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8/28/2021 6:39:28 PM
Evacuations are planned jointly with Qatar and may involve "airlift operations", Macron said after a summit in Baghdad, adding that France had evacuated 2,834 people from Afghanistan since August 17
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8/28/2021 3:56:46 PM
More than 100,000 people have been safely evacuated through the Kabul airport, according to the US, but thousands more are struggling to leave and may not make it out by Tuesday
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8/26/2021 8:32:55 PM
Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said that, in all, Germany evacuated 5,347 people from at least 45 nations, including more than 4,000 Afghans
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8/26/2021 2:24:50 PM
The first Turkish troops evacuated from Afghanistan arrived back in Turkey on Thursday
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8/26/2021 9:10:00 AM
Meanwhile, France's prime minister says his country will no longer be able to evacuate people from Kabul airport after Friday night
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8/23/2021 10:51:28 PM
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told reporters that the White House believes it can get all Americans out by the deadline -- but insisted the large majority of those being evacuated each day were Afghan nationals
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8/23/2021 10:15:15 PM
France is seeking to evacuate more than 1,000 Afghans who are fleeing the country following the Taliban's lightning takeover a week ago, one of a number of nations scrambling to pull out vulnerable individuals
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8/23/2021 5:18:21 PM
Genereal Eberhard Zorn said Monday the figure has declined from about 7,000 at the weekend. He says: 'We are now trying internationally to reduce this number as far as possible to make room for others'
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8/23/2021 3:35:23 PM
Scores of firefighters battled to contain two new wildfires in Greece on Monday, as winds fanned the blazes and forced several villages and neighbourhoods to be evacuated
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8/23/2021 12:51:30 PM
This was the latest episode in a chaotic operation overseen by the US army that has seen about 30,000 people evacuated from Afghanistan since the Taliban marched into Kabul on August 15
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8/22/2021 4:13:00 PM
Tens of thousands of Afghans were racing Sunday to flee their country as the US warned of security threats at Kabul's chaotic airport and the EU said it was "impossible" to evacuate everyone at risk from the Taliban
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8/22/2021 1:23:42 PM
Residents and visitors on Fire Island were urged to evacuate
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8/21/2021 9:27:13 PM
Qatar and the nearby United Arab Emirates have been instrumental staging posts for evacuation flights for Western countries' citizens as well as Afghan interpreters, journalists and others
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8/21/2021 4:19:00 PM
France's says it has evacuated over 570 people, including at least 407 Afghan citizens, from Kabul onboard its military aircraft since Monday
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8/21/2021 9:50:00 AM
Tens of thousands of people in Afghanistan waited nervously to see whether the US would deliver on Biden's new pledge to evacuate all Americans and all Afghans who aided the war effort
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8/20/2021 3:27:11 PM
Tens of thousands of people remain to be evacuated ahead of the United States' Aug. 31 deadline to withdraw its troops from the country
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8/20/2021 12:57:45 PM
It is unclear exactly where the line is being drawn and how many Afghan nationals Western nations will be able to evacuate
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8/19/2021 11:24:27 PM
Kirby said the military has aircraft available to evacuate 5,000 to 9,000 people per day, but until Thursday far fewer designated evacuees had been able to reach
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8/17/2021 6:37:58 PM
Intense heat and wildfires have also struck countries around southern Europe and North Africa in recent weeks, with fires killing at least 75 people in Algeria and 16 in Turkey
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8/16/2021 2:40:16 PM
Three settlements in the area were ordered evacuated, while the fire department sent dozens of firefighters, as well as six water-dropping planes and four helicopters. Local officials appealed to people not to approach the area
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