Category: evacuees

Another 21 Americans Evacuate Kabul via Charter Flight: US State Department

September 20, 2021
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More than 20 Americans were on board a Qatar Airways flight from Afghanistan to Doha on Sept. 19 and have safely evacuated the Taliban-controlled country, the U.S. State Department confirmed on Monday. “We can confirm that a Qatar Airways flight departed from Kabul … with 21 U.S. citizens and 48 lawful permanent residents on board,”…

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Hurricane Ida Evacuees Urged to Return to New Orleans

September 4, 2021
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NEW ORLEANS—With power due back for almost all of New Orleans by next week, Mayor LaToya Cantrell strongly encouraged residents who evacuated because of Hurricane Ida to begin returning home. But outside the city, the prospects of recovery appeared bleaker, with no timeline on power restoration and homes and businesses in tatters. Six days after…

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Evacuees Urged Not to Return Home After Devastation From Storm Ida

September 1, 2021
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NEW ORLEANS—Evacuees who fled Ida before the storm hammered southern Louisiana are being urged not to return home just yet as the long, arduous recovery is only beginning from one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the U.S. Gulf Coast. Three days after the Category 4 hurricane came ashore, more than a million…

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Last German Flight With Afghan Evacuees Lands in Frankfurt

August 27, 2021
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FRANKFURT—The last German civilian plane carrying Afghans fleeing Taliban rule landed in Frankfurt on Friday, a day after the country’s armed forces said they had finished their evacuation operation at Kabul airport. The final German military aircraft carrying soldiers and German and Afghan civilians left Kabul for Tashkent on Thursday. An Afghan student who was…

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