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US State Department spokesperson Ned Price confirms that the first evacuation flight from Kabul since the US-led evacuation ended on August 30 has successfully landed in Doha, Qatar. SOUNDBITE
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
A charter flight arrives at a Belgian air base outside Brussels carrying 193 people escaping the chaos in Kabul. The Air Belgium jet brought the escapees, including Belgians and Afghans who worked for international missions, from an Islamabad base acting as a staging post for Belgium's military airlift from the Afghan capital. IMAGES
South African Health Minister Zweli Mkhize says that the South African nationals stuck in Wuhan are "fine" and are expected to be flown back home "before the weekend is over." SOUNDBITE
The second plane chartered by France carrying 250 people, including 65 French people from Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus epidemic in China, lands at a French military base in Istres, near Marseille. IMAGES