Afghan Refugee Gives Birth on US Evacuation Plane

Medical support personnel from the 86th Medical Group help an Afghan mother and family off a US Air Force C-17 after she delivered a child aboard the aircraft upon landing at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, on Aug. 21. (-/AFP/Getty Images)
Medical support personnel from the 86th Medical Group help an Afghan mother and family off a US Air Force C-17 after she delivered a child aboard the aircraft upon landing at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, on Aug. 21. (-/AFP/Getty Images)
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Afghan Refugee Gives Birth on US Evacuation Plane

Medical support personnel from the 86th Medical Group help an Afghan mother and family off a US Air Force C-17 after she delivered a child aboard the aircraft upon landing at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, on Aug. 21. (-/AFP/Getty Images)
Medical support personnel from the 86th Medical Group help an Afghan mother and family off a US Air Force C-17 after she delivered a child aboard the aircraft upon landing at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, on Aug. 21. (-/AFP/Getty Images)

An Afghan woman gave birth on board a US evacuation plane on Saturday, moments after landing at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, the US Air Force said, Reuters reported.

The woman delivered a baby girl in the cargo bay of an Air Force C-17 aircraft after going into labor and experiencing complications during the flight, US Air Mobility Command said on Twitter.

"The aircraft commander decided to descend in altitude to increase air pressure in the aircraft, which helped stabilize and save the mother's life," the tweet said.

The woman was part of a group fleeing the Taliban in Afghanistan and was on the second stage of an evacuation flight that had taken off from a base in the Middle East.

The mother and baby were transported to a medical facility and were in good condition, the tweet said.



Kremlin Says Putin Open to Normalizing Ties with Finland if Helsinki Wants to Rebuild Ties

Finnish President Alexander Stubb meets with British Prime Minster Keir Starmer (not pictured) at Number 10 Downing Street in London, Britain, March 31, 2025. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/Pool
Finnish President Alexander Stubb meets with British Prime Minster Keir Starmer (not pictured) at Number 10 Downing Street in London, Britain, March 31, 2025. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/Pool
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Kremlin Says Putin Open to Normalizing Ties with Finland if Helsinki Wants to Rebuild Ties

Finnish President Alexander Stubb meets with British Prime Minster Keir Starmer (not pictured) at Number 10 Downing Street in London, Britain, March 31, 2025. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/Pool
Finnish President Alexander Stubb meets with British Prime Minster Keir Starmer (not pictured) at Number 10 Downing Street in London, Britain, March 31, 2025. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/Pool

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that President Vladimir Putin was open to normalizing relations with Finland, which his spokesman Dmitry Peskov said were in a "sad state," if Helsinki wanted to rebuild ties.

Finnish President Alexander Stubb told his British counterpart Keir Starmer on Monday that Helsinki needs to "mentally prepare" for the restoration of ties with Russia, Reuters reported.

Finland, which shares a 1,300-km (800-mile) border with Russia, joined the NATO military alliance in 2023, which Moscow cast at the time as a dangerous historic mistake.