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Some 245 French and foreign nationals evacuated from Sudan land at Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle airport in a plane chartered by the French authorities. IMAGES
Kabul residents disembark from an air force plane at a Royal Air Force airfield in Brize Norton, southern England, after being evacuated from Afghanistan. IMAGES
A UK military plane lands in Brize Norton with evacuees from Afghanistan onboard. The Taliban took effective control of the country Sunday when president Ashraf Ghani fled and the insurgents walked into Kabul with no opposition. It capped a staggeringly fast rout of Afghanistan's major cities in just 10 days, achieved with relatively little bloodshed, following two decades of war that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. IMAGES
A plane lands on the tarmac at Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle airport with the first 45 people exfiltrated from Kabul by France on board. IMAGES
The plane of Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia has landed at the Madrid military airport in Torrejon de Ardoz, Spain. Gonzalez has been granted political asylum, after a month in hiding in the crisis-hit South American country. IMAGES
Supporters of Zambian President Lungu hold a rally in Lusaka during a tense presidential race, which has been marked by clashes between rival supporters. The presidential election will take place on Thursday. IMAGES.