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Images show Khartoum International Airport in a state of seeming calm as the fragile 72-hour ceasefire agreed by Sudan's warring parties holds. The halt in fighting was brokered by the United States, and has provided the opportunity for many countries to conduct the evacuation of nationals. Since April 15, deadly fighting has pitted the paramilitaries of General Mohamed Hamdane Daglo’s Rapid Support Forces (FSR) against the regular army of General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane, with UN agencies reporting that at least 459 people have been killed and more than 4,000 wounded so far. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron meets with his Algerian counterpart Abdelmadjid Tebboune upon his arrival in Algiers' Houari Boumediene Airport for a three-day visit aimed at mending ties with the former French colony. IMAGES
Lawrence, Sep 11 (EFE/EPA).- The body of fallen United States Marine Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo killed in Kabul airport attack returned home for a funeral Saturday.Pichardo, along with 10 fellow Marines, a US Navy corpsman and a US Army soldier, were all killed when a suicide bomber detonated in a crowd that were attempting to evacuate at Abbey Gate of Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Camera: CJ GUNTHER).SHOT LIST: MARINE CORPS FUNERAL HONORS CEREMONY FOR UNITED STATES MARINE SGT. JOHANNY ROSARIO PICHARDO WHO WAS KILLED IN KABUL AIRPORT ATTACK, IN LAWRENCE, MASSACHUSETTS, US.
Passengers board a Qatar Airways passenger aircraft that arrived at the Kabul airport's tarmac Friday afternoon, the second flight set to take off after the resumption of evacuation flights on Thursday. IMAGES
A Qatar Airways passenger aircraft arrived at Kabul's airport Friday afternoon after the resumption of evacuation flights on Thursday, with the first 100 passengers arriving at Doha. IMAGES
A Qatar Airways plane carrying passengers from Kabul arrives at Hamad International Airport in Doha, on the first flight carrying foreigners out of the Afghan capital since a US-led evacuation ended on August 30. IMAGES