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French President Emmanuel Macron says he wants French nationals evacuated 'as quickly as possible' from the Gaza Strip, which is under heavy bombardment by Israel. SOUNDBITE
Equipped with inflatable boats, Ukrainian military and police forces evacuate Kherson residents from the flooded areas of the city, following the collapse of Russian-held Kakhovka dam in the Kherson region. Ukraine is evacuating thousands after the dam's destruction unleashed a torrent of water, inundating two dozen villages and the city of Kherson. Both Moscow and Kyiv blame each other for the incident. IMAGES
More than 1,000 European Union citizens were evacuated from conflict-hit Sudan over the weekend, the bloc's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says. "It has been a complex operation and it has been a successful operation," Borrell tells journalists. SOUNDBITE
Seedorf (Germany), Sep 22 (EFE / EPA).- (Camera: Friedemann Vogel) The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, attended on Monday the tribute to the soldiers of the Kabul evacuation mission that was carried out in the headquarters of paratroopers in Seedorf in northern Germany. The airlift between the Afghan capital, Kabul, and the Uzbek city of Tashkent, was the largest ever carried out for the evacuation mission of the German Armed Forces.FOOTAGE OF THE TRIBUTE TO THE MISSION OF THE GERMAN ARMED FORCES THAT CARRIED OUT THE EVACUATION OF CIVILIANS FROM KABUL TO TASHKENT, AFTER THE TALIBAN TAKE OF POWER.
As the UK winds up its operation to airlift civilians ahead of the August 31 deadline for US troop withdrawal as Taliban forces prepare to take over the airport, British ambassador to Afghanistan Laurie Bristow says nearly 15,000 British nationals, Afghan staff and others at risk have been evacuated from Kabul since "Operation Pitting" began. Britain hasn't "forgotten the brave, decent people of Afghanistan," Bristow says as British troops prepare to pull out, leaving several hundred Afghans otherwise eligible to fly to the UK behind. SOUNDBITE