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8/28/2021 7:32:17 PM
"We have lists from the Americans... if your name is on the list, you can come through," one Taliban official told AFP near the civilian passenger terminal of Hamid Karzai International Airport.
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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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8/28/2021 3:15:15 PM
The UK military says further flights over the weekend will bring home British troops and diplomats, though they may also carry some remaining UK or Afghan civilians
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8/28/2021 2:46:27 PM
Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and Defense Minister Florence Parly announced that evacuations drew to a close with nearly 3,000 transferred out of Afghanistan
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8/27/2021 2:36:10 PM
Italy's foreign minister has confirmed that the last Italian military flight evacuating people from Afghanistan will depart from Kabul later on Friday
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8/27/2021 2:25:12 PM
New Zealand says it was not able to get everybody it wanted out of Afghanistan in time before the deadly attacks near Kabul’s airport brought its rescue mission to an end
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8/27/2021 12:02:58 PM
Evacuation flights from Afghanistan resumed with new urgency on Friday, a day after two suicide bombings targeted the thousands of desperate people fleeing the Taliban takeover and killed more than 100
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8/27/2021 1:02:00 AM
Biden, who earlier vowed to continue the evacuation of civilians from Kabul, said there remained an "opportunity for the next several days, between now and the 31st, to be able to get them out."
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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 6:25:21 PM
NATO's chief described the attack as a "horrific terrorist" one
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8/26/2021 5:54:48 PM
The official says evacuation flights have continued to take off from Kabul airport in the waning days of an airlift to help people flee the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan
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8/26/2021 4:39:00 PM
The British, French and Danish militaries had given stark warnings about the security situation at the Kabul airport
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8/26/2021 4:27:00 PM
Adam Khan says some people appeared to be missing body parts. He says he was about 30 meters (yards) from Thursday's blast
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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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8/25/2021 10:27:26 AM
Teams of medical workers will be present on each plane, the ministry said, should any of the evacuees require medical attention
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8/25/2021 10:27:02 AM
Biden was adamant that the risk of terror attacks was too great to accede to appeals from G-7 leaders to keep 5,800 American troops at Kabul's airport beyond the end of the month
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8/24/2021 1:38:42 PM
The UK will chair the emergency talks among the group of wealthy countries later Tuesday, and has said it will urge the United States to extend the end-of-the-month deadline to complete the Afghan airlifts
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8/24/2021 11:16:38 AM
About 50,000 foreigners and Afghans have fled the country from Kabul's airport since the Taliban swept into power 10 days ago, according to the US government
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