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A charter plane carrying evacuees from the Chinese city at the centre of the deadly novel coronavirus outbreak lands at an RAF base in Britain. The flight touched down at Royal Air Force base Brize Norton, in Oxfordshire, south central England, shortly after 1:30 pm (1330 GMT), with 83 British citizens and 27 others on board. IMAGES
Evacuees from Sudan disembark from an RAF plane following their arrival at Larnaca International Airport. Around 4,000 Britons with dual nationality and 400 with UK-only passports are in Sudan, according to the British government. IMAGES
A plane thought to be the one bound for Kigali as part of the UK government's controversial policy to send asylum seekers to Rwanda waits at the Boscombe Down military air field. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss insisted the first flight to Kigali, believed to be operated by Spanish charter firm Privilege Style, would take off, no matter how many people were on board. Only seven people are now due to be deported because of legal challenges and reviews of their cases -- well down on the 130 initially envisaged by the authorities. IMAGES
Afghan evacuees arrive at the military airport of Torrejon de Ardoz, in Spain. Spain has warnted that it will not be able to rescue all Afghans who served alongside its troops in Afghanistan because of the "dramatic" situation on the ground. IMAGES
Evacuees from Afghanistan disembark from a UK military plane which landed in Brize Norton. The Taliban took effective control of the country Sunday when president Ashraf Ghani fled and the insurgents walked into Kabul with no opposition. It capped a staggeringly fast rout of Afghanistan's major cities in just 10 days, achieved with relatively little bloodshed, following two decades of war that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. IMAGES
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