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US airlifts 1,700 people from Kabul on Sunday
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 23 (ANI): The United States airlifted 1,700 people from the Kabul Airport in Afghanistan on Sunday, a White House official said.
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Biden says US mulling to extend Afghanistan evacuation mission
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], August 23 (ANI): US President Joe Biden on Sunday said he is in discussions with his military officials regarding the extension of the evacuation mission in Afghanistan, beyond the August 31 deadline.
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Allow safe evacuation of civilians from Afghanistan, says OIC
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Jeddah [Saudi Arabia], August 23 (ANI): The 57-member Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has expressed concern about the ongoing situation in Afghanistan and underscored the importance of cooperation in facilitating the safe evacuation of civilians wishing to leave the war-ravaged cou
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Afghan woman gives birth to 'baby girl' onboard US evacuation flight
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], August 23 (ANI): An Afghan woman on Saturday gave birth to a "baby girl" onboard a US evacuation flight upon landing at a US airbase in Germany.
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US airlines to assist Afghan evacuation
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], August 23 (ANI): US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin ordered US airlines to provide 18 aircraft to support evacuation missions from Afghanistan, the Pentagon informed on Sunday.
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US must plan evacuation of Afghan journalists: RSF
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Paris [France], August 23 (ANI): Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on US President Joe Biden to draw a special plan for evacuating endangered Afghan journalists and human rights defenders.
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Blinken speaks to Bahraini Foreign Minister, says US grateful for safe eva
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 22 (ANI): Secretary of State Antony J Blinken on Sunday spoke to Bahraini Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani and expressed gratitude for Bahrain's humanitarian support to facilitate the safe transit of US citizens and evacuees from Afgh
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Second batch of 146 Indian nationals evacuated from Afghanistan to Doha, t
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Doha [Qatar], August 22 (ANI): The second batch of 146 Indian nationals who were evacuated from Afghanistan to Doha is being repatriated to India today.
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Lebanon thanks India for evacuating its citizen from Afghanistan
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Beirut [Lebanon], August 22 (ANI): Lebanon's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants on Sunday expressed its gratitude to India for evacuating one of its citizens from the violence-marred Afghanistan.
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Afghan envoy Mamundzay appreciates words of sympathy, support messages fro
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 22 (ANI): Afghanistan Ambassador to India, Farid Mamundzay on Sunday appreciated the kind words of sympathy and support messages from all Indian friends and the diplomatic missions in New Delhi over the suffering of Afghans in the past few weeks, after the Taliba
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India a safe haven, Afghan evacuees are reluctant to return
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 22 (ANI): After experiencing days of terror that gripped Afghanistan after the Taliban overtook the country, Afghans who landed in India after being evacuated have expressed their unwillingness to return to their home country.
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Video of adorable baby, who landed in India on flight from Kabul, captures
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 22 (ANI): Among the evacuees from Afghanistan who landed at the Hindon airbase in Ghaziabad on Sunday were at least two infants and several children.
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