocks and three D visualization techniques that reproduce the seabed are being used to lead the fight against over fishing.

We want Thio first of all, make sure that we have a way of finding out how much fish this in the ocean, how much can we harvest within sustainable limits?

According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, 34.2% of the world's fish stocks were over fished in 2017 Cinta Foshan believes it's catch Scanner technology can address that its laser and a three D camera system on artificial intelligence to do the analysis.

If you have a fish like this plastic fish on, do you send it through the scanner, then it builds up a three D image and a cholera image at the same time.

This is used by artificial intelligence to estimate the weight on the species.

This then allows us to know exactly how much fish were fishing so that we can adjust the quotas appropriately.

Thes new smart devices will be tested by some of Europe's fishing industry.

If successful, the hope is for a widespread adoption.

It's really important to understand that some of these technologies can be very expensive to put on board fishing vessels.

So in order for the fishers to want to have them aboard, they need to see the benefit of this will be a better able to assess.

The stocks in general will be able to set regulations that are realistic on.

We'll be able Thio have a better understanding off how sustainable we really are.

This larger research project, known a smart fish H 2020 is being funded by the European Union in an effort to modernize the industry and eliminate overfishing.

What we want to see happen is that you chooses to install these technologies on board fishing vessels.

That is the main goal of this.

With the global fish demand expected to increase in the years to come, the adoption of smart tech could be crucial to safeguarding the oceans.

Fish stocks thief Four astronauts on the latest space mission have arrived at the International Space station, and there was a stowaway with them.

The force was too strong to leave Baby Yoda behind, even though he didn't buy a $55 million seat.

Is there a purpose for a plush doll on a trip that's not to a galaxy far, far away, possibly aboard the launch vehicle?

Ah, floating Yoda could show them this is the way to know when they've left the pull of gravity.

So he does kind of have a job, even if it's just Baba floating around in space until they Landau to back on Earth.

No one's gonna look at him and say Yoda man, but he's not flying on solo, and he won't cause any general grievances while he's up there.

So the astronauts seem pretty stoked to have him while they Skywalker around this winter.

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