Foreign U.N. Staff Begins Evacuating
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The United Nations began pulling its foreign staff out of Afghanistan, and the mothers of two detained American women were to leave as well amid fears that terrorist attacks in the United States could prompt retaliatory strikes.
The world body said it was temporarily moving its international staff out of Afghanistan “due to circumstances prevailing internationally.”
The relocation was expected to be completed by today, according to a U.N. statement issued in Geneva. It said that up to 80 international employees have been located in six Afghan cities.
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