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Nicosia (AFP) - A first group of evacuees from Israel arrived in Cyprus on Tuesday aboard a US-chartered cruise ship as the island's authorities announced plans for a twice-daily ferry link for those wishing to leave. The 159 evacuees on board the Royal Caribbean cruise ship Rhapsody of the Sea primarily consisted of elderly individuals, families with children and tourists. The ship, which left the port of Haifa in northern Israel, docked at around 6:15 am (0315 GMT) in the island's second city Limassol. Security was tight with armed police and sniffer dogs. US ambassador Julie Fisher was at ...
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Washington (AFP) - The US State Department said Friday that ongoing fighting between military factions in Sudan made it too risky to try to evacuate embassy personnel from Khartoum. The Pentagon has mobilized in the east Africa region to bring out US staff from the Sudan capital. However, "due to the uncertain security situation in Khartoum and the closure of the airport, it's currently not safe to undertake a US government coordinated evac," said State Department spokesman Vedant Patel. The State Department has sought to gather US staff in one location in the Sudan capital to better protect t...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Capitol was briefly evacuated Wednesday after authorities sounded a threat alarm over a harmless parachute stunt, prompting top lawmaker Nancy Pelosi to blast aviation officials for an "inexcusable" failure. Police tasked with protecting the complex at the heart of US government in Washington issued an initial statement shortly after 6:30 pm (2230 GMT) saying they had ordered an evacuation as they were "tracking an aircraft that poses a probable threat." They did not give further details. But it turned out the mini-crisis was triggered by a pre-planned flyover at near...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Capitol was briefly evacuated Wednesday after a false alarm saw police tracking an aircraft they said was a "probable threat" -- but reportedly turned out to be carrying parachutists as part of a baseball pregame show. Police tasked with protecting the complex at the heart of US government in Washington issued an initial statement shortly after 6:30 pm (2230 GMT) saying they had ordered an evacuation as they were "tracking an aircraft that poses a probable threat." They did not give further details. The news became a top headline within minutes in the United States, w...
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Washington (AFP) - An attack that killed at least 173 people including 13 US service members during the chaotic Kabul airport evacuation last year was undertaken by a single suicide bomber, a Pentagon investigation concluded Friday. The investigation ruled out more than one perpetrator or anyone using firearms in the August 26 attack, which was claimed by the Islamic State group. At least 160 Afghan civilians and the 13 US troops were killed by the bombing, which came during the final days of the US military's withdrawal after two decades of war, according to the investigation. The bomb explo...
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Washington (AFP) - Afghanistan's harsh winter will create new difficulties for people wishing to leave with the Kabul airport still in disrepair, a US official warned Monday. Thomas West, the US pointman on Afghanistan, said that the Taliban still has largely made good on promises to let US citizens and US long-term residents leave if they so choose after the insurgents' overthrow of the Western-backed government. "I think the real challenge we face," West told reporters, "is potentially logistical especially as we head into the winter months." "Many runway lights are damaged and not functioni...
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Washington (AFP) - An interpreter who helped rescue US President Joe Biden in a 2008 Afghan snowstorm has escaped Afghanistan with his family after hiding from the Taliban for weeks, the State Department confirmed Monday. After crossing into Pakistan over land, Aman Khalili and his family flew on a US government aircraft to Doha, Qatar, where thousands of refugees from Afghanistan are being processed by US officials for immigration, a State Department spokesperson told AFP. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier that Khalili, his wife and five children, who were unable to flee in the August ...
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Washington (AFP) - A top general admitted the United States had made a "mistake" when it launched a drone strike against suspected Islamic State militants in Kabul, killing 10 civilians including children instead during the frenzied final days of the US pullout from Afghanistan last month. The strike, a macabre coda to the 20-year US war in Afghanistan, was meant to target a suspected IS operation that US intelligence had "reasonable certainty" aimed to attack the Kabul airport, said US Central Command commander General Kenneth McKenzie. "The strike was a tragic mistake," McKenzie told reporte...
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Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden has promised to do everything in his power to rescue Americans stranded in Afghanistan and fearful of violent Taliban reprisals following the US military withdrawal. But limited resources and diminished political leverage have opened the way for evacuation missions led by Republican politicians, former military personnel and private organizations that risk embarrassing the White House. The United States managed to airlift more than 120,000 US citizens, Afghans and foreigners since the Taliban's lightning takeover on August 15 -- but hundreds were left be...
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Washington (AFP) - An interpreter who helped rescue US President Joe Biden in a 2008 Afghan snowstorm is in hiding after failing to join the Kabul evacuation airlift, according to the Wall Street Journal. Then senator Biden and two other lawmakers were visiting Afghanistan when a snowstorm forced their helicopter to land in a remote area, the Journal reported on Tuesday. The interpreter, only named in the newspaper as "Mohammed" to protect his identity, was working regularly for the US Army at the time, taking part in combat missions. Amid concern that Biden and the two other senior senators,...
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