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A civilian charter flight arrives at a Midlands airport from Kabul carrying eligible Afghans under the Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy Programme and British Nationals who were based in Afghanistan. IMAGES
Civilians, among them British nationals and Afghan civilians eligible under the UK's Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy (ARAP) are evacuated by the British Army in Kabul. IMAGES
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken tells reporters that the US has opened its special immigrant visa program to 8,000 more Afghans, expanding the eligibility of refugee admissions beyond the roughly 20,000 Afghans who have applied under a program for interpreters who assisted US forces and diplomats. SOUNDBITE
US State Department spokesman Ned Price announces during his press briefing that the United States will use a military base in Virginia to temporarily house Afghan interpreters fleeing their home country, due to the withdrawal of US forces after 20 years of war. SOUNDBITE
The body of Tetsu Nakamura, a beloved Japanese doctor who was shot to death in Afghanistan after decades of his earnest support for the country, arrives back in Japan. IMAGES
UK leader Rishi Sunak arrives in Warsaw for talks with Polish premier Donald Tusk and NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg that will focus on Ukraine and wider European security. While in Poland's capital, the British prime minister will announce £500 million ($617 million) in additional military funding for Kyiv in its more-than two-year battle against Russia's full-scale invasion, according to his Downing Street office. IMAGES
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