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The massive IT outage, caused when systems running Microsoft Windows crashed, have disrupted air travel around the world including the United States. In Milawaukee, crowds of travelers stand in long lines as they wait to get flight information. IMAGES
The EU's top foreign policy official Josep Borrell calls for an extension of the truce in the Gaza Strip, which is due to end on Tuesday. "The pause should be extended to make it sustainable and long lasting while working for a political solution," he says on Monday, at the start of a meeting of the Union for the Mediterranean in Barcelona. The pause in fighting is the first since the October 7 attack in which Hamas gunmen killed 1,200 people in Israel and took 240 hostages. Israel's response, a sustained air and ground campaign in the Gaza Strip, has killed nearly 15,000 people, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. SOUNDBITE
A Qatar Airways passenger aircraft arrived at Kabul's airport Friday afternoon after the resumption of evacuation flights on Thursday, with the first 100 passengers arriving at Doha. IMAGES
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg says in an interview with AFP that it is 'essential' to keep Kabul airport open to 'get people out'. 'We will not forget them,' he says. SOUNDBITE
Afghans in Kabul queue outside banks on Tuesday morning. The last of the 6,000 US troops who oversaw a desperate evacuation effort flew out of Kabul airport on Monday night, ending the war that has diminished the United States' status as a superpower. IMAGES
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