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Evacuees from Sudan board a bus after disembarking from a British Royal Air Force military transport at Larnaca airport in Cyprus. Multiple nations have scrambled to evacuate embassy staff and citizens by road, air and sea from chaos-torn Sudan, where fighting between the army and paramilitaries has killed hundreds. IMAGES
A group of Afghan athletes board a Qatar airways flight heading to Doha, the latest in a series of evacuations from Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover in August. IMAGES
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
The commander of American military forces on the ground in Afghanistan and Washington's ambassador there were the last to board the final evacuation flight from Kabul on Monday, says the head of US Central Command. "On the last airplane out was General Chris Donahue, the commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, and my ground force commander there," Marine Corps General Kenneth McKenzie tells reporters at the Pentagon, "and he was accompanied by our Charge A (Charge d'Affaires, ed), Ambassador Ross Wilson, so they came out together." SOUNDBITE
Montevideo, Apr 15 (EFE).- The last 14 passengers remaining on the cruise ship Greg Mortimer, stranded off the Uruguayan coasts as it was affected by coronavirus, on Wednesday boarded a repatriation flight back to the US.(Camera: ALEJANDRO PRIETO).FOOTAGE SHOWS PASSENGERS FROM GREG MORTIMER CRUISE BOARDING A REPATRIATION FLIGHT AT THE CARRASCO AIRPORT, IN MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY.