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As the UK winds up its operation to airlift civilians ahead of the August 31 deadline for US troop withdrawal as Taliban forces prepare to take over the airport, British ambassador to Afghanistan Laurie Bristow says nearly 15,000 British nationals, Afghan staff and others at risk have been evacuated from Kabul since "Operation Pitting" began. Britain hasn't "forgotten the brave, decent people of Afghanistan," Bristow says as British troops prepare to pull out, leaving several hundred Afghans otherwise eligible to fly to the UK behind. SOUNDBITE
The number of people in the UK that have died from coronavirus has risen by 888, taking the country's death toll to 15,464, says minister Robert Jenrick. SOUNDBITE
Mothers of some of Mexico's nearly 100,000 missing people gather in Mexico City to protest on Mother's Day. IMAGES
During a UN press briefing, UNICEF's senior emergency coordinator, Hamish Young, says that "Over 14,000 children have reportedly already been killed in this conflict" while over 100,000 people have fled Rafah in recent days, according to the head of OCHA's sub-office in Gaza. SOUNDBITE
During a UN press briefing, Georgios Petropoulos, the head of the OCHA sub-office in Gaza speaking from Rafah says that more than 100,000 people have fled Rafah. SOUNDBITE
Paraguayan police seizes 3,312 kilos of cocaine stashed in rice bags, bound from South America to Europe. The shipment is valued at 1.4 billion US dollars. IMAGES
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