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Nearly a week after the fall of Kabul to Taliban forces, the US and other Western countries are still evacuating their citizens from Hamid Karzai International Airport, which remains the only lifeline between Kabul and the West. After thousands of desperate Afghans stormed the runway and attempted to get aboard …

On Thursday, panic descended on Capitol Hill, Washington as staff were told to evacuate buildings and reports emerged that police were investigating a possible explosive device in a pickup truck. In a tweet, US Capitol Police said they were “responding to a suspicious vehicle near the Library of Congress” and …

At least two CH-47 Chinook tandem rotor heavy transport helicopter has been spotted at the compound, making the footage seem eerily similar to that shot in South Vietnam in April 1975, amid the hasty evacuation of US diplomatic staff as the capital city of Saigon fell. Back then, helicopters of …

“We must evacuate our Afghan friends and allies immediately,” the lawmakers told Biden in a letter spearheaded by Seth Moulton, a Democrat from Massachusetts. It would be a moral failure to transfer the responsibility to protect our Afghan partners onto the shoulders of the Afghan government. The US forces have …

Some 16,000 people living in the vicinity of the La Soufriere volcano in the so-called “red zone” will be evacuated, either to safer parts of the island or to a cruise ship, the authorities announced Thursday. While the volcano has shown seismic activity since December 2020, in the past few …

Rescuers from the fire department have finished the operation at the Qingshui Tunnel in Hualien county, evacuating all people trapped inside it following the incident on Friday morning. It reported a total of 48 deaths in the disaster, including the train’s driver. One of the fatalities was reportedly pronounced dead …

Tourists were evacuated from the world-famous palace in Agra on Thursday morning following the anonymous bomb tip. A search operation was launched. The police said the man who called claimed he was somehow wronged during a military recruitment process and planted a bomb in the Taj Mahal. The Indian authorities …

A crowd of protesters flocked to the store on Monday to denounce its decision to distribute a book by a local author, conservative journalist Andy Ngo, known for documenting and highlighting instances of violence associated with Antifa on social media. The owners were forced to evacuate employees and customers out …

The fire covered almost the entire 7th floor. The inspectors helped rescuers evacuate residents from houses on the street Serge Lifar, where inadequate torched the place. It is established that the arson of the apartment were involved in the ex-husband of the mistress of housing. He set fire to the …

As of Friday evening, 23 000 people were left without power. In South Albania the continuous rains led to heavy flooding, several rivers overflowed, some regions conducted the evacuation of residents. The Ministry of defence of Albania reported that in the last days evacuated more than 100 families living near …