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Evacuation flights resume at Kabul airport as Biden defends US withdrawal

Men try to get inside Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. [Reuters]

Military flights evacuating diplomats and civilians from Afghanistan resumed early on Tuesday after the runway at Kabul airport was cleared of thousands of people desperate to flee after the Taliban seized the capital.

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