UK's Kabul evacuation going at 'significant pace'

A little more now on the UK's operation to evacuate people from Afghanistan.

As we reported earlier, around 1,200 people had been evacuated by the UK in the last 12 hours, as of 18:00 BST on Wednesday,

The UK is rushing to evacuate British nationals, as well as Afghans who worked for the UK and other vulnerable individuals, out of Kabul airport.

A 31 August deadline is in place for foreign troops to leave the country.

US President Joe Biden rejected calls from UK PM Boris Johnson and other allies to delay his withdrawal date for the remaining American troops past August.

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