German officials speaking with Taliban representatives in Qatar, also engaged with int’l partners, says Foreign Ministry
Evacuations
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Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan ‘bitter reality’ but dialogue must be to preserve achievements of last 20 years: Merkel.
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Russia is evacuating more than 500 people from Afghanistan, including Russian and other citizens on Wednesday (Aug.25).
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A view from Hamid Karzai International Airport after Russian planes landed on August 25, 2021 in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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Afghans who worked with country’s embassy, organizations will be brought to South Korea as ‘persons of special merit’.
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SOUTH ASIA
Turkish foreign minister, US counterpart discuss latest developments in Afghanistan
by Sami BurgazMevlut Cavusoglu, Antony Blinken speak by phone on ‘continuing cooperation’ in Afghanistan, ‘orderly evacuation’ of people.
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Jens Stoltenberg says hundreds of NATO staff, contractors provide logistics, communications at airport.
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Thousands of people, including women and children, rushed to Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghan capital Kabul, hoping to be evacuated in the wake of the Taliban’s takeover of the war-torn country after 20 years.
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‘Any of them that want to leave, and we have to assume that’s all of them, they will be evacuated,’ says Pentagon.
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The Taliban on Tuesday (Aug. 24) said the group does not intend to extend the Aug. 31 deadline for the exit of foreign forces from Afghanistan.