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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
A group of Afghan evacuees, among which are several athletes, arrive in Doha on a Qatar Airways flight, the latest in a series of evacuations from Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover in August. 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 ship carrying hundreds of evacuees from Sudan arrives in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Multiple nations scramble to evacuate embassy staff and citizens by road, air and sea from chaos-torn Sudan, where fighting between the army and paramilitaries has killed hundreds. IMAGES
The coffin of actor Jean-Paul Belmondo arrives at the Saint-Germain-des-Prés church in Paris. 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.